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My computer meets all the requirements to play Morrowind, but the game is still SUPER chopy on my PC... does anybody know a possible reason for this???

My PC:

OS:Windows (98Second edition)
32MB ATI All in Wonder Rage Pro
385 MB Ram (not quite sure)
685 Pentium 3

if you need anymore info on the PC just post it in your replies... tnx

Make sure your Sound and Video card drivers are current, and make sure you have DirectX 8.1 or higher. To improve game performance, set the Real-Time Shadows slider all the way to off, and move the View Distance Slider to about 80%. Set the AI Distance Slider slightly less than 50%. You may have to switch your sound card setting from Full Acceleration to Standard.

The All in wonder card should work - but the rage pro chipset is a bit dated. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to a Geforce 4 TI 4200 - you can get one for less than $150 online and it is the best card for the money available.

Honestly - it seems that 90% of the folks with problems running new games like NWN and Morrowind are using ATI cards. What is the attraction? Nvidia's products are far and away the developers choice - and if the games are built using their chipsets - they will play better with them.

Sorry for the rant - if you want an objective opinion check out tomshardware.com.

Just to try and balance the view of the Ge Force mafia

I run Morrowind on an ATI Radeon 8500 and it looks fantastic.

But you are going to have problems running any newer game on that hardware. You should maybe look at the new Radeon 9700 which should be shipping in the US fairly soon if not now. Although to do it justice you would probably need a new motherboard/processor/RAM combination which would get expensive in a hurry!

Just a side note - If you get PC Gamer magazine (I know how much more mainstream can you get). They have an interesting article this month on upgrades. They compare results using a rather old Pentium II 233 system and trying various combinations of upgrades of video cards, memory, and CPU/motherboard.

One of their conclusions was that you could get a significant jump in performace with a video card upgrade even on a lower end system - since you are using a Pentium III processor with an OK clockspeed and adequate memory - you might want to look at the video card upgrade first.

This may buy you a year or so before you are forced to upgrade your processor/mbd.

I run morrowind on a Athlon 850 with 256 meg of SDram and a Geforce 2 and get very good framerates with medium detail settings.

I could go on all day...signing off for now...

Sincerely,

The Nvidia Mafia

Im running it on a ATI Radeon all-in-wonder 7500
runs and looks great. frame rate never drops below 30FPS!
I did tweek the ini abit to get that rate though

im running it on xbox, lol

I am running it on a ti4200 also without any notable problems, try going here and reading the thread, it might help.