In most cases (for me at least) 0xc0000005 emitted by the VS debugger gives a pretty good indication of the source in the code of the invalid memory write. YMMV. 🙂
Yeah it’s a funny one, pathing back then was limited by issues such as 8.3 filenames and the like, so I think Dave was motivated by dealing with the “root” path for Morrowind, and not worrying about anything else. Fortunately, things have moved on since then. 🙂
Sounds an interesting range of options. 🙂
