A few of you might remember me needing help with my steam version of Morrowind starting up. Well, it starts now, but I'm having some graphical problems, one is kinda serious.

First off, I don't mind this, but for some reason doors will flash in and out of exsistence as I walk towards them, until I get pretty close. I don't care about this, it doesn't affect gameplay at all.

The second problem is pretty big though. Water randomly flashes white when I look down at it, or I look into a large body of water. It will flash rapidly. This really hurts my eyes and I can't see anything in the water, which is a problem, because I'm an argonian. One of my biggest advantages is water breathing, and it doesn't do me any good. The water also looks kinda like cement, but I figured this was because my computer isn't very great.

I also noticed NPCs were moving slideshow-like, very choppy, in the distance. Again, don't really care about this.

I can run the game on a relatively far draw distance, farther than I figured I would be able to anyways. Here is my video card, because this is probably the problem: Intel® 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family, DAC Type: Internal, Approx. Total Memory: 128 MB.

Not good, I know. But EVERYTHING else in the game except for water and doors look very good for my crappy video card. Is there a setting I can mess with to fix this?

Here is my list of Warnings too:
Failed to create shader Shaders\FauxEMBM_Displace.vso

Unable to load vertexshader file: FauxEMBM_Displace.vso
Texture "Textures\Tx_rock_WG_01.tga" count 3.
Texture "Textures\_land_default.tga" count 3.
Texture "Textures\menu_thick_border_bottom_right_corner.dds" count 2.

I don't know if that has anything to do with it though.
Thanks in advance.

Make sure pixel shader water is turned off and try decreasing your view distance.

I'm not familiar with the 910GL in specific, but I know most Intel chips before the 2000/3000 series have serious problems with shaders (Intel actually violated the D3D spec by falsely advertising their chips as compatible). Turning off water will help with that.

Decreasing view distance means less will be drawn each frame, which may be able to help with your flickering issues.

I didn't see an option for that, but I'll look into it.
I'm probably going to get a cheap graphics card though, to be honest. I've heard I can get a decent one, maybe even good enough to run Oblivion, for 20-30 bucks. I'm on a small budget, and I was hoping to get BF3 (console obviously :tongue: ) on release, but if I get a new card I can just get BF2. I'm getting into PC gaming now, but I won't have a major job until next summer, so I can't build anything yet.

I'm only 15 by the way, which is why I can't afford much, though I'm generally pretty tech savvy. In fact, the job I have lined up is Perl scripting, if you can believe it. I have a horrible time dealing with graphics cards though. Graphics in general. I know my way around a computer, except for the graphics. It's annoying, because when gaming, that seems to be a pretty big deal.

Sorry if I bored you, I tend to ramble on a bit... Thanks for the help though.

Graphics is fun. Fun enough that the simple answer to most questions is "I have no idea". It's the perl of hardware; looks simple, incredibly complex, with love and patience, you can make it do things that should be impossible.

As far as picking up a card, I wouldn't go for a 20-30 one. You're not gonna get any performance. However, you can pick up some good cards dirt-cheap off of Newegg (if you're in the US). $50-60 will get you a card that may even be able to run BF3, on low. Definitely check out their daily and weekend sales if you can. If you have any other troubles or questions, or are bored, drop into the MW irc channel (chatspike.net, #morrowind). The guys there know a good bit.