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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
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Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States
   

this is my new machine powerhouse:

Pentium 4 at 3.06 gHz with Hyperthreading
1500mb DDRAM
128mb Radeon 9700 Pro

i use a little program i found on the web that doubles the view distance, and i still get smooth framerates at full distance with everything turned on, except for shadows (shadow rendering slows framerates considerably)... morrowind looks so awesome with that enhancement program on this super machine, you would have to see it to believe it...
Post Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:27 am
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Mephisto
Leader of the Senate
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Joined: 05 May 2002
Posts: 300
Location: Holland
   

R9700 can enable AF/AA to 4x/8x with no probs, it will still be bottlenecked by the CPU. Framerates wont improve with a new gpu, but you can make it look better. If you want better fps, get a better cpu. If you have 512mb improving that wont help at all.I doubt a R9800 will be better then 9700, since the game already is bottlenecked by something else then the r9700.

[quotw](This game is sooo badly coded).[/quote]
A shame you dont have a clue about what you speak. yes, the game renders EVERYTHING. is this badly coded? No, it is a choice they made. If you want OCing you need a BSP tree, which games like Unreal have. However, if you want a BSP tree you have to compile such a tree first. Even though this is something NetImmerse engine supports the devs didnt use it, since that would make the plugin system impossible. The very fact you can place a house in front of you with a small console command makes the BSP tree impossible. I'd rather have the editor then better fps.
Post Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:07 am
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puma
Eager Tradesman
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Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Posts: 44
Location: Poland
   

My box is:
Athlon XP 1,7+
MSI K7-233A motherboard with RAID
SB Live
40+120 HDD 7200 rps
CTX 17" (Trinitron monitor)
Win 2000
+ recently upgraded (after starting Morrowind):
RAM from 256 to 512 DDR
graphics from GF2MX to GF4 MX400 64DDR

I used to play 800x600 with avg. 20 fps
After upgrade I turned the shadows on but fps was about 10, so
I swithed it off - now it is about 30 (locked) at full view distance,
so I think of unlocking fps and testing 1024x768.

I noticed, I have usually lower fps in games than people with
similar systems, but I think it is caused by the lot of hardware
and software installed (drivers and services occupy some extra
om my CPU time). Certainly my comp is not optimized for gaming,
but I'm not that demanding of fps and so on.

As for characters:
I started the game with a "borrowed" English version, so I have a
Sorceress with rather random attributes as major and minor skills.
First I foud this game very difficult, as I did not know what to do
and went into some tombs where I had to run for my life. After
some time I returned to this game and fell in love with it (after
I visited Balmora at last). I decided to buy my own copy, but
only Polish localized version was available in shops.

I started a new, well balanced character but I stopped at lvl 2 in
Balmora. I returned to the English version, as I liked the climate
better - feels more foreign. Now I am lvl 20 Alandria Thangorn, the
Sorcerees, who however did not stick to magick, but developed quite
nice skills with ShortBlade (8 and HeavyArmor(67) - both never
trained but self-acquired. Other useful skills developed are:
- Enchant, Mysticism, Restoration, Destruction
- Medium Armor, Alchemy (lot of training)
- Security

STR=61
AGI=50
PER=45
LUC=40
INT=81
WIL=57
SPE=67
END=68
or so I remember

I plan to go through the game English version, then after some break
I will return and do some fun with the other character of Polish version.

I think it is a nice idea to share your stories about how you play
a certain game, will it be hardware/performance related or characters
reviews.
Post Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:41 am
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Iolo
Village Dweller
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Joined: 25 Apr 2003
Posts: 1
   

my system is 2 Ghz 256 ddr ram Geforce 3 ti200 and Morrowind runs great on it.. Even set at the highest settings it still runs great..
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Post Fri Apr 25, 2003 5:32 pm
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Rendelius
Critical Error
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Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 16
Location: Austria
   

Ok, I did it

I upgraded my video card to a Radeon 9700 pro. The P4 2.53 with the 1GB RAM powers the card (previously a GF 4 Ti 4400).

My experience: Well, the 9700 Pro isn't exactly what you would call value for money, but my god, this card is so FAST you can't believe it. True, the bottleneck is the CPU, not the GPU, but whoever ran Morrowind with 4xFSAA/8xAF in 1600x1200 won't ever run it anyway else. The problem with the Ti 4400 was that FSAA and AF brought it to the knees. The Radeon handles it with very little performance loss. However, shadows are still something that stresses the system. If you turn them off, you have a killer framerate. If you turn them on, the 9700 pro still delivers higher framerates than the Ti 4400 with EVERYTHING turned off.

Summary: Morrowind is incredibly beautiful and playable with the 9700 pro.
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Post Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:56 pm
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Mephisto
Leader of the Senate
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Joined: 05 May 2002
Posts: 300
Location: Holland
   

Rend: Go and run some benchies, if you only did Morrowind you havent seen half the 9700p has to offer Even in 1600x1200 with full AA/AF that card is still sitting on his behind boring himself
Post Sun Apr 27, 2003 12:54 pm
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the mighty stamar
High Emperor
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Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Posts: 602
Location: arcata ca, humboldt county
   

I play on a laptop. This is about my 4th time trying to get this game going again.

