tc85123 Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 I am planning on buying a laptop and will be playing Morrowind with Overhaul, TR, and other necessary mods like Morrowind alive, and better bodies. How much space on my Hard drive should I expect this all to take up? The laptop I'm looking at is 256 GB. I only plan on playing Morrowind and maybe 1 or 2 games on this machine and thats all it will be used for. Should I be good? Or will I need more GB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchos Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 My Morrowind folder is 8.4GB. I don't have the overhaul installed, but I installed many of its components individually over the years. I have Tamriel Rebuilt installed, as well as Better Bodies, various head mods, Morrowind Comes Alive, Greater Dwemer Ruins, Connary's texture upgrades, and a ton of other mods. You should be fine with the setup you describe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psijonica Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 (edited) Who cares? These days the space on your laptop is meaningless. You can buy an ex5ternal drive and store stuff there. I have a 260gb ssd drive and I have a 5tb external drive. Mod Organizer for example will allow you to store your mods on your external drive and use them from there. My Morrowind folder is super modded and is 22 GBMy Fallout New Vegas is 28 GBMy Skyrim is 32 GB So you then have to realize that even though it says you are getting 256 GB that number is going to be significantly lower by up to 25-33%. Also the new Windows will also eat up a lot of space. Edit: Keep in mind that you will need a 3D vide4o card to play Morrowind. Just because it is an old game it doesn't mean that the new laptops can play it. Edited October 5, 2016 by Psijonica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tc85123 Posted October 5, 2016 Author Share Posted October 5, 2016 Thanks! Seems it wont be too big... Can you explain how external drives work? I have done research and looked into it and everything I see tells me that an External hard drive is extremely slow. Is this true? How do you make it as fast as a built in SSD hard drive or is that not possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psijonica Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 As fast as an ssd is impossible and not all games will work from an external drive. You can buy different kinds of external drives with different speeds but the important part is that you can store your info on them . For example if I want to play another game that is not on my ssd then I just swap files and make room.My external drive is fast enough and plugs in through usb but again, there are different speeds of usb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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