flyauburn41 on 19/5/2002 at 20:49
I have a Pentium III 500 with 512 megs of ram as well as a high end (not that mx crap) Geforce 3 video card. I know for a fact that i have plenty of power to run this damned game. I also have the latest drivers for my card so i know that isn't the prob. I also have around 2 gigs of free space left on my hard drive for use w/ virtual memory. The game installed fine and everyting went fine, until i clicked new to start the game, it says "loading interior" over a taskbar... problem is it won't go past this screen!! It gets to the end of the load bar and then stops responding. What is the deal?? I am desperate, i really want to play this game and one of the reasons i bought a new video card was for this very purpose! Please help! Thanks.
Colin The Grey on 19/5/2002 at 21:13
Things to try:
What sound card do you have?
If its onboard AC97 then Morrowind probably won't work.
If its a decent model - check for the latest drivers for your sound card.
Try the latest NVidia reference drivers if you are using ones specific to your video card.
Check you have DirectX 8.1 installed
flyauburn41 on 19/5/2002 at 21:18
i am using an Aureal Vortex 2 sound card.. i turned off the hardware accel to see if that would work but it didn't. I have the latest nvidia hardware driver downloaded (28.32) and i am using Direct X 8.1... anyone have any more suggestions??
Fat Burrick on 19/5/2002 at 21:40
Tried reinstalling the game?
Colin The Grey on 19/5/2002 at 21:48
Which Geforce 3 card do you have?
freshie on 20/5/2002 at 14:13
Quote:
Originally posted by flyauburn41 i am using an Aureal Vortex 2 sound card.. i turned off the hardware accel to see if that would work but it didn't. I have the latest nvidia hardware driver downloaded (28.32) and i am using Direct X 8.1... anyone have any more suggestions?? i just pulled my old vortex 2 based card out of my machine in favor of the Hercules Game Theatre XP. My performance is definitely up. The vortex 2 is dodgy IMO.
500 Mhz processor is definitely bottleneck in your rig. You are going to have to turn down some options to get the game running at a decent performance rate.
the_grip on 20/5/2002 at 18:53
Actually, i'm running an AMD 500 with 512 MB RAM, SB Live Value, and a Voodoo 5500. The game runs 10 fps in cities, 30 indoors, around 12-15 in the wilderness. Quite acceptable to me (although i am upgrading soon).
This is with all the default settings.
Nomad on 20/5/2002 at 19:05
I ran into a similar problem with my Geforce2. Oddly, I had recently installed the 28.32 driver set, but still had the problem. I had to completely uninstall the drivers through Add/Remove Programs, as well as a previous set that also took up residency therein. I reinstalled the 28.32 drivers and haven't had a crash since.
