EDIT: Misleading title, sorry. I meant to put Modding Morrowind on Steam
i've recently downloaded and installed Morrowind off of Steam and I want to install Overhaul on it. I've heard you have to change the dates on you Morrowind files so they don't keep overwriting any mods with earlier dates on them. how do i go about this and which folder do i put any other mods into?
i've had a bit of a look around and can't really find anything specific to the Steam version. the instructions on the Overhaul website are alright but still kind of confusing. so if anyone can help out someone who is completly new to PC gaming and modding that would be great. cheers.
I bought Morrowind on Steam and started modding it in order to play 1920x1080 because any 4:3 resolution for me is unplayable (I know, I'm spoiled). I've tried using Nexus Mod Manager, Morrowind Graphics Extender, and a few other programs/mods to enhance my game so that I could play at 16:9, but sadly every time I have, it usually ends up with it telling me that it can't find my game directory, or to run the game at least once. I even tried going to my game directory by using regedit and editing my width and height values, and after I save it, I launch Morrowind and it goes right back to 1024x768. Then, I go back to my game directory and I see that the resolution is reset. I assume that it's because my Morrowind is on Steam, and since it's on Steam it's a different directory. Is there a way I can get 1920x1080 on Steam? I've had this problem for quite a long time now, and I've been searching all over the internet for a fix, but no dice.
Thanks for answers in advance.
Edited by micdeux, 11 March 2015 - 09:46 PM.
Morrowind, the third and greatest instalment in Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series, has been back in the news this week. It was briefly free to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series, and then made a brief return to Steam’s top sellers, thanks to discounts and coverage. Which is lovely: it shows its age in many, many painful ways, but its imagination, ambition and wonderfully weird visual design to this day makes Oblivion and Skyrim seem so terribly ordinary.
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Gun it up today, for the very first time, and you’ll think me completely mad to say that, however. It’s basically a world of fog and people who look like they were whittled from fallen branches. But, thanks to 17 years of mods, it now only takes a couple of installations and a tiny amount of work to make it stunning in the ways that most count. If you’re about to play, quickly do these things first.
This isn’t a guide – it’s a PSA. I’m going to point you at a very small handful of key mods and leave you to figure the rest out yourself. They’ve got readmes, what the crikey do you need me for?
In short though, what I’m doing is changing this:
…into this:
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And this…
… into this:
And this:
Into this:
(And, at sunset, this:)
Actually changing the inherent look of the game, with new character models, skins, textures, trees and whatnot is another story, and I leave you to make your own decisions about that by browsing NexusMod’s Morrowind archive. All I want to do is give you some quick pointers on how to clear away the debris of 2002 technical limitations so it looks acceptable, even beautiful, on your 2019 monitor. This isn’t the only way to do that, but it’s the way I’m doing that, and I got fast, excellent results.
There are two key mods you want. The first is Morrowind Code Patch, which tinkers with the main executable to clear out some ancient bugs, overcome old RAM caps and improve mod support. Download it, stick it in your Morrowind install directory, run it, press Apply, forget about it.
Next, the bigger, slightly more involved one – Morrowind Graphics Extender XE, which dispenses with OG MW’s limitations on draw distance, fog and whatnot, and adds some fancy, but not too fancy, new shader effects. Download, extract into Morrowind folder, run MXGEXEgui.exe, click on the Instructions tab and do what it says. Allow yourself ten minutes, as it re-jiggers various files. I also spent a little while maxing individual settings beyond the recommendations, and didn’t find anything to trip up my (admittedly quite powerful) PC.
And that, basically, is that. Oppresive fog all gone, light and shadow is much prettier, water has reflections, I can see the world all around rather than empty distant landscapes, there’s SSAO and depth of field, and it looks just lovely – and immense. Character models, less so, but it’s the environment I care about.
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All this stuff can be adjusted or turned off, if you want to preserve more of the original look – for instance, some people find the pea-soup fog to be uniquely atmospheric, so you might want to restore some of that.
For what it’s worth, I also stuck in Morrowind Enhanced Textures, a very recent mod which uses neural net tomfoolery to upscale the textures. There are endless MW texture packs out there, but most of them involve either departing from original artist intentions or using clanging oversharpening filters. This one is nice and subtle: the game looks a little sharper for it, but it’s still very much Morrowind as intended.
If this is your first rodeo, you may also wish to add the Accurate Attack mod, which sidesteps Morrowind’s notorious per-attack invisible dice roll system, in which a hit that visibly connected can be treated as a miss.
You’re still going to run into some headaches – the interface is a bear, the font is awful, combat is shonky – but, with these, you’re all set to have a whale of a time with a true roleplaying classic. Give yourself time, give yourself over to slow wonder, confusion and anxiety, and I promise good things will come to you.
Morrowind Code Patch is a mod for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, created by Hrnchamd and Psyringe.
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Morrowind is a game of great depth, a huge world, incredibly extensible and with a thriving community. Unfortunately it's also full of bugs. This is our attempt at defeating the worst bugs in the game, including save corruption; and also adding a few more features people have dreamt of.
All fixes and gameplay changes included are optional, you can independently select which ones you want to use in the installer. Gameplay changes are turned off by default.
Compatible with English, West European, Polish, Russian and Steam editions. Compatible with MGE, MWSE, MWE, and FPS Opt 1.96. Not compatible with the Impulse version of Morrowind (due to DRM), nor FPS Opt 2.0.
If you have the Steam version, MCP will redate your BSAs automatically when the patch is applied. This allows replacer mods to work correctly without the work of redating manually.
See the readme for install and upgrade instructions.
Report problems with download to [email protected]
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