Key points
- For Windows 8 and later apply The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fullscreen border fix.
- Active modding community.
- A wide array of bugs have been fixed through community patches.
General information
- Official website.
- GOG.com Community Discussions for The Elder Scrolls series
- GOG.com Support Page.
- Steam Community Discussions
- Steam Users' Forums
- Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, a wiki for the Elder Scrolls series.
- Morrowind Nexus, the largest active modding community for Morrowind.
Availability
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 Elder Scrolls Anthology includes both a retail version and a single Steam key that unlocks Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.[5]
- The retail and GOG.com versions include The Elder Scrolls Construction Set.[3] The Steam version does not include the Construction Set.[4]
- The GameStop PC Downloads/Impulse version is not compatible with some mods.[6] This version is no longer sold.
DLC and expansion packs
Essential improvements
Patches
- The Game of the Year Edition and the digital distribution versions are already fully patched.
- The latest patch for the base Morrowind is 1.2.0722.
- The latest patch for Tribunal is 1.14.1313.
- The latest patch for Bloodmoon is 1.6.1820.
Skip intro videos
Unofficial Patches
- Morrowind Overhaul includes this patch.
- Users without both expansions should use the Unofficial Morrowind Patch 1.2.2b (listed as
patch2.2b.7z
).
- Fixes several hundred bugs and inconsistencies not covered by the official patches.
- Morrowind Overhaul includes this patch.
- Fixes bugs in the Morrowind executable that could not be covered by the Morrowind Patch Project.
- Includes several optional improvements; including an important save game corruption fix.
- Fixes scripting errors to reduce save bloat and improve stability.
UV Texture fixes
- The following mods fix texture seams:
- Morrowind Overhaul includes this patch.
- Improves performance on older machines.
- Incompatible with non-Intel CPUs.
- Improves stability on systems with at least 3GB RAM by allowing the application to use more than 2GB RAM. Particularly useful when using large numbers of mods or heavily scripted mods
Mods
Morroblivion / Skywind
- Morroblivion, a full port/remake of Morrowind in the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion engine has been released and is available here.
- Skywind, a full port/remake of Morrowind in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim engine is still in progress. More information can be found here.
- A compilation of mods with a fully automated installer and an automatic updater. Includes, The Unofficial Morrowind Patch, Morrowind Code Patch, and MGE.
- Improved visuals, effects, sounds and Higher Resolution Textures.
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:
Utilities
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.
- included in Morrowind Overhaul.
An updated fork of MGE with expanded features, bug fixes and performance enhancements over standard MGE.
Sorts mod load order to reduce conflicts and provides messages regarding known issues with mods.
3rd Party mod manager and conflict resolution tool.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
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GOG Galaxy |
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Steam Cloud |
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Stores up to 953.67 MB of game saves online (maximum 100 files). |
Video settings
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Input settings
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Audio settings
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Issues fixed
Crashing During Install or Launch
Render Creation Failure
Audio Problems (Windows XP)
Grey Haze
Crash After a Few Minutes of Play
Mouse Lag
Load Failure
Black Sun
Unable to construct potions, due to a wrong message it does not have a name
Window border visible in fullscreen mode
- Morrowind does not go fullscreen correctly on Windows 8 and later.
Retail version does not work (Windows 10)
Install the latest Patches to remove the incompatible SafeDisc protection from the retail version.[7]
Other information
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.[8]
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
8 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
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) |
32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible | |
Notes
- ↑ 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