Crash and i haven't even begun

babylon5uk · Post by **babylon5uk** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 1:10 am

I have just purchased Morrowind, looks good, but aas soon as i click space bar to view my created character the game crashes and throws me back to windows.

Has anyone else experienced this, if so do you know whats causing it.

Athlon 700Mhz
Nvidia riva tnt2 m64
256 Mb Ram

Quicksilver · Post by **Quicksilver** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:18 am

Make sure you have got the latest drivers for your soundcard installed. Also, have you definately installed Direct X 8.1 from the Morrowind CD? These solved all the performance problems I had

Ares2382 · Post by **Ares2382** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 11:57 am

update video card drivers too, I had a similar problem and that helped.

K0r/\/f1@k€$ · Post by **K0r/\/f1@k€$** » Fri Jun 14, 2002 3:35 pm

Are you running Win2k? I got occasional random crashes and ~20 minute load times until I updated to Service Pack 2.

robu · Post by **robu** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 11:47 am

Crash at Random...

Bought Morrowind... I had DX8.1 installed.. I updated my sound drivers, my video card (GF3 Ti200--though anything above the Detonator v.21.83 seems to suck for me)..

The game starts alright.. it'll usually let me get to the part that you select the characters face, etc. then locks up. Or it locks up as soon as I get into the building. The farthest I've made it in the game so far is the armor shop in the first town. Yes, I've tried turning everything down graphic-wise.. I don't think that's the problem. I get the music and everything.. I just don't know.
I've talked to the tech people--and all they sad was "Update your drivers". No real help.

Any suggestions? I really want to play this game--I think it's going to be wicked good...I just can't so far.

Ares2382 · Post by **Ares2382** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 12:09 pm

robu it would really help if you could tell me the system specs of your comp as well as the OS that you are running.

robu · Post by **robu** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 9:25 pm

Specs:
OS: Win98
512MB, PC133, Atlas Precision RAM
GeForce3 Ti200
AC'97 onboard sound (with the newest drivers)
Athlon T-bird, 900MHz
ECS K7VZA Mainboard
400watt power supply
B'bam. That should cover it.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 5:07 am

There are a few tricks to try, such as turning down some of the settings. Try playing it at 800x600 and setting your desktop to the same resolution. Change the options so that there are no real time shadows (they don't do much of anything anyway) and put your sound quality to low.

To check if it is a conflict with your sound driver, open morrowind.ini with notepad (backing it up first of course

) and change the following key: disable sound=0 (change the zero to a one) See if that helps.

robu · Post by **robu** » Thu Jun 27, 2002 1:28 pm

Tried:

..so I tried all that stuff. Turned down real-time shadows. Played at 800x600 (which it was at anyway), set my desktop to that. Disabled sound...

...and it locked up.

What now, o gods of gaming trouble?