I have amd 1800 g4mx 420 32mb, 256 mb 2100 ddr.

Contrary to most of you the only places I get 5 fps ( which is as low as the counter goes so its slower than that) is outdoors, in the ash region.

I have the mods giants 2, dragons, wilderness and advanced. I strongly believe this deals with the AI of the spawning points and monsters these mods have. My outdoors can get more crowded than any city, and especially the wilderness mod monsters move so fast you couldnt catch them without those boots.
I play 1024 x at default settings, no pixel shading. Sometimes I turn off shadows nothing else makes a big difference in speed.
At max view distance the game will crash once in a while, but at 90% it goes away. I BELIEVE it is reaching my maximum VRAM which is sort of minimum for the game.

I get 5-20 outodoors
60 in dungeons or so.
15-30 in cities.

Morrowind is the only game I consider or experiment overclocking my card and ram( I cant overclock my cpu) for. But no extra cooling in a laptop scares me so I barely do it.

My 2001 3d mark is 4300.
Post Sat May 03, 2003 10:06 am
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XeroX
The MasterCopy
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Joined: 13 Dec 2001
Posts: 7125
Location: The Netherlands
   

I justed switched my resolution in the game to 1600*1200. It looks grate.
So far i did not notice any dropbacks in playing.
The menu's are kind off small, but you don't need them often anyway.

I don't know how to vieuw the framerate

My pc is only:
Athlon 1333
768 Mb DDR Ram
Geforce 4 Ti 4800
total of 160 Gb Harddisk
19 inch monitor

I'm happy with it
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Post Sat May 03, 2003 1:24 pm
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the mighty stamar
High Emperor
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Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Posts: 602
Location: arcata ca, humboldt county
   

you edit the morrowind .cfg file and change show fps to 1.
Post Sun May 11, 2003 10:43 am
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Ariakas
Counselor of the King
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Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Posts: 354
Location: Texas
   

All right my turn

Homebuilt System
P4 1.5gig
1gig ram
Geoforce 4 TI 4600
19 inch monitor
SB Audigy Gamer

I get about:
35 - 60 outodoors
25 - 50 in dungeons
15 - 45 in cities. (10 - 20 in Balmora)
60 - 90 indoors
(FPS is locked at 90 in ini file)

Play at 1024x768 (bad eyesight)
Pixel shading on
Shadows off
AI View 50%
Difficulty MAX

View distance at about 80%

Have changed Suns glare in the ini file to 0.75 instead of 1.0 on clear days.
(No more crashes to desktop flying over mountain tops on a sunny day)
Can now play 8 to 10 hours straight without a crash!!
Post Tue May 13, 2003 1:54 am
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jalong
Village Dweller
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Joined: 28 Feb 2003
Posts: 1
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
   

Morrowind runs fine. It's a very beautiful looking game... I'm playing a thief-like character this time (2nd run through).

Specs...
Athlon 1900+
Asus MB w/ KT266a chipset
768 MB RAM
GEForce3 Ti500 video w/ TV in/out etc

Adaptec U2W SCSI Adapter
36 GB 10000 RPM SCSI HD (for operating system)
160 GB IDE RAID - 80 GB 7200 RPM HD x 2 (games run off that)
cheap 80 GB IDE drive for backups
SCSI CD
SCSI CDRW
SCSI DVD
etc...

Multiple OS's...
WinXP Pro
Linux Slackware
WinME (maintenance partition)
DOS 6.0 (maintenance partition)
Post Tue May 13, 2003 3:02 am
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Danicek
The Old One
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Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic
   

I play on
AMD 800
GForce 2 GTS
256 MB SDRAM 100 Mhz

I am able to play this game and still enjoy it. There are some slowdowns in outdoors area, mainly when it is raining or there is an ash storm.

However when I compare my system with this

quote:
Originally posted by Ammon777
this is my new machine powerhouse:

Pentium 4 at 3.06 gHz with Hyperthreading
1500mb DDRAM
128mb Radeon 9700 Pro



I wonder how it is possible to play it on my PC :].
Post Tue May 13, 2003 3:43 am
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Drakton
Captain of the Guard
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Joined: 14 Oct 2001
Posts: 195
Location: Monterrey, México
   

Here we go:
Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz
1 Gig RAM
9700 Pro Radeon

Lvl 36 Warrior. Can't remember race . Long time no play. Waiting for Bloodmoon to come out and refresh my memory about game controls, character stats, skills, etc

Since upgrading my Video card from a GeForce 3 Ti500, I noticed a great improvement in framerates, especially in cities.
Game runs like silk most of the time.
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Post Tue May 13, 2003 4:53 am
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python08
Village Dweller
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Joined: 14 May 2003
Posts: 5
me system specs...xbox!
   

my system is an xbox i have got an argonion lvl22 medium armour:lvl89
long sword:100 and i cannot rember the rest...
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Post Wed May 14, 2003 12:55 pm
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python08
Village Dweller
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Posts: 5
do any of your frame rates slow down in...
   

do ur frame rates slow down in the hall of mouths
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