Three Morrowind Questions (mods and computer specs)

Post » Thu May 03, 2012 10:57 pm

So i'm getting Morrowind, and I have a laptop that can't run Skyrim, so I got that for the Xbox.
I figure that I'll probably still be able to run Morrowind on it, but I don't know anything about
computers so I thought I should check first. How are these system specs for Morrowind?

Windows Vista (Home Premium) 64bit
4.00 GB RAM
T6400 @ 2.00 GHz
hard drive (Local Disk): 191 GB free of 285 GB
and my computer's telling me I shouldn't do anything with the recovery disk...
Intel? Core?2 Duo CPU

Okay, that's everything under my system properties. I can't find anything about a graphics card, but there's this Windows rating system (1 through 5.9) and my gaming graphics is 4.6.

Second question: I'm very clumsy with gaming on my laptop. Can you use a wired Xbox controller for Morrowind on the PC?

Third question: Regarding mods, I have no idea what i'm doing, but they're the only reason i'm really getting Morrowind for the PC
instead of the Xbox, so I can do graphics overhaul and such. Are mods difficult to install and use for a complete noob? Seriously, I know
nothing about mods and am not very computer savvy in terms of navigating my computer to find files.

-Thanks everybody
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 12:59 am

So i'm getting Morrowind, and I have a laptop that can't run Skyrim, so I got that for the Xbox.
I figure that I'll probably still be able to run Morrowind on it, but I don't know anything about
computers so I thought I should check first. How are these system specs for Morrowind?

Windows Vista (Home Premium) 64bit
4.00 GB RAM
T6400 @ 2.00 GHz
hard drive (Local Disk): 191 GB free of 285 GB
and my computer's telling me I shouldn't do anything with the recovery disk...
Intel? Core?2 Duo CPU

Okay, that's everything under my system properties. I can't find anything about a graphics card, but there's this Windows rating system (1 through 5.9) and my gaming graphics is 4.6.

Second question: I'm very clumsy with gaming on my laptop. Can you use a wired Xbox controller for Morrowind on the PC?

Third question: Regarding mods, I have no idea what i'm doing, but they're the only reason i'm really getting Morrowind for the PC
instead of the Xbox, so I can do graphics overhaul and such. Are mods difficult to install and use for a complete noob? Seriously, I know
nothing about mods and am not very computer savvy in terms of navigating my computer to find files.

-Thanks everybody
We need to know which graphics card you have.To find out:
Open Start > Run type "dxdiag"(without the quotes),then go to the "display" tab,your graphics card and VRAM will be displayed in the "device" area on that tab.I
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 11:18 am

This it?
Chip Type: GeForce 9200M GS
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 10:07 pm

This it?
Chip Type: GeForce 9200M GS
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
You should be able to play the vanilla game well,but forget about graphics overhaul mods.
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:19 pm

That was sort of the reason I was getting it for the computer instead of the Xbox.
Will I be able to do anything about the graphics, or atleast the draw distance?
Will I be able to run other mods?
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Post » Thu May 03, 2012 9:32 pm

You could probably get the distant land feature working with the Morrowind Graphics Extender, but I'm not sure what the frame rate will look like with it on. The Sound and Graphics Overhaul mod would probably be too much for that card, but just some basic stuff like Better Bodies and some texture replacers should work great.
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 9:27 am

That was sort of the reason I was getting it for the computer instead of the Xbox.
Will I be able to do anything about the graphics, or atleast the draw distance?
Will I be able to run other mods?
You could probably get the distant land feature working with the Morrowind Graphics Extender, but I'm not sure what the frame rate will look like with it on. The Sound and Graphics Overhaul mod would probably be too much for that card, but just some basic stuff like Better Bodies and some texture replacers should work great.
I've had an 8600 GT that was about 4x more powerful than his current card and I've still had problems with the distant land feature.Just forget about it OP.Better bodies should work great,but texture replacers might not,depending on your resolution.Other mods should run fine.
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Post » Fri May 04, 2012 1:28 am

Ok, thanks for your help guys
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