Adept on 22/10/2002 at 04:30
I've come to my last message board. I'm done surfing the web, I'm done e-mailing Bethesda, I'm done with Elderscrolls.com. I thought I'd give TTLG forums a shot before I return this game.
The Problem: After starting a new game, I can play for 1-5 minutes before the video "locks up". Morrowind is still running in the background, as sounds can be heard and menus can be clicked, but all that appears on screen are dozens of duplicate overlapping images. I have made it far enough into the game to save, but loading from a save file produces the same result. I have updated: my video card driver, motherboard driver, soundcard driver, Windows xp service pack 1, the latest Morrowind patch, uninstalled and reinstalled the game, and even flashed my video BIOS with no success.
I'm running Morrowind on a....
AMD Athlon XP 2000
256 MB RAM (PC 2700 DDR)
Gigabyte 7VRX mobo
GeForce 2 400 MX (64 MB)
ESS Allegro sound
Windows XP
Sorry to bug you with this, but I'm at the end of my rope. Any suggestions are welcome.
Lusorius on 22/10/2002 at 18:57
Trying turning the hardware acceleration for video off in Morrowind's settings.
Forsythe on 22/10/2002 at 19:03
Hrm... I take it that getting a better graphics card is out of the question? (Especially a non-MX version...)
Ania on 22/10/2002 at 21:56
My graphics card is only 64 megs and the game works fine. I run it on Windows 98, with a 900mhz Athlon processor and 256 megs of RAM. Could it be the operating system? (this is just a thought; I'm no expert)
Ania
Forsythe on 22/10/2002 at 22:24
Well, it's by no means a certainty that it's the graphics card, I only mentioned that because of how the MX line's chip architechture is usually one generation behind the number it bears (or at least that's how I understand it). For example (again, from what I've heard), the GeForce4 MX is really a spruced-up GeForce3.
ACT SMILEY on 23/10/2002 at 00:12
No, the GF4MX is a GF2GTS with a GF4 memory controller on it. A GF3 is much better than one.
As to the problem, I dunno. Maybe OS, maybe sound, maybe video, I aint got a clue.
