This is bad for performance and is one of the game’s primary FPS bottlenecks. Vanilla Morrowind has objects split into different shapes each using its own unique texture. The creators also recommend downloading Project Atlas, a mod that corrects one of Morrowind‘s biggest performance downfalls: Morrowind Optimisation Patch works to fix a lot of the game’s performance issues outdoors, although there are some frame rate benefits indoors too. Just because a game is older doesn’t mean it’ll run as well as it should. Delayed DB Attack makes sure the assassins don’t show up until a more reasonable time. That’s all well and good, except it usually happens far too early in the plot, and before the player has hit a certain level. Delayed Dark Brotherhood AttackĪfter you reach a certain stage in Morrowind, you’ll come across assassins from the Dark Brotherhood who would like to have a word. Morrowind by default isn’t quite on board with this logic, so Run Faster fixes that. Run FasterĪ leisurely stroll can be nice when you’re going for a hike, but in video games we’ve got places to go. The creators note that you might need a levelled list merging tool ( OMWLLF is great for this!), just in case you use other mods that also mess with Morrowind‘s backend in the same way. The impact is that people come and go throughout the towns and taverns of Tamriel, making Morrowind‘s world a little less static. So what Morrowind Comes Alive tries to do is help flesh out the world a little more, ensuring that 1200 NPCs in the game have unique appearances, with all of those NPCs set on a rotation to appear and disappear over time.

Procedural generation has come a long way, but Morrowind was made in a time where some of those advancements were still in development. Morrowind Code Patch tries to resolve some of the more frustrating bugs that result in hard crashes and corrupted save files, and is compatible with any version of Morrowind. Perhaps the most important quality-of-life fix: a mod that stops crashes.

Other benefits in the latest MGE XE version include a per-pixel renderer for improved global lighting, borderless windowed mode, the ability to scale the game’s UI, better antialiasing on grass and static textures, and a host of other small tweaks. (The makers do also recommend the Better Dialogue Font mod, which makes all the journal, dialogue and menu text much more readable, without changing the size.) There’s also some very handy features for dealing with higher resolutions and larger screens, like UI scaling.

It effectively allows the game to render more things at distance, while also improved the game’s shaders and shadow quality. Morrowind Graphics Extender XE, or MGE XE as it’s commonly called, is one of the must-have graphical overhauls for the RPG.

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