Stingm on 13/3/2012 at 07:18
Ok I need help as Morrowind stopped running. I have a p4 1.5 512meg ram xp sp3 with a Radeon 7500 64 meg graphicss card.
I was fine with my nvidia gf3 ti 64 meg but it finaly died and I had to replace with the radeon. Every other game works except morrowind. It loads up and gets as far as the initializing bar. It gets about half to 3/4 and then the screen changes to a blue screen of death saying something about unloading memory. Now I know that the tech that changed the card for me probably never uninstalled the old nvidia drivers. I did have problems with other games until I downloaded and installed the latest radeon drivers. But morrowind ran with the radeon before the driver update. So now everything runs except morrowind.:confused: If anyone has any ideas or can help I would realy appreciate it as morrowind is one of my all time favorite games along with the thief series. :confused::angel::thumb::):cheeky:
baeuchlein on 14/3/2012 at 18:44
Quote Posted by Stingm
Ok I need help as Morrowind stopped running. I have a p4 1.5 512meg ram xp sp3 with a Radeon 7500 64 meg graphicss card.
I was fine with my nvidia gf3 ti 64 meg but it finaly died and I had to replace with the radeon. [...] Now I know that the tech that changed the card for me probably never uninstalled the old nvidia drivers. I did have problems with other games until I downloaded and installed the latest radeon drivers. But morrowind ran with the radeon before the driver update. So now everything runs except morrowind.
Well, I can confirm that
Morrowind should run with your setup. I have played it for a while with a Radeon 7500 series card with 64 MBytes of video RAM years ago, but that was with Win98SE as the operating system. With WinXP,
Morrowind stopped working whenever SP2 was installed. A Windows installation without any service pack worked even with a Radeon 9550, repeatedly.
When I had to change from an ATI (non-Radeon) card to a nVidia TNT2 M64 long ago while I still played
Morrowind, the game was one of only a few which would react badly if I had not properly disposed of the old drivers. This is another similarity to your situation.
Now for the bad news. I cannot tell you how to properly uninstall the old card's drivers - I am not even certain that it is possible at all, or that the person who replaced your graphics card did not uninstall the card's drivers. I have prepared image files of my installations in various stages of the installation process for about ten years now, and whenever there's a new piece of hardware that has to be installed, I seriously consider going back to such an image where almost no hardware-related drivers are installed. That way, I start from a system that never even
had drivers for an old graphics card (or whatever was changed), and I don't have to worry about uninstalling any drivers. Uninstalling drivers has frequently led to unusable or unstable systems (at least for me), thus I try to avoid these. (Of course, I have to think about how to preserve saved games, text files and so on when putting my old operating system into the trash bin.:sweat:)
I hope that someone can tell you how to verify whether it's really remnants of old drivers that prevent
Morrowind from being started. If we cannot do that, then I see no other solution than to re-install Windows from scratch -
hoping (but not
knowing) that everything will work fine again after that. Of course, preparing images of the current state of your operating system as well as installation stages of a potential Windows re-install could really turn out beneficial.
Stingm on 15/3/2012 at 02:21
Thanks I really apreciate your response and help. I hope someone can tell me how to uninstall old drivers.:angel::thumb: :):cheeky:
Al_B on 16/3/2012 at 18:21
I had similar problems with other games when switching from an ATI card to a NVIDIA card a few years ago although I don't think I ever specifically encountered the problem you're seeing with Morrowind. I think at the time I uninstalled all drivers and then used (
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/) Driver Sweeper to get rid of any odds and ends that might be left before re-installing the latest drivers.
It might be worth a shot and would be less painful if it works than re-installing Windows.
Stingm on 19/3/2012 at 02:01
I will check into this...thanks! If anyone else has any ideas please post!
