Morrowind Graphics Extender

[Povuholo]

AmazingChopin, your cell distance is really high. I'm not sure what distant static sizes you're using, or what kind of computer you have, but I think many people will get low framerates with such settings plus all those shaders unless they have a very powerful PC. :D

 

I thought I'd post a little view distance comparison, so people can figure out for themselves what they want to use and how big the differences between the draw distances are.

 

Vanilla view distance (looks lower than usual because I'm up high somewhere. Still, this is the maximum vanilla view distance.)

 

MGE Draw Distance 4 Cells (My favourite to keep the old Morrowind atmosphere in place, while still offering a considerable view distance increase. Good performance too.)

 

MGE Draw Distance 8 Cells

 

MGE Draw Distance 15 Cells

 

MGE Draw Distance 30 Cells

 

Look at my map. My cursor shows where I am (Tamriel Rebuilt territory). The furthest you can see with a cell distance of 30 is from there until the mountain, which is the dark spot in the middle of the map.That's how far you're seeing, pretty much the whole island. :D

 

My Distant Land Settings

 

 

If you want Godrays like in oblivion

Morrowind had them first. :P

[Amazingchopin]

@Povuholo

 

Well, I thought it was normal around 30 cells O.o

Thank you, that you've said here. I mean, wow I didn't know...

 

Well, thank you for the explanation :)

 

 

Amazingchopin

[Grottmanuel]

Sorry, double post! Edited November 13, 2010 by Grottmanuel

[Grottmanuel]

@Amazingchopin

 

 

Thank you so much for all the information and help! You're a lifesaver! :)

 

I got a final (hopefully xD) question though: have you got any mod for clouds specificly? I've tried Vurts Hi res skies but it doesn't seem to change the clouds at all. I followed the readme and installed major parts of SWG's skies v3 aswell before placing Vurt's meshes~ in Data files. Thanks in advance!

[Povuholo]

Grott: You could consider this alternative: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=25676

 

It doesn't require any other files so it's pretty easy to

install.

 

Some shots of mine with AOF Skies:

 

http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/57416-1281621922.jpg

http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/57416-1283349273.jpg

http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/57416-1273230944.jpg

http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/57416-1270739435.jpg

http://www.tesnexus.com/imageshare/images/57416-1269363097.jpg

[Donnymaan]

EDIT: Nevermind. I was using the version that was on TES NEXUS. Apparently that version is from bronze age. New version gives me FPS I would expect. Edited November 14, 2010 by Donnymaan

[zero52135]

It seems that my MGE has trouble asserting itself. I set my resolution to a higher one, since my laptop is at 1366x768, but when I start it up, it runs in the default 1024x768. It shows the FPS counter from in the top left, and other features work fine, so I don't know why it won't change my resolution.

[zero52135]

Found out my problem. After delving into the help section in the wiki, I started the Morrowind.Exe file itself as administrator and it works now.

[boneyt]

Im having trouble getting MGE to work, the first time I extracted it i copied it to the /morrowind/data files/ directory instead of just /morrowind so i went through deleted all the items and then reextracted it to /morrowind but it now wont completely extract. Below is a copy of the winrar diagnostic report

 

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open mge3depth.bmp

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open mge3preview.bmp

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open mge3Polish.lng

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open mge3Template.lng

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open mge3MGE Wiki Documentation.URL

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open MGEgui.exe

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open d3d8.dll

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open dinput8.dll

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Cannot open mge3MGEfuncs.dll

! C:UsersKevDownloadsmge3.8.2-rev.0178.7z: Error - operation failed

 

I have also tried unraring the entire thing to the desktop and putting files in relevant places from there but i keep getting an error saying MGE isnt working, any ideas?

 

[Amazingchopin]

@boneyt

 

Well,.....

First you must reinstall Morrowind. Then download the latest patch*. And when you've install the latest patch you must download and install MGE 3.8.0 here on Tesnexus. Then download the latest MGE 3.8.2-rev.0178* (Overwrite all, when ask for overwriting)

 

Please, follow these steps.

I think it must work, If it don't... please say so.

 

 

[Latest Patch]

http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_patches.htm

 

[MGE 3.8.2-rev.0178]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/morrgraphext/files/

 

 

 

Amazingchopin