Morrowind Q&A

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• ¬ ¬ look before you leap, jackass. perhaps theres a bad link in LNC EX to... : jake2000

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• both your Speed attribute and Athletics skill will affect running speed, but having a higher Speed will ... : johnny appleseid

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  it actually resets your PC? I think there's a bigger problem there...update your BIOS, or look into othe... : jason bergman
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    it gave me a bsod :\ : -Panther-
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      that's a little more likely. I've had it crash a few times, but it's never locked my computer, and certa... : jason bergman
      • ah, gotcha, yeah, I suppose that would be odd. : -Panther-

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  AI Distance: 25% 3D Audio Quality: High Video: 1024*768 Realtime Shadows: Off View Distance: ~60% ... : johnny appleseid
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    Oh, your viewing distance is 60%. So that's why you're getting such good(relatively) framerates. I ref... : aerelorn
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      I have viewdistance at just one or two clicks from min, shadows off, sound quality low, ai distance at m... : Anti_dentite
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        what's your system? : johnny appleseid
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          geforce 2/p3 800/512mb sdr It's not a top of the line system, but if I can run every other game out t... : Anti_dentite
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            Perhaps at least part of the reason the Morrowind won't as well on your system as every other game out t... : pyrotek
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              Or the next gen Quake 4 and DooM 3 engines... : Evangelion
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                I wouldn't expect doom 3 to run on this computer, but I don't expect to have to buy a computer capable o... : Anti_dentite
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                  to be fair, Morrowind does look pretty good, and not just the water effects. Also, it's not a "storm th : johnny appleseid
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                    yes, but (and I hate to bring this game up), everquest is also outside a lot, it also has to deal with n... : Anti_dentite
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                      One word: zones. : pyrotek
                      • zones? there are zones in both morrowind and everquest. In fact the zones in everquest are huge in com... : Anti_dentite
            • Well maybe it is a little more complicated then the rest of the games out there, but I see nothing in th... : Anti_dentite

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• You can't buy a house, but you can get one through joining one of the three great houses and completing ... : Anti_dentite
• There s also a plugin that adds a banking system and the ability to buy houses. I haven't tried it, thou... : x-eyd|mary
• Why do you need a house? I just dump all the big stuff at the Mage Guildand it's never touched. Nothing ... : TheDreamDragon

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  I really hadn't thought to ask about it. It hasn't been much of a problem for me, and my PC's not very h... : jason bergman
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    Really? You seem to be the only one then. I mean, I can accept fps of maybe 25+, but in town, even w... : Anti_dentite
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      I probably get about the same as you. I guess I'm just used to it. :P : jason bergman
      • Yeah, I mean it's playable, but it takes so much fun out of the game for me. I've read a few topics o... : Anti_dentite
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  I really enjoy the game but the framrate issue is awful. I got a pretty good system: P4 1.8Ghz 512MB ... : digitaljihad
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    you should be getting better than 8-20, even running with highest viewing distance. Drivers? : johnny appleseid
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      no, he shouldn't. morrowind brings the beefiest pcs to their knees, and it doesn't matter what res you ... : altruism
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        I get a better framerate than that and my system is a generation older. : johnny appleseid
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          do you have it so you can view you fps? : Anti_dentite
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            I just tested in Balmora, and I get 20-40, often 25-30. My system: 1.4 Athlon 1gig ram geforce3 ... : johnny appleseid
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              Well even that isn't very good, although much better than what most get : Anti_dentite
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                I remember playing Daggerfall for the first time on my p75. The game was great, but it ran like crap co... : johnny appleseid
                • true, but there's nothing in morrowind that should make it run so slow. If you need a computer that w... : Anti_dentite
    • This city is a range, I average about 18fps in the cities but is can creep low. Everything else is fone... : digitaljihad
  • damn, i get those frames with a 1.2 tbird gf2 and 256 ram. : accused

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  Ghostfense shrine is just northeast of Ghostgate. Just go inside the ghostfense, and straigh northeast. : andyp
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    Cool thanks...people were telling me west of the stronghold...what about the puzzle cannal one? theres l... : cold_40
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      so breathe the water then. : johnny appleseid
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        I did...and drowned. : cold_40
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          breathe, not drink. : johnny appleseid
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            Whats the 'breathe' key? :P : cold_40
            • bah, just drown yourself and the way will open. : johnny appleseid
• Ghostgate is in the horizontal centre of Vvardenfell, a little south of the vertical centre. : johnny appleseid

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• not yet. there are a couple of plugins, but no patch yet. : jason bergman
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  return it before opening : Bali
  • Now now, it's still quite playable and fun... : cold_40
• there will be, likely in less than a week. : johnny appleseid

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  it's ugly. : jason bergman
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    come on. There has got to be a better way to display an interview. There should be somekind of visua... : sucko
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      this site is white text on a black background. If you can come up with something that's not completely u... : jason bergman
      • bold it : kreggers
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        what about using the same font colour as the "morrowind q&a" title? looks good on black : Anti_dentite
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          howzis? http://www.shacknews.com/extras/interviews/morrowindqaA.x Looks kinda ugly, but it is an ... : jason bergman
          • an improvement, to be sure. : -Panther-
          • you guess? MUCH better. not ideal, but much better all the same. : Kniggit
          • I like it. : Anti_dentite
          • still need some space after the "[page 1] .. [comments]" at the bottom i think : accused
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            much much better. : sucko
            • okay, I've made the changes. It's still ugly, but if everyone prefers it, who am I to argue? : jason bergman
  • Yeah. Readability be damned. : Stormrider

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• * O F F I C E - S P A C E ' D * : Sebastian Sylvan

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• The ending was a let down all things considered. I thought we'd have so many choices on what to do...... : Anti_dentite
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  http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3828389 Seriously though, it's tough to have an "ending" that does... : johnny appleseid
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    and it wasn't even a good ring.... : Anti_dentite
    • hence "Stupid Ring". Not an appropriate reward, to be sure. You did come out with the hammer, gauntlet... : johnny appleseid
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  Kill vivec, activate wraithguard - here is another ending. There could be a third (become a god) as wel... : andyp
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    I've read posts on forums about people trying that ending, but they still end up having to finish it the... : Anti_dentite
    • I concur, I think that's just a rumour. : johnny appleseid
• yeah, this goes for just about ALL recent PC games I've played too. JK2, Wolfenstein come to mind as ext... : -mu-

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• some big projects have started (only about 10% of which will ever be finished, if that), but for the mos... : johnny appleseid
• Nothing really impressive. New weapons and merchants, that kind of thing. It'll be awhile before we st... : Jedi SeXpansion

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  I think it's a terrible idea. That's why I asked. :) : jason bergman
  • nah, i think you've just been importing too many Japanese dating games. =p : l337sux0r

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  Bethesda has said that the first patch will have options to deal with this. What they might be, and whe... : johnny appleseid
  • I'll probably just start a new character as a pure mage. No weapons at all, even the summoned ones. Th... : andyp

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  I doubt it. : jason bergman
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    ya I'm not holding my breath, but the capability is there. I hope more devs take advantage of the hd in ... : hunterkiller
    • they may have taken out that functionality completely. Hopefully not, that way the option is still there... : jason bergman

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• yeah, in retrospect I would have liked to have asked about the music. I like the music in the game, but ... : jason bergman