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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
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Developers
Bethesda Game Studios
Publishers
Bethesda Softworks
Engines
Gamebryo
Release dates
Windows May 1, 2002
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on Wikipedia
The Elder Scrolls: Arena 1994
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall 1996
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire 1997
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard 1998
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 2002
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 2006
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2011
The Elder Scrolls Online 2014
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 2016
The Elder Scrolls: Legends 2017
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR 2018
The Elder Scrolls: Blades TBA
The Elder Scrolls VI TBA

Key points

For Windows 8 and later apply The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fullscreen border fix.
The game requires 3rd party patches to fix game breaking issues.

General information

Official website
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
UESP Wiki
Morrowind Nexus - Modding

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DRM: SafeDisc. Requires the disc to be always present.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Amazon.com
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Amazon.com
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
The Elder Scrolls Anthology; includes Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim plus their expansions.
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Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GamersGate
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Green Man Gaming
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes both expansions and the Construction Set.[1]
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Humble Store
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Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Steam
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Includes both expansions but not the Construction Set.[2]
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Version differences

The Game of the Year Edition includes both expansions and the latest patches. All digital distribution versions are the Game of the Year Edition and are already fully patched.
The GameStop PC Downloads/Impulse version is not compatible with some mods.[3] This version is no longer sold.
The Elder Scrolls Anthology includes both a retail version and a single Steam key that unlocks Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.[4]
The retail and GOG.com versions include The Elder Scrolls Construction Set.[1] The Steam version does not include the Construction Set.[2]

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Tribunal Included in the Game of the Year Edition.
Windows
Bloodmoon Included in the Game of the Year Edition.
Windows
Entertainers Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows
Bitter Coast Sounds Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows
Area Effect Arrows Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows
Helm of Tohan Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows
Master Index Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows
LeFemm Armor Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows
Adamantium Armor Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows
Siege at Firemoth Free download from The Elder Scrolls Official Site.
Windows

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Patches

  • The latest patch for the base Morrowind is 1.2.0722. This patch isn't needed for the Game of the Year Edition and digital distribution versions.
  • The latest patch for Tribunal is 1.14.1313. This patch is needed for some retail versions. This patch isn't needed for the retail Game of the Year Edition and digital distribution versions.
  • The latest patch for Bloodmoon is 1.6.1820. This patch is needed for some retail versions. This patch isn't needed for the retail Game of the Year Edition and digital distribution versions.

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Instructions

Unofficial Patches

The Unofficial Morrowind Patch

Fixes several hundred bugs and inconsistencies not covered by the official patches.
users without both expansions should use the Unofficial Morrowind Patch 1.2.2b (listed as patch2.2b)

Morrowind Code Patch

Fixes bugs in the morrowind executable (not covered in the scope of the Unofficial Morrowind Patch).
Includes several optional improvements; including an important save game corruption fix.
Incompatible with the encrypted GameStop (Impulse) executable.
Morrowind Overhaul includes this patch.

Morrowind Script Tidy

Fixes scripting errors to reduce save bloat and improve stability
Works with or without expansions

UV Texture fixes

The following mods fix texture seams:

exe optimizer

Improves performance on older machines.
Incompatible with non-Intel CPUs.
incompatible with the encrypted Impulse executable.
Instructions

Large Address Aware

Improves stability on systems with at least 3GB RAM by allowing the application to use more than 2GB RAM.
Particularly when using large numbers of mods or heavily scripted mods

Mods

Morroblivion / Skywind

A full port/remake of Morrowind in the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion engine has been released and is available Morroblivion.
A full port/remake of Morrowind in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim engine is still work in progress Skywind.

Morrowind Overhaul

A compilation of mods with a fully automated installer and an automatic updater.

Improved visuals, effects, sounds and Higher Resolution Textures.
This mod cannot be used with the encrypted GameStop (Impulse) executable.
Includes Morrowind Code Patch and MGE.

During install, the mod may take control of the user's mouse and keyboard for periods of time as it selects the correct settings needed for its successful installation. The user is given a choice of graphics options that best suits their setup, as, on its highest settings, the mod requires a very powerful setup to run smoothly. Users who have installed the mod and are experiencing low frame rates may wish to disable the "water effects" and "distant lands" settings using MGEgui.exe.

Many users have experienced issues with the game merely displaying a black screen past the main menu. There are two causes of this issue - their solutions are outlined below:

Instructions
Instructions

Utilities

Morrowind Graphics Extender (MGE)

Morrowind Graphics Extender is a utility capable of improving the graphics in Morrowind. Some users may prefer to install MGE individually in order to build their own overhaul or retain the original textures of vanilla Morrowind. The most prominent feature offered by MGE is the addition of the "Distant Lands" distant landscape, but it is also capable of adding shaders, better water, and a myriad of other improvements.

MGE XE

included in Morrowind Overhaul.

An updated fork of MGE with expanded features, bug fixes and performance enhancements over standard MGE.

mlox

Sorts mod load order to reduce conflicts and provides messages regarding known issues with mods.

Wrye Mash

3rd Party mod manager and conflict resolution tool.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Syncs save games.

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Crashing During Install or Launch

Instructions

Render Creation Failure

Instructions

Audio Problems (Windows XP)

Instructions

Grey Haze

Instructions

Crash After a Few Minutes of Play

Instructions

Mouse Lag

Instructions

Load Failure

Instructions

Black Sun

Instructions

Installing The Elder Scrolls Construction Set Disc

Instructions

Unable to construct potions, due to a wrong message it does not have a name

Instructions

Window border visible in fullscreen mode

Morrowind does not go fullscreen correctly on Windows 8 and later.
Instructions

Retail version does not work (Windows 10)

Install the latest Patches to remove the incompatible SafeDisc protection from the retail version.[5]

Other information

OpenMW

An in-development open-source re-implementation of Morrowind's engine, OpenMW allows Morrowind to be played natively on Windows, OS X, and Linux as well as enhance the game by correcting engine-related bugs such as savegame "doubling" and improving physics, combat, AI, and graphics.[6]

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB (98, ME) / 256 MB (2000, XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Direct3D compatible card
32 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/22320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (22320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References