Child of Karras on 28/8/2004 at 17:37
Um... ok. This is kinda' embarrasing but uh, is there anyone playing Morrowind on the outdated GeForce2? I feel like getting back into the game but the lag gets to me sometimes. It's still playable but not the best of performances of course. Besides various the obvious such as defragmentations, is there anything else I can do to improve performance?
PigLick on 28/8/2004 at 18:28
buy a new video card
Child of Karras on 28/8/2004 at 19:42
If I HAD the funds I wouldn't be asking. Shoo.
IkaSama on 28/8/2004 at 21:16
I've never had much of a problem with it on my geforce2, the fog pisses me off sometimes but I can set it to about half distince and still get something like 30-40 fps.
I'm buliding a new rig though and I'm so happy about it.
RyushiBlade on 29/8/2004 at 01:19
I'm using a GeForce 2 MX. It's fine, as long as I close all applications. Bring up the task manager and close explorer.exe. Don't get scared when everything disappears! Explorer is the GUI windows has (the icons and whatnot) and isn't really needed. It's a huge memory hog compared to most other applocations.
I'd go ahead and close anything else running under your username, with the exception of the Morrowind Launcher of course. Then play the game in Window Mode at 800 x 600. That speeds the game up considerably, up to where I could listen to music and play at the same time.
Pisces on 29/8/2004 at 01:32
I have a nVidia TNT2 M64...VERY slow.
Striker on 29/8/2004 at 01:34
I used to have a 64 MB TNT2 and a Celeron 433 when I first played Morrowind! I uprgaded the video card drivers and it increased the FPS by about 3 times. :D
RyushiBlade on 29/8/2004 at 05:38
Only three? I'd have expected it to increase a hundred times :cheeky:
Child of Karras on 29/8/2004 at 06:00
Actually to be more specific, the game runs reasonably well but I'm tired of the jerkiness that gets into it after awhile. Even the music plays weird. I don't mind an FPS drop but dang don't make it so obvious. The tweaks did help though.
shadowthief on 29/8/2004 at 14:30
Try getting, and running, the Morrowind FPS Optimizer. It works wonders. It is a program that will automaticly adjust View Distance and AI distance in the game. All you have to do is set what your min/max framerate is and the program will try to keep it in that area.
I keep it on and the game running at around 10 FPS ( :sweat: ) but at least it is some-what-smooth. Its really nice for citys where you can still run around willy-nilly and not jurk about, sure the fog is a bit close but you can't really get lost in a town.
Even with my realitive crappy computer there are time when the view distance goes way above the normal and I can see for miles, mainly in wastelands and other "less object intense" areas, even with just 10 FPS. Granted if I look some where really quick that has a ton of objects the frame rate drops to a crawl but it corrects itself quickly.
