Marrowind question

[white]

Hey, what's wrong with that? ;)

I notice your sig. Are you aware that, in the first release version, at least, Oblivion won't have werewolves? Yeah, it sucks. I hope they make a bloodmoon-esque expansion, or some suitably skilled modder adds them.

[Set]

*ressurects topic* Gather your bones, shake the dust from your limbs...rise! Ahahahahaha!

I purchased the Game Of The Year edition of Morrowind last month, and it's gotten quite addictive. Problem is on my old computer it occasionally freezes for a minute and then starts running again. I've got it on the lowest settings possible, as my computer is probably as old as I am, but I still find it annoying.

I've tried to load it on my laptop (which I loathe...man I hate that thing). It's newer, but my mother got it from work, so it's got Windows 2000 Professional on it (I think...). It installed just fine but every time I try to play it I get a window that says "Render creation error" and it doesn't work. Can I fix it? Or do I have to suffer through using my old computer (which, strangely, runs all of my other games just fine)?

[Shadow Wulf]

first of all it is morrowind

sorry but you can't become a werewolf in the xbox
it is the expansion bloodmoon wich enable the werewolf transformation the PC version of morrowind

*Buzzer sounds*

WRONG...sortof...


There is a "GAME OF THE YEAR" Edition of Morrowind for the X-Box that includes both the Tribunal and Bloodmoon Expansions. ...so yes you can.

Although, it is far from simple to do. The aria of the game where the werewolves are is so incredibly dangerous that you will have to level up your character very high (requiring dozens and dozens of hours of gameplay) before you will be strong enough to survive even visiting that aria, let alone surviving a werewolf attack to become one yourself.

...but yes...the version of Morrowind currently being sold for X-box DOES include all of "Bloodmoon".

Well someone beat me to it.

[Vilkacis]

I've tried to load it on my laptop (which I loathe...man I hate that thing). It's newer, but my mother got it from work, so it's got Windows 2000 Professional on it (I think...). It installed just fine but every time I try to play it I get a window that says "Render creation error" and it doesn't work. Can I fix it? Or do I have to suffer through using my old computer (which, strangely, runs all of my other games just fine)?

I bought it just recently, too. I don't think I got the exact same error you did, but I did have a bit of trouble getting it to work on my laptop. Eventually I got it working, though, by installing all of the CDs (the patches are on the Bloodmoon CD) and telling it to run in window mode instead of full screen.

Sorry I can't be more of a help than that.

-- Vilkacis

[Fenrir]

Set, did you get it new or used?

[Shadow Wulf]

Try messing with refresh rate of the moniter. Go to property, settings, advance, adapter.

[Aki]

*ressurects topic* Gather your bones, shake the dust from your limbs...rise! Ahahahahaha!

I purchased the Game Of The Year edition of Morrowind last month, and it's gotten quite addictive. Problem is on my old computer it occasionally freezes for a minute and then starts running again. I've got it on the lowest settings possible, as my computer is probably as old as I am, but I still find it annoying.

I've tried to load it on my laptop (which I loathe...man I hate that thing). It's newer, but my mother got it from work, so it's got Windows 2000 Professional on it (I think...). It installed just fine but every time I try to play it I get a window that says "Render creation error" and it doesn't work. Can I fix it? Or do I have to suffer through using my old computer (which, strangely, runs all of my other games just fine)?

The 'freezing' may be loading. If its hapening while traveling in the wilds it most likely is, if its in a city, the computer's crap..

Of course, Morrowind's engine isn't the most stable one...

[Morkulv]

first of all it is morrowind

sorry but you can't become a werewolf in the xbox
it is the expansion bloodmoon wich enable the werewolf transformation the PC version of morrowind

There is something called Morrowind GOTY on the XBox, includes all the expansions.

[Set]

Set, did you get it new or used?

I got it new, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with the disk.

The 'freezing' may be loading. If its hapening while traveling in the wilds it most likely is, if its in a city, the computer's crap..

The loading comes up with a little box on the bottom that says "Loading Area", so I know it's not that. It'll do that both in the city and out in the wild. It does it alot in Seyda Neen for some reason.

[Vuldari]

Are we talking about the X-Box version or the PC version here?


I have the PC version, and can speak from experience that the Morrowind game engine is VERY glitchy and finicky.

