[FONT=Courier][SIZE=7][COLOR=yellow]I tried to load a huge amount of mods at the same time in order to have a lot of stuff in the game and I had problems with certains for sure but I found a couple of tricks that most of tweaking maniacs know.

I must say that for such an experience, I needed a huge amount of RAM (2 Gigs); also, those mods had to be compatible to an acceptable level. I found a couple of problems related to some lacunes in Windows (especially Me and XP). Some may say that it is irrelevant but to me it proven to be on the right path.

First, after your first start of the game, it will surely crash; the second time,the third or further, you will have the time to save your game so, DO IT rigth away.

Secondly, this is to be done carefully, you take notepad to load your MORROWIND.INI file and re-arrange those mod titles (with cut and paste) by rank of importance (lands, transport and NPC mods first, Quests and Dwellings second and articles and tools at last). The game will integrate those datas a lot faster and better.

Another thing to do is to add a higher value to the DWORD "IoLockPageLimit" in the register; if this key does not exist, you must provide it, especially for those Intel CPUs. That special must be placed at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Create the DWORD "IoLockPageLimit" first, then, modify the data on this DWORD (at least decimal 65535 translated in Hex format for memories superior to 512 Megs, 32768 for 255 to 512 and so on...).

Restart your machine and presto, (after maybe one or two crashes due to some latency in the regeneration process for some CPUs), it will go like a charm.

I have been able to integrate all episodes of TES 3 plus Sea of Destiny and most of the popular mods available. It went up to 108 mods working all together (naturally to avoid avok with some actors you have to do a little more tweaking of the game but you all know those tricks by now).

Thank's for your attention...

I believe the maximum is 200 mods including Morrowind, Tribunal, Bloodmoon and any other Master files.

this is very enlightening, thankyou, i have been having problems with this kinda thing myself, and you just solved them.

Moved and pinned. Nice work Maroo, thanks a lot. ^^ Definitely pin-worthy.

I know this thread is very old, but this shouldn't be considered thread necromancy...

Here's a howto on packing all of your mods' art into one .bsa file. When you do that, you'll save up some of your disk space, and speed up loading times a bit.

There are two ways to do this. One is to create a .bsa file for each mod you've got and second is to create one big .bsa file with all the mods included. The first way can get really nasty if you have already unpacked you .zips or .rars that you downloaded (because you can't say which file belongs to which mod), so the first method can be used only with freshly downloaded mods, or if you didn't delete the original .zips and .rars after unpacking them.

Before you can use any of the methods, you must have an utility called BSAPack. I even found it for you BSAPack

Also, I recommend you to create a backup of Morrowind.bsa, Tribunal.bsa, Bloodmoon.bsa and Morrowind.ini

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Now, the 1st method:

1. Create a temporary folder wherever you want, but I recommend C:\Temp, not something like C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind\Data Files\Temp because you'll have to use the command prompt, and I guess you don't want to type whole day.

2. Copy BSAPack into the Temp folder.

3. Open the .zip or .rar file and look for BookArt, Fonts, Icons, Meshes, Music, Sound, Splash, Textures and Video (not necessarily all of them, usually there are just Meshes and Textures folders) and unpack them into the Temp folder.

4. Open up the command prompt (click start/run... and type in "cmd" (without the quotes)) and go to your Temp directory (I hope you know how to do it ).

5. Type in "bsapack pack [name of .bsa file you wish to create].bsa (replace [name of .bsa file you wish to create] with the actual name, without the brackets)

6. Copy the newly created .bsa into your Morrowind/Data Files folder.

7. Go to your Morrowind folder and open Morrowind.ini

8. Look for [Archives] section, under the [Level Up] section:

Very interesting post, although it made me wonder 3 things:

- why does it refuse to find the Fonts directory in the bsa I made, when all the rest goes fine ? I had to put it back in the DataFiles directory in order to run the game again. (and rebuild a bsa Fonts-free at the occasion)

- how do you make esm from esp ?
I remember I saw something about that some day, but can't put the and on it again.

- is the bsapack.exe limitation to pack 20000 files 'only' dictated by a morrowind requirement, or can I safely compile a modified version of bsapack to fit my needs (about 25000 files for 1.5go of plugins files)

Thanx for the hint anyway, this kind of perfectionistic (does it mean something in english ?) manipulations suits my temper very well : )

currently I have 41 mods running sum downloaded sum created by me
and they are damn goood!

@bugmenot:

Why? Probably because the game doesn't look for font files in the .bsa file, only in Morrowind/Data Files/Font, or because the only version of BSAPack is 0.1a...

Instructions on how to create .esms have been posted a few times on the Forums already, try searching.

As far as I know, BSAPack can pack archive any type of files in any quantity.



You're welcome.

@Sogenda

Please don't spam, don't post unless you have something to say that'd contribute this topic.

right now i have around 15 mods, but i once had over 260