Morrowind on the Asus ROG
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I have a new Asus ROG laptop with an NVidia GTX960M and I am trying to get Morrowind (Elder Scrolls III) installed and working. Installing it is no problem, it fires right up and works.
What I want, though, is for it to work "well". Two things that stand out as immediate issues. One is that it does not recognize the Nvidia GPU and only the Intel HD one and the other is that it will not do any widescreen (16:9 or 16:10) resolutions and only old school 4:3 ones.
Is anyone aware of how to get it onto the good GPU and/or get the game into a widescreen fullscreen mode, that would be great.
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There is an overhaul mod for morrowind that fixes the widescreen issue. I'm not sure about it not recognizing the correct graphics card.
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Go into you System Devices and verify that it recognizes the better GPU. Then go get drivers from here; http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us , And then try again. Some older games also have trouble with mobile chips.
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Check the GOG forums - they specialize in getting old games up and running on modern systems.
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Also, what happens if you right click on the game shortcut and tell it to run with the NVIDIA Graphics card?
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I had an interesting issue where Windows 10 forced a "Mirage Driver" in front of my nVidia card and everything went to pixelated crapola.
A reboot and it got its crap together. Irritating none the less.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
Go into you System Devices and verify that it recognizes the better GPU. Then go get drivers from here; http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us , And then try again. Some older games also have trouble with mobile chips.
+1 for the drivers from nVidia.
Also, clean install the new drivers.
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You need to install the Morrowind Overhaul 3.0, as well as make sure you have Full screen mode and pixes shading off in the settings. I remember seeing someone with a similar issue on the Steam forums and it resolved the issue for them.
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Thanks, I'll take a look for that.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
Go into you System Devices and verify that it recognizes the better GPU. Then go get drivers from here; http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us , And then try again. Some older games also have trouble with mobile chips.
Other games use it, just not Morrowind.
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@dafyre said:
Also, what happens if you right click on the game shortcut and tell it to run with the NVIDIA Graphics card?
Nothing. It acts like it will, but once MW fires up, it goes to the Intel HD device instead.
