I've been in love with Bethesda's games ever since I got Oblivion on my 11th birthday. I just recently considered downloading Morrowind, since I constantly hear how wonderful it is, and I would like to know how much space it takes up.

I don't know the exacts, but barely anything. It's an old game, it really won't make any difference to anything.

Unmodded Morrowind takes up something around 1 GB.


Morrowind can be rather tough at first and only really opens up once you've got a few levels under your belt. The main trick is in not giving up and surviving those earliest few levels. You may want to read up a little on the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Morrowind_for_Oblivion_Players

I think the easiest combinations of race and class for a beginner are:
- Bosmer or Dunmer Assassin
- Bosmer or Dunmer Archer
- Breton Battlemage
- Nord or Redguard Crusader
- Imperial or Redguard Knight
- Redguard Scout
- Breton Spellsword

For all of these I would recommend the Lady birthsign. Maybe you could take Atronach instead for the Battlemage and Spellsword, but I find that for a beginner Lady would be more beneficial and in the long term you will be super strong either way.

For actual gameplay I recommend staying in the starter town (Seyda Neen) for a while and doing a local quest or two. Then when you think you're ready try clearing out the local smuggler cave as a test of your skill. When you leave Seyda Neen travel to Balmora with the Silt Strider (giant bug bus). It costs money but at least you won't get lost or killed on the way. Once in Balmora you can join a faction or two and do the easy introductory quests.

A few general gameplay tips:
- Talk to all NPCs about Latest Rumors, Little Advice, Little Secret, and Morrowind Lore and pay attention to what they say.
- The arrow on the minimap in the lower right corner shows which direction you are facing. Up = north, left = west and so on.
- Fatigue influences everything from combat to spellcasting to persuasion. Make sure you Fatigue bar is full before you get into a fight, it will make a big difference.
- Make sure you're using a weapon in which you are skilled. Remember that Axes are not Blunt Weapons, they have their own skill. Blades are also divided into Short Blades (daggers & shortsword) and Long Blades (longswords & claymores).
- If you're on the PC you can assign your hotkeys by pressing F1 on your keyboard. And when you're selling or looting or managing your inventory you can automatically select all items in a batch by holding shift pressed while you click on it. Holding ctrl pressed will automatically select only 1 item.
- Save a lot and in different slots.
- If you have either of the expansions you can filter journal entries by quest. Just click on "options" (lower left) and then on "quests" (on the right page) and pick the relevant quest. You can also use "options" and then "topics" to see everything anyone has ever told you about a certain conversation topic.
- If you are any good with Conjuration consider using a Bound weapon spell. Bound weapons will kill most enemies with only a couple of hits and they even fortify their relevant weapon skill by 10 points.

^ Thanks very much for the advice.

However, I'm having a problem loading it up, now. I click the play button on the launcher and the window closes, but the game never loads up.

Edit: Now I'm having trouble with the "failed to load snowflake meshes bm_snow_01.nif" thing.

I'm not familiar with steam installation, but this could be another UAC issue if you're running the game on Vista. First try to right-click on the launch exe and select "Run As Administrator".

All is resolved. I simply reinstalled everything.