05-19-2005, 10:33 PM
Hi, NiteFox,
Hmmm, really quite puzzling. I have a machine that just meets or barely exceeds minimum specs, yet it sounds like I get better performance than you do.
Here's a tip that Drasca posted a couple of months ago:
"Tip for improving MW performance: Morrowind uses a lot of threads. Turn off every other program and unuseful service (which should happen regardless), then go to task manager and set Morrowind's service priority to LOW. (Optional: Go to Control panels-->System-->Advanced tab-->Performance-->Processor scheduling. Set cache to 'optimize for backround services') What happens is that Morrowind's threads collide with each other each demanding CPU time. When set to low priority, they somehow balance each other out and since no other services are drawing huge CPU time, Morrowind is free to use the CPU time for its own threads.
Strange, but true. MW takes more CPU time for its threads in backround services than for the game rendering itself."
I haven't played the game since I saw that, so I don't know if it would help my system or not.
IIRC, I think the system tweak that gave me the most benefit was to increase the size of my swap file (way beyond what was is normally recommended as a maximum).
However, the best performance boost I got was from using the fps_optimizer.
http://www.elderscrolls.net/morrowind/do...imizer.htm
I think I downloaded it from some other user site, but couldn't find an English-language alternative when I googled the file name. There are some drawbacks to using the Optimizer, but after I got used to it, I tried playing without and quickly decided to go back to using it. Try it, it might help enough to make the game playable.
Regards,
Dako-ta
NiteFox,May 14 2005, 08:12 PM Wrote:I gather there's a whole slew of Elder Scrolls: Morrowind fans here? Yes? Good. Just bought the GOTY edition (Morrowind and the two expansions), and in theory I have more than enough of a machine to run it with all the damned bells and whistles a-ringin' and a-tootin'. Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8GHz), 1GB of RAM, GeForceFX 5200 with 128MB of memory. Still running 98SE though.
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Hmmm, really quite puzzling. I have a machine that just meets or barely exceeds minimum specs, yet it sounds like I get better performance than you do.
Here's a tip that Drasca posted a couple of months ago:
"Tip for improving MW performance: Morrowind uses a lot of threads. Turn off every other program and unuseful service (which should happen regardless), then go to task manager and set Morrowind's service priority to LOW. (Optional: Go to Control panels-->System-->Advanced tab-->Performance-->Processor scheduling. Set cache to 'optimize for backround services') What happens is that Morrowind's threads collide with each other each demanding CPU time. When set to low priority, they somehow balance each other out and since no other services are drawing huge CPU time, Morrowind is free to use the CPU time for its own threads.
Strange, but true. MW takes more CPU time for its threads in backround services than for the game rendering itself."
I haven't played the game since I saw that, so I don't know if it would help my system or not.
IIRC, I think the system tweak that gave me the most benefit was to increase the size of my swap file (way beyond what was is normally recommended as a maximum).
However, the best performance boost I got was from using the fps_optimizer.
http://www.elderscrolls.net/morrowind/do...imizer.htm
I think I downloaded it from some other user site, but couldn't find an English-language alternative when I googled the file name. There are some drawbacks to using the Optimizer, but after I got used to it, I tried playing without and quickly decided to go back to using it. Try it, it might help enough to make the game playable.
Regards,
Dako-ta