I've been looking on the official morrowind forums and a lot of people are having the same problems...I've updated all my drivers and messed with bios settings, tweaked my graphics card settings with the GTU,

People are even saying it's the safedisk protection that is causing the slowdowns on some systems... *sigh* I'll keep trying though...

Yeah, something's definitely wrong with your system, #8. I'm running Morrowind on a tbird 1100 with a gf3 ti200 and it's more than playable at 1024. I even have the view distance set in the middle and have even enabled some real time shadows. Either you're running at 1600x1200 with fsaa or something's really wrong.

I have pretty much half that performance of the system you listed - 700 MHz P3, GF2MX.

I can get 20 FPS in towns on this system. Something is wrong with your system somehwere thats' creating a bottleneck.

I have a gf4 ti 4600 and an athlon thunderbird 1400 mhz and this game runs like shit....what the fuck is wrong with this engine...I have the visiblity distance all the way down and in the towns it goes down to 20 fps

GRAAAHHHH!!! makes me want to scoop out my eyes with spoons...

"We were aiming for about 200 hours of gameplay and ended up with around 500. Oops. :)"

Rarely do you get both quantity and quality in one game. And that's not counting all those mods being released. w00t!

Who needs multiplayer ...

Yep, water does look nice.

The game is stupid dope.i cant BELIEVE how cool it is.
running on a monster system(P4 2.0a "Northwood",1 Gig RDRAM,Ge4 Ti4600) the game is like a movie......and the water...well....they pretty much friggin nailed it did'nt they!! Holy shiznit....

Hear hear! Morrowind does indeed rule. And it even runs on my Voodoo5.

Vivec is just plain enormous. That was probably the point when I realized, "Y'know, I don't think I'm ever going to see everything in this game. I might as well not even worry about it."

I just spent three and a half hours questing...and I never left Vivec. Almost four hours in one city, and that's like a hundredth of the area of the game world, and that's not counting all the running around I've done in the city before, and I didn't even go to three of the cantons. This game could take me all summer to beat; I'm one of the "join every faction and get every quest" people, so I've joined groups as disparate as the Imperial Guard, the Imperial Cult, the Imperial Temple, the Mages, Fighters, and Thieves Guild, and even the Marog Tong. No one particularly likes me for that last one, I notice. But it's fun...the game is such a timesink, it's unbelievable. Too bad it won't sell half of what Dungeon Siege will, probably, but it deserves all the success it gets. I'm still boggled by the size of the game world; it's beyond anything I've ever seen rendered into 3D.

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Amen to that, brother. Morrowind is fucking rad.

Although I have to admit--I'm never totally happy with any game... The Elder Scrolls Construction Set allows me to change that.

Thanks, Bethesda. It was worth the wait.

Fucking kicks ass.