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There was an interesting posting at the Elder Scrolls forums about the system specs needed to run Morrowind, made by Mr. SmileyFacedude. Here we go:
I will once again repeat the specs of the system I am using to do development on and play/test Morrowind:
Dual Pentium III 600MHz
256MB RAM
GeForce2 Ultra with 64MB RAM
This runs the gave exceptionally well. Note that you can get the equivalent graphics card for a very low price right now. The dual processors help a little, but a single processor won't show much if any slowdown.
As always, you want to have as much RAM as possible, the best video card you can afford, and the fastest processor you can afford. That's the order of importance of upgrades, too.
I'm not sure why people are so hung up on the minimum system specs. Most people on the forums here will either upgrade before the game ships or already have machines that are more than adequate. And the average consumer on the street probably won't have heard about Morrowind before they see the box in stores, which will of course have the tested minimum spec on it.
It's not a matter of "secrecy", conspiracy, withholding information or anything like that. We're simply not going to bother testing what the lowest system is until we've fully optimized the game. Because before that point, guessing the minimum required spec is meaningless. You might perform optimizations or add new, required features that changes the spec in either direction, and if we'd published the minimum spec before that, you'd all be in an uproar about that.
So you won't get final, official minimum specs until very late in the development. Sorry. But at least you have an idea what works well NOW. And it definitely does NOT require a $3000 computer. |
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Morrowind: On System Specs
