Hi, I've recently gotten into Morrowind after playing quite a lot of Oblivion and Skyrim. I'm loving the game so far. One thing I really like is how the entire interface fits on the screen at once, no tabs to mess around with.

Anyway I searched but I couldn't find out if what I'm experiencing is a problem or if it's normal for the game. I'm trying to get some details about the active effects on my character, which I believe are shown in the bottom right corner of the screen and also just below the top of the magic menu. I see a series of blue square icons and one red one (I think I got hit by a drain attribute spell or something similar). Can I get any more details about these effects beyond just the tiny icons? For example, when I mouse over most parts of the interface I get nice tooltips with further detail. I'm not getting any such tooltips when mousing over or clicking on the active effect icons, so I really have no idea what the icons mean, or if they have a duration, etc.

Sorry if there is an obvious answer to this or if it's in the wrong subforum. I'm just assuming this issue is a bug but I could be wrong.

You can get tooltips about active effects when in inventory mode. Just right-click to open inventory. Now hover over the icons to see those effects

Aaand welcome to the Forums

Thanks a lot! But I think that's exactly my problem. When I right click and have the full menu open (inventory, map, magic menu, etc) I've tried hovering over the effect icons and I don't see any details popping up. I'm getting tooltips for every other part of the interface. i.e. When I mouse over my list of spells I get popups for each of them. Only my active effect details aren't showing up.

I can try to experiment with my load order but I don't have any mods that should be affecting the interface. I'm just running MCP, MPP, MGE, and a few housing/clothing mods.

There are same icons on spell list window too. Try those.

If those too won't work, then there is something wrong. This is a new problem to me. Somebody with more experience might be able to help you.

Same situation with the icons in the spell window and also in the bottom right corner of the screen. As you said, it definitely seems like there's something wrong.

Thanks for your help by the way. I guess I'll try reinstalling at some point, though if anyone has any further insight that would be great.

Just a hunch.

You might have a mod with dirty GMST. It causes weird errors with naming of spells etc. You say you have MCP installed. Is it latest Stable version or Beta? In the new beta, there is option to disable showing empty messages. The combination of those two **might** cause this.

If you didn't install the MCP beta, then thats not it.