On my OLD, inferior graphics card, I was able to get morrowind to run as close to perfect as is possible in that game. (No matter what you do, there will ALWAYS be a little frame-stutter). In fact, it was running so smoothly that my brother could not believe it, because he had a much more powerful PC and it did not run as well on his.

...and then I got a NEW graphics card... (My old one was not compatable with DirrectX9, which is Required to play "ElderScrolls IV:OBLIVION")

Now, on my newer, faster, better graphics card, Morrowind has now been lagging and locking up all over the place. It's driving me NUTS!

I've updated all of my drivers, messed around with the graphics card settings, game settings, and everything I can think of, but now, once I've been playing for more than a 1/2 hour, I sometimes cant take two steps without the the game lagging badly, about 1 frame per second (or less). It will usually become playable again after a minute or two, (for a little while), but its frustrating as hell.

...it was running nearly "Perfect" untill I upgraded...


Grrrrrrrrr...


This kind of thing is imfamously common with this game.


...that's why Bethesda is taking so long to finish the sequel. They are not adding new dungeons or content to "oblivion". ...they are just debuging it. ...and debuging, and debuging, and debuging some more...


If you find a way to fix this that actually works, please let me know. I'm probobly going to be playing Morrowind again as soon as I log off here. That game ROCKS!!!! (The last time I played, I was promoted to "ARCH-MAGE" of the mages guild...all of them...in the game. LVL-54)

[Set]

Are we talking about the X-Box version or the PC version here?

I don't have an X-box. It's for the PC. I thought that was a little obvious, me griping about computers and all...

[Searif]

Prepare to wait a while as well, the construction set shows that you have roughly a one percent chance of running into a randomly generated werewolf on Soltheim, oddly enough, I ran into a werewolf the first day I had the expansion installed.

tell me if i already mentioned it but there is a cave that has a werewolf in it, although it has a lock level of 100 its fairly simple to find a scroll that unlocks 100 so yeah, but after you get in there, there is that fact of how long you can survive a werewolf beating you, so for that do not be a red-gaurd

[Kzinistzerg]

gettin a bti ahead o yourself....


I can't offer much advice, set, except that if you;r determined enough, you'll be able to gain a coninuosity (i don't think that's a word) of play even if the computer crashes every five minutes.

Be warned, MW is EXTREMLY addictive (if you;re addicted now, wait untill you get the pangs of 'i must play morrowind' six ombnths after you ununstall it) . as Aki said, it's virtual crack.

(ooh, and vuldari, i never got to arch mage, but i did get to level 74, without cheating, nyah nyah [/stupidchildishsnobbymorrowindaddictedness])

[Vuldari]

(ooh, and vuldari, i never got to arch mage, but i did get to level 74, without cheating, nyah nyah [/stupidchildishsnobbymorrowindaddictedness])

It's funny...I was so shocked when I leveled up to 51.

I had restarted the game several times before this round, playing as different characters, usually stopping at level 30 or so, and I was convinced that level 50 was the highest level in the game. (I did not bother to look that up...I just assumed I was right).

Honestly, I can't imagine any need to level up any higher than 50. Almost everything in my characters stats is maxed out at 100 (or higher, with stat enchancing items) without cheating.
(Even though my character is a race that is not normally in the game, I balanced it's stats as fairly as all of the default races, and did not give it any unfair extra abilities or bonuses...just "Beast Tounge" and "Eye of Fear", each of which can only be used once a Day.)

I can enchant superpowerful weapons myself, and take on just about any character in the game without even trying. Seroiusly...lately, I've been running around inside of the ghostgate just beating up everything I run into for fun, and to collect souls. I enchanted a daedric broadsword (0-57 damage normally + 54 damage heath "on strike") that I named Rubilacxe ("Excalibur" Backwards) which will kill all weaker foes with a single strike, and stronger ones with three. (Or one, if I sneak up and get a "critical" hit). ...but I don't even need that, because I'm so strong, even wearing NO armor whatsoever, (none of my armor skills is above 15), that I like to beat-up the Acended Sleepers, Winged Twilights, and Ogrim Titans with the "Staff of Magnus" (attack level of only 0-13 with No bonus).

I defeated "Trobonius", the former Arch-Mage, with only my hand-to-hand combat skills, and never even had to heal myself.


...level 74...WOW. I'm allready nearly unstoppable. Your character must be a Living God!


Morrowind is AWESOME! There are so many different ways to play, and so much to do.

...I can hardly wait for "Oblivion".