Morrowind experiences

[loinburger]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
What advice would you give me for playing (other than the latest patch, exe-crack and video settings)?

If you're going to be doing much hand-to-hand combat (i.e. if you're a warrior-based character), then invest heavily in the Blocking skill (be certain that it is a Major skill). I didn't bother using shields in TES I or II (Arena or Daggerfall), since they gave a pretty pitiful bonus to AC and weren't worth sacrificing the extra hitting power of a two-handed weapon. However, they're fantastic in Morrowind, so forget about two-handed melee weapons and always use a good shield.

Play a couple of trial runs with different characters before you start playing the game for real. You'll want to pick a good set of Major and Minor skills. My advice is that you only pick one melee weapon as a Major/Minor skill, and stick to that weapon. Make Athletics, Security, and Acrobatics Major/Minor skills unless you're a powerful spellcaster (in which case you won't need Security or Acrobatics, but might still want to consider Athletics). I'd recommend against making Enchantment a Major/Minor skill since it's extremely difficult to level up.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
OK then ... i gave in and have gone and bought this game.

I've been interested in it for a while and since you guys love it so much (and since I now have access to a PC good enough to run it at a decent speed) I bought it.

I won't get a chance to play until Sunday because I'm busy, though, so ....

What advice would you give me for playing (other than the latest patch, exe-crack and video settings)?

What are the things you've most enjoyed about your character or playing experience that I should try?
What are the annoying things that I should try to avoid?

Thanks in advance for you responses.

Well I like randomness, and at the beginning oyu get a choice of different charachters as a kind of questionare when you get off boat in the first scene. And you can choose to answer questions that a local counsellor asks you which will give you a class upon your answers.

I like that a lot, ans just started playing with my charachter, that resembles some of my qualities upon my answers - and for me the questions asked were quality . You should be able to progress with whatever you become as there are major minor and misc skills, so you can build up any of them - on purpose if you want tho play "god" or just as the game progresses (maybe sometimes you will need training as certain skills will be too low to accomplish tasks).

And the game is OPEN as it can be and you can do whatever you want , and full of life so there is plenty plenty to do.

These are all pluses. A minus is performance occasionally, but other than that the game is the most beautiful to date for my taste too.

Great!

[Asher]

Digital Vibrance isn't available on all video cards Nvidia makes. IIRC, it's only on the GF2MX and Go (not GTS, Ultra, Pro), and the GeForce 3 & 4 chips.

[Jon Miller]

I need to get myself a better card

Jon Miller

[loinburger]

I finally found a "Summon Golden Saint" spell in Tel Branora. Wutang!

[Scouse Gits]

Hekp!

with the first 'Blades' quest - to get the info I have to get the 'Puzzle Box' from Ank... -- now I've quartered that hole - opened the locked door - got past the lava pit - but can i find the dratted box - can i hell -- what am i missing ???????????

SG[1]

[November Adam]

It's actually as you first come into the main cave, there is a ledge, go up there and there is a room with it in there.

[Scouse Gits]

Thanks - I shall try that - I must say that I felt that I had exhausted all possibilities and that included spending an extra 15 mins inspecting the area around the entrance - been had like that before - but to no avail - will try harder

SG[1]

[FrustratedPoet]

hmmm .... how very annoying.

I've started to play this game a bit now (thanks for the advice! ) and I really like it, but it often crashes in a very strange way.

The game runs very smoothly so I don't think it is to do with the system specs ... and I've installed the latest patch ... but the game often flips back to the desktop after 5-10 mins of playing.

I get no error or crash messages on the screen, no error noises ... no freezes or anything ... I'm just happily playing the game and in the blink of an eye the game ends and I get dumped back to the desktop without warning. Needless to say I can't really play the game in this state.

Any ideas? Help? Please?

(I downloaded the safedisc .exe crack thingy from gamecopyworld, but couldn't work out how to get it to work. how do you do this? maybe this would solve my problems ....)

I'm running it on WinXP with 128MB of ram and a GeForce4 BTW.

This would be an awesome game if only i could actually play it!

[FrustratedPoet]

After browsing the official forum I found that LOADS of people are having a similar problem to me. It appears to be an XP+AMD+DirectX 8.1 compatibility issue. I downloaded an XP update that was supposed to fix it, but it didn't.

Anyone else having these problems?

[JohnIII]

Nope, and I have XP + AMD. It did crash every so often, but only after a few hours.

Doesn't Gamecopyworld have instructions for the crack? It did when I got it.

[FrustratedPoet]

it only says to rename the file you download (is an .ace file) as morrowind.exe and backup the original.

i did that, but when I click on the launcher shortcut and select 'play' nothing happens. i tried sending the shortcut direct to the crack file, but that did nothing also.

[JohnIII]

Hmm...are you sure you have the right one? I used one which requires you to copy the Video directory from the CD.

[FrustratedPoet]

hmm ... i saw that one there also, but didn't think it was what i wanted ...

i'll try it.

thanks.

[FrustratedPoet]

the filename is mytmwu1.ace - is that it?