MGE XE framerate mystery : III - Morrowind

» Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:34 am

Although it'd be handy to know what resolution you're running at. If you're trying to run it at 1440x900+ then it's no wonder it's crawling. Drop the resolution and you'll claw back the frame rate.

Pixel throughput is rarely the problem for Morrowind on modern hardware, so high resolutions will run about as well (or poorly) as low. This will depend on your card, but other factors are far more significant.

» Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:55 am

Before over clocking any more you might want to check your temps. But to be honest, I doubt it would make any difference. I have a fairly hefty PC, over clocked to 3ghz (Q6600, 4GB Ram, nvidia260) and I generally play with distant land on at about 8, statics at 50 all standard XE shaders loaded and I get anything from 15 - 30 fps. Its just an old game. Even without MGE atall I rarely get above 40fps

If you look at my picture gallery you can see how it looks on my setup, i never go under 30fps and usually it maxes my monitors refresh rate at 60. I run MGE XE but i turn off those atmospheric affects etc. I think people might be using the wrong settings on MGE XE something.