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When I first installed Morrowind on my Win2K machine, I was getting
some fairly dramatic crashes, often immediately after a full reboot.
I'd read about the CTD problems, but what I was seeing seemed much
worse, with full-on random reboots not being uncommon.
I did a complete wipe and reloaded my system with WinXP. During the
actual XP install I experienced stop exception errors, which made me
quite edgy. After the install finally completed, I still got the
crashes from Morrowind, and other, less demanding, software was
crashing as well.
Finally I took a good look at my motherboard, and noticed that the
resin was boiling out of four can capacitors. The MB was cooked, no
doubt about it.
Ordered a new MB, CPU, RAM, power supply and hard drive. Reloaded
everything again, problem solved. The build and install went
flawlessly (though it was still horribly time consuming to reload all
my software), and Morrowind runs like a champ.
The new computer specifications:
- ABIT AN7 nForce2 motherboard (new)
- AMD Athlon XP Barton 3000+ 400 FSB (new)
- Mushkin 512MB DDR400 (x2) (new)
- Samsung 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive (new)
- Antec TrueBlue 480 watt power supply (new)
- ThermalTake SilentBoost CPU cooler (new)
- 3DCool ATX mid-tower chassis (existing)
- NVidia GForce FX 5700 Ultra 128 MB AGP video (existing)
- Creative Labs PC-DVD 12x Drive (existing)
- PlexWriter 48/24/48A CD-RW (existing)
- IBM 60 GB IDE hard drive (existing)
- 3.5" 1.44B floppy drive (existing)
- Windows XP Professional
The machine is much quieter than the old setup, and the CPU
temperature rarely rises above 100 degrees F.
I'm able to push the view plane way out in Morrowind and still get
good frame rates - I've set the max at 50 fps, and it usually hovers
right there both indoors and out. I've even turned on shadows.
I also found that the sound works much better now. The only sound
complaint I have is that hits on me are unnaturally loud. Every other
sound seems well balanced and reasonable. Any suggestions as to how to
reduce the noise level of hits on me?
Is there a 'standard' way to measure frame rates to compare against
other machines? I know a lot of twitch games have built-in fps test
sequences that hardcore players use to compare results when
overclocking and such.
--
Exodus 22:18 can kiss my pagan ass
www.lokari.net
When I first installed Morrowind on my Win2K machine, I was getting
some fairly dramatic crashes, often immediately after a full reboot.
I'd read about the CTD problems, but what I was seeing seemed much
worse, with full-on random reboots not being uncommon.
I did a complete wipe and reloaded my system with WinXP. During the
actual XP install I experienced stop exception errors, which made me
quite edgy. After the install finally completed, I still got the
crashes from Morrowind, and other, less demanding, software was
crashing as well.
Finally I took a good look at my motherboard, and noticed that the
resin was boiling out of four can capacitors. The MB was cooked, no
doubt about it.
Ordered a new MB, CPU, RAM, power supply and hard drive. Reloaded
everything again, problem solved. The build and install went
flawlessly (though it was still horribly time consuming to reload all
my software), and Morrowind runs like a champ.
The new computer specifications:
- ABIT AN7 nForce2 motherboard (new)
- AMD Athlon XP Barton 3000+ 400 FSB (new)
- Mushkin 512MB DDR400 (x2) (new)
- Samsung 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive (new)
- Antec TrueBlue 480 watt power supply (new)
- ThermalTake SilentBoost CPU cooler (new)
- 3DCool ATX mid-tower chassis (existing)
- NVidia GForce FX 5700 Ultra 128 MB AGP video (existing)
- Creative Labs PC-DVD 12x Drive (existing)
- PlexWriter 48/24/48A CD-RW (existing)
- IBM 60 GB IDE hard drive (existing)
- 3.5" 1.44B floppy drive (existing)
- Windows XP Professional
The machine is much quieter than the old setup, and the CPU
temperature rarely rises above 100 degrees F.
I'm able to push the view plane way out in Morrowind and still get
good frame rates - I've set the max at 50 fps, and it usually hovers
right there both indoors and out. I've even turned on shadows.
I also found that the sound works much better now. The only sound
complaint I have is that hits on me are unnaturally loud. Every other
sound seems well balanced and reasonable. Any suggestions as to how to
reduce the noise level of hits on me?
Is there a 'standard' way to measure frame rates to compare against
other machines? I know a lot of twitch games have built-in fps test
sequences that hardcore players use to compare results when
overclocking and such.
--
Exodus 22:18 can kiss my pagan ass
www.lokari.net