Megair on 7/11/2002 at 00:19
I just bought Morrwind for the comp (as opposed to Xbox) and it worked fine, albiet a little bit laggy. Then I put a bunch of mods in my morrowind directory and now when it finishes the beginning load part it just crashes to the desktop. Please help the expansion is comeing soon and I really want to play.
Skronk on 7/11/2002 at 00:33
Without quoting you, you answered your own question. ;) One or more of the mods must be bugged. Remove or deselect one at a time in the options menu (available when you launch) until you find the culprit(s).
BTW, how many is 'a bunch'?
Megair on 7/11/2002 at 01:10
7 mods
Skronk on 7/11/2002 at 01:33
Ah, that's not so bad, I thought it would be like 20 or more. ;)
Anyways, you obviously have some non-official mods, I bet one of those is messing up your startup. Aside from finding out which one is the culprit, you could load each one into the editor and then just save it again. There's a possibility that one of the mods was created on a previous patch version. To load a mod, just start the editor, double click the mod file and then click the 'set active file' button. Then just save again. Then load the next mod and repeat. If you still have the crashing problem then you will have to find and remove the offending mod.
Tom-Ice on 17/11/2002 at 19:39
mine crashes all the time and i dont have any mods, its getting very annoying...
EvolGrinZ on 18/11/2002 at 06:19
What might help to stop the crashing is....
Press CTRL + ALT + DEL and shutdown all programs that are running except for 'explorer' and 'systray' then turn off the auto-protect of your antivirus program (if you have one).
It helps for me so it might help for you too.
Anarkos on 18/11/2002 at 09:05
Okay, as you can understand, Morrowind uses a lot of memory, both video and normal. When I first got the game, I running with 256MB of PC2100 DDR and a 32MB GeForce2MX. Crashes were hellish. Then I bought another stick of RAM; total now 512MB across 2 DIMMS. Normally, this would cause less stability for a system, due to the RAM's resistivity. It did; BUT Morrowind crashed less. Then, in September, I acquired a 64MB GF4Ti4200. Morrowind has crashed twice since.
I would estimate that most CTDs in MW come from poor AGP-texturing (where the video card's memory is full so textures are trucked through the AGP bus and dumped on the RAM or abusing/filling Windows' swap file.
Now, short of getting more RAM, what can you do? Piss all, I'm afraid...except, what you already did, right? 1) Close all backround programs. 2) Tweak your RAM's speeds and settings. 3) Use a less resource-heavy OS. (Drop XP to 2k, 2k to 98SE) 4) Enlarge your swap file. 5) Tweak your AGP bus/video card settings. 6) Drop the screen resoultion and the level of detail (which won't do much, as MW can't let you drop polygon/texture detail, so...). 6) Get over it :p
EvolGrinZ on 18/11/2002 at 11:28
Morrowind only crashes with me if a kagouti (or something) monster comes too close.
I don't know why........but I mostly shoot them from a real far distance anyway.
Anarkos on 18/11/2002 at 18:46
Another suggestion; turn the music off, switch sound from hardware-software or vice versa.
