I just installed Sir Bob's Dark UI for Morrowind and while I loved the new look, I was not happy with the washed out colors. After looking through some comments, I thought that I could change the washed out appearance by switching to another screen res and bit rate. Not only were the colors still washed out, I had the addition of two black bars on the side of my screen. Since I'd rather have a full screen then slightly washed out menus, I reverted everything back to its default configuration. I still had those ugly black bars on my screen. After re-installing a clean copy of Morrowind, I still had those ugly black bars. I can't seem to get rid of them.

Here's the machine that we are dealing with (don't laugh, I know it svcks):
Gateway LT21
Intel Atom CPU N450 @1.66 GHz
32-bit Windows 7 starter
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150
1064x600 resolution
32 bit True Color

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Morrowind (natively) doesn't format resolutions (pillar-box ; letter-box) it simply stretches the output to fix the resolution. I would check your screen settings. Alternatively, you could force Morrowind to display in your monitor's (laptop's screen) native resolution.

edit: Looks like your laptop/net-book runs at a native resolution of: 1024 x 600. Etiher modify the registry to input those settings or use MGE.

I've been checking for a way to make my video card or morrowind to stretch the output like it did before, but I'm not having any luck whatsoever.

just saw your edit. For some reason, MGE deletes a necessary dll file when I start it up, making me re-install yet again.

Nevermind. Have you tried modifying the registry. Morrowind's registry keys should located in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind

or

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind

Find the entries Screen Height and Screen Width (make sure you change to Decimal) and change to your native resolution.

ok, I found it under local, but no screen entries. One file folder (called morrowind ofc) has two items in it. both deal with the path of the game. I can't edit screen res or size. In fact when I click on it, the only value I can edit is its name and installed path.

You might have to manually add them if they weren't created/initialized.

Go back into:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind

in the right panel, right-click and select New DWORD (32-bit) value. Make one Screen Height and another Screen Width. Again make sure you save the value in Decimal (not Hexadecimal) or enter the correct value listed below.

Screen Width is 1024 (decimal) or 400 (hexadecimal)
Screen Height is 600 (decimal) or 258 (hexadecimal)


edit: oops... screwed up width and height... fixed

nothing. :brokencomputer:

this is just not my day. My brother in law ate all my Popsicles and ice cream along with drinking my whole [censored] pint of heavy whipping cream that I was going to use to bake scones... :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Solved. I restored my system to 10/20. Seems to have fixed the problem.