I recently began to play through Morrowind, I really love the game and I am using the overhaul mod with all setting maxed up. Except for.. I am playing in 800*600. I can play it in 1920*1080 also and tried that, but for some reason I prefer the low resolution.. It makes everything more soft and not so sharp. I have notice I can like this in other games to. If you have the resolution maxed out it is so easy to see all the faults that you dont see on a lower resolution. You see every sharp cut in the models and everything looks a bit more "sterile".

Am I strange for liking to play in such a lower resolution then what I could do? Anyone else who like this?

I made some screenshots of small and big resolutions. The big resolution looks very nice, but I still like the more pixelated smaller ones, you may need to zoom in a bit to see because the lower resolution gives much smaller screenshots. (ctrl + mouse weel)

1920*1080-1600*900:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4047131/MyPublic/MGE%20Screenshot%20002x.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4047131/MyPublic/MGE%20Screenshot%20002.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4047131/MyPublic/MGE%20Screenshot%20001x.png

800*600:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4047131/MyPublic/MGE%20Screenshot%20004.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4047131/MyPublic/MGE%20Screenshot%20005.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4047131/MyPublic/MGE%20Screenshot%20009.png

well, 800x600 will be stretched to fit the screen so you will see some distortion there, but really its personal preference on this one.

Might give a 16:9 resolution a try to avoid stretching.

I play many older games in a low res, similiar to the res I had back when I first played them. For example, if I play Thief 1&2 I play them in 640x480. And I like to do it in Morrowind too cause otherwise the text and icons on the screen are so damn tiny

I prefer how Morrowind looks completely unmodded, so you're at least not as crazy as me

(played every main series Elder Scrolls game on PC, only mod I've ever used is a custom-made one on Morrowind to replace the night eye effect on Azura's Ring with a 20 pt Feather enchantment)

The lower resolution and a hint of blur can be easier on the eyes, and the bigger text is less of a strain as well. There are some things I like about higher resolution, and others I don't. To me, I'll happily play it either way and not worry about the settings.

I prefer to play old games in their default resolutions. So that means I'll leave it at 1024 x 768 for Morrowind. No graphical mods, no MGE, no anti-aliasing. It's as original as it gets.

Even when I play Arena or Daggerfall in DOSBox I'll disable all of that "smoothing" filter nonsense so that the pixels appear as crisp and as blocky as possible. 320 x 200 baby!

EDIT: Also I'll turn on the aspect ratio setting in the nvidia control panel so that the display won't be stretched on my 16:10 monitor. I don't mind the side letterboxes at all.

Your 800x600 screens look fantastic to me. The one little thing I don't like about them, though, is that 800x600 makes the HUD take up more space on the screen. I prefer to keep my HUDs as small and as unobtrusive as possible. But if a larger HUD doesn't bother you, then there's no problem.