moloch on 3/1/2003 at 11:31
I know that this is probably the most common problem with Morrowind, and your probably all sick of hearing about it, but I'm getting a hell of a lot of Crashes to Desktop. Game runs great apart from that, looks brilliants, but is frustrating me by its refusal to run for more than 15 minutes (though I know that others can't even get it going for 5).
I have also run it both with and without the no-cd crack (it runs faster with the crack). And I am using the Tribunal Version (so its at the most recent patch level)
So, as I know a lot of people have had this problem, and as I know that there is no one solution, what have they found works best to minimise it?
(For the record, I'm running an AMD Atholon XP 2000+, Geforce 4 TI 4200 (128 mb) and have either 256 mb RAM, not sure which, on a Windows ME system. Anybody with similar specs found a decent method yet?)
MagicMerlin on 3/1/2003 at 16:09
Hard to say, cause while plaing it for some month, i even did not have a single crash.
But what i learned in the past is, that if somethings going havoc, blame that damn ME.
I use Win98 and WinXP for the games and the run fine. (With WinME, the amount of crashes on some games was unexcaptable.)
Also look into the registry, if there are some old games that are no longer on the HD. Forget that "uninstall" - only very few clean up properly.
Dont know you board, but also have a look at the Via4in1, also most stable Bios (not LATEST, i say STABLE :cheeky: ) and current Driver for Video + Audio.
Perhaps some IRQ Problem ?
Sorry but seems to be a wide area of possibilities.
Anarkos on 3/1/2003 at 22:49
Until I got my Audigy, I had cut my crashes down to almost zero.
At first, it was bad, as you've described. :( Then I flipped off the game's music, and the number of crashes dropped significantly. :) And then I bought another 256MB stick of DDR, putting my RAM up to 512MB, almost no crashes. :D Finally, I upgraded from a 32MB GF2MX to a 64MB GF4Ti4200. No crashes :thumb: [then I bought and Audigy and Tribunal, and the crashes returned... :mad:].
So, my suggestions:
1) Turn off music.
2) Fiddle with hardware/software acceleration in the sound settings.
3) Buy more RAM
:idea: And, most importantly:
Uninstall Windows ME, in the name of our dear Lord God, uninstall ME!!! Run XP, 2k or 98SE. Window ME... :nono:
Whirlwind on 13/1/2003 at 09:51
I had that problem too, this thing reduced crashes considerably (now only once in two hours or less)
Look for this line in Morrowind.ini DontThreadLoad=0
Change 0 to 1
I think it means that terrain is not loaded at the same time you play, only at the "edge"
of a terrain block.
SomeGuyNamedAl on 14/1/2003 at 00:51
This probably isn't the case if you can run any other games at all, but my first week with Morrowind was spend yelling at it for the same reason. Apparently, I had overclocked my processor without realizing it (Reseting stuff in the registry, and "enhance chip preformance" looked like a good option.) It made everything crash continuously. Set it back, and I could play everything and Morrowind has crashed only once since.
