It is a good practice to obtain and install the latest version drivers for your sound and video card on a regular basis to insure that you have the latest available fixes and enhancements provided by the hardware manufacturer.
Most hardware manufacturers, especially for video and sound cards, update their drivers several times a year to correct problems found with incompatibilities with the myriad hardware and software configurations present.
If Morrowind is still crashing after trying the steps above, then contact the system manufacturer to obtain the latest sound and video card driver software. Click OK to close the Options window, then click Return to return to the game.Click on the arrow pointing down next to Resolution.įrom anywhere in the game, press the Escape ( ESC) key on the keyboard to bring up the Main Menu, then click on Options.Double click on the Morrowind icon to bring up the Morrowind Launcher.If Morrowind is still crashing, try changing the following settings for the game. Click the Exit button in the lower right when done.If it is not, click on the Enable button next to the item to enable this function. Directly next to each of these items should be the word Enabled.Under the DirectX Features section, look at the lines labeled DirectDraw Acceleration and Direct3D Acceleration.Once the DirectX Diagnostic tool appears, click the Display tab.Click Start, then Run, and type 'C:\Program Files\DirectX\DxDiag.exe' (including the quotes), then click OK.Make sure DirectDraw and Direct3D are enabled.
Move the slider for Hardware Acceleration all the way to the right (all accelerator functions).Click the Advanced button in the lower right.Click Start, Settings, then Control Panel.Click OK, then Ok or Close, