Evil_Orc on 23/8/2002 at 13:13
help me, i wanted to play morrowind today and everytime it crashes at the menu screen (starting menu) it either freezes or goes black with all green dots everywere :(
it has worked fine for me all the time untill now
can anyone help me fix this problem
thanks :thumb:
Jtldemonseed on 23/8/2002 at 13:59
Take out the disk and wait for the xbox symbol the come up. Then select memory and then go to morrowinds save file. Delete all your games and start new because they might be corupted anyway. Also you could get a cottonball an rub the disk with it to clean it.
Evil_Orc on 23/8/2002 at 15:45
....I...I have the pc version....
thanks anyway :thumb:
Forsythe on 23/8/2002 at 21:34
Assuming you haven't installed anything new, Jtldemonseed's point re: cleaning the disk is a good one; also check if you have any new scratches on the important side of it, and if so then get one of those 'CD buffing' plastic gadgets from your local CompUSA/Best Buy/Fry's Electronics/watever. (small scratches parallell to the tracks can really fubar things)
Evil_Orc on 25/8/2002 at 12:26
nope, not a scratch and it still does it
Forsythe on 25/8/2002 at 18:12
Even when viewed at an angle under a bright light? Bugger... well, I guess you've gotta go through the usual song & dance then. The uninstall/backup saves/delete morrowind dir/reinstall cha-cha sometimes works, and if it doesn't but you can still run other first-person games, then try and remember what you installed recently that may have jinxed it. Good luck :p
Fuzzy on 25/8/2002 at 18:52
i guess by important side you mean the clear one? the side with the acryla is much more important because its the side with the data on it....
Forsythe on 25/8/2002 at 18:57
Yup, that's what I meant ;)
CrushedBeef on 26/8/2002 at 06:20
have you installed any new programs lately?
or done any HDD maintenance (defrags or scandisks)
anything you can think of that you have done during the last time you played it sucessfully.
it may even be a virus
also, if you have virus protection ie nortons, disable it before you play.
it not only slows down ANY game you play, but it can also lead to crashes.
(i had an encounter with nortons making C&C Renegade go absolutely nuts when auto protect was enabled. as soon as i turned it off, no crashes, and a (honestly) 300% increase in loading times)
its a nasty program when it comes to games.
otherwise, backup your savegames, and reinstall the game from scratch.
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Forsythe on 26/8/2002 at 08:33
Just thought of one more thing... depending on their depth, scratches on the painted side can affect a CD's ability to work. I'm not certain about the geometries (if someone knows I'm wrong, correct me?), but I've heard that the data on a CD can be protected by only a fairly thin layer of plastic that's then covered by the paint/decals/whatever. In other words, if you scratch thru the painted side deep enough, it can screw up the data.
