Morrowind Issues

[jimbojones1013]

I have had Morrowind for a long time(it came bundled with an old video card) but never tried it. With all of the recent attention to Oblivion, I figured before I dropped the cash on it I would see how I liked the one I have.

I installed it last night and booted it up. The intro video, as well as the load screen, was very slow and seemed to be running at an extremely low framerate. I dl'd the latest patch and that didn't seem to clear it up either.

Does anyone remember ever running into a problem like this and its solution?

I have a +2500, Asus a7n8x, 1.5 gb of pc2700, Asus 6800XT.

 

[kurt454]

I originally played the game on a system with a geforce3 in it. The newer video card drivers may not like that old of a game.

 

[General Crespin]

I've been playing Morrowind on an X2 4400+, 2GB RAM, 7800 GTX (84.25 drivers) and it's running smooth as silk (finally! ).

You say the intro video and load screen are slow. What about the game itself?

Are you running any mods? What about the expansions? If you don't have the expansions you really should get them, they include bug fixes and general game enhancements for Morrowind as well.

For the record, I saw someone say somewhere (basically): "it seems like people who hated Morrowind love Oblivion and people who loved Morrowind are 'meh' about Oblivion", and I think that's basically right. Oblivion is not very similar to Morrowind except for the basics (as well as the world/lore).

 

[WhyYouLoveMe]

For the record, I saw someone say somewhere (basically): "it seems like people who hated Morrowind love Oblivion and people who loved Morrowind are 'meh' about Oblivion", and I think that's basically right. Oblivion is not very similar to Morrowind except for the basics (as well as the world/lore).

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Interesting you say that because I'm exactly that. I hated Morrowind but I love Oblivion.

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I can't offer any advice.

 

[General Crespin]

<off topic>Yeah, I'm the opposite. I love (-d ) Morrowind, but so many things in Oblivion just make me go "WTF?" (Don't get me wrong, Oblivion does many things right, but many things wrong as well.)</off topic>

 

[jstnomega]

OP - anything by Bethesda has unresolved issues. Try an uninstall/reinstall of MW & see if that takes care of it. It is a dog but I had a satisfactory experience running MW on P4 Willamette at 1.7 ghz & 1/2 gig RDRAM (a dog in its own right), OK w/a GF2 64meg MX440, pretty water w/a GF3 ti200.

 

[halc998]

I would believe the problem lies in your driver choice, and your 6800xt. Grab newer drivers, and defrag as a first suggestion, if no go, then consider an upgrade.

 

[Xilikon]

<off topic>Yeah, I'm the opposite. I love (-d ) Morrowind, but so many things in Oblivion just make me go "WTF?" (Don't get me wrong, Oblivion does many things right, but many things wrong as well.)</off topic>

Yeah, myself, I loved Oblivion and never played Morrowing. I have a friend who are a fan of the ES series and after playing Morrowind, Oblivion is like "meh" for him