A Very Large Rat on 7/6/2002 at 14:20
greetings, i'm trying to decide whether to buy morrowind or not. the thing i'm puzzling over is whether my computer will run it pleasantly or not.
i currently have:
athlon t-bird 1.0 ghz proc
512 megs pc133 sdram
geforce2 ultra w/ 64megs ram
winXP home
all drivers up to date as of june 3, 2002
what kind of frame rates can i expect with this rig? what about graphics settings? will i have to set them to the minimums? will the game be runnable? will it be enjoyable?
thanks a lot,
Thrangar on 7/6/2002 at 15:31
Having run the game on a Gf2 ultra and then installing a gf4 I would say you need to upgrade at least to a gf3 they are inexpencive now that the 4 is out, other than that youll have the same experience everyone else is having:p
Alamar on 7/6/2002 at 16:18
I think you'll be fine, even without a graphics card upgrade. My specs are similar (1.4GHz chip and GeForce2 MX) and Morrowind runs smooth as ice with maximum view distance and real-time shadows on low. Haven't checked the framerate, but it must be around the 30fps marker.
Oh, be sure to use the No-CD crack (mentioned at the top of this forum). It certainly helps performance.
Mr. K. on 7/6/2002 at 16:20
I've run the game in a GF2MX (256ram, Athlon XP 1800, but that's not important, the MX is such a NARROW bottleneck!) and i got reasonable framerates playing with vision distance maxed, no real shadows at 640x480 (vision distance is VERY important for me, i want to know where am i going/not miss any tomb).
You can play reasonably well with that computer, surely even at 800x600.
I now own a GF4 Ti4200 and i get the same framerates i did with my old GF2MX, but running at 1024x768 with pixel shaders on, 8x anisotropic filtering and Quincux antialiasing.
Kroakie on 8/6/2002 at 04:06
I'm playing Morrowind on a 500MHz Athlon with 224 MB SDRAM and GeForce2 MX400 64MB, and I get an average fps of 40+ indoor, 30+ wilderness and 20+ cities, so I guess you'd be fine. Of course I'm running with real-time shadows off, and view distance and AI distance about 1/5 from the left at 800x600, but the game still look pretty good.
Fionavar on 8/6/2002 at 04:31
I'm presently running it on a PIII 933, 256 SDRAM, GF 2 MX 32MB, with average FPS, nothing below 14 yet outside - I think you'll be fine. Anyway, the game is so open ended and replayable that by the time you've finally finished it, we'll all be running CPUs over 4 GHZ with holographic display :D Peace.
Tuco on 8/6/2002 at 06:08
Hmm, that's my system except I have a p3 processor instead of an athlon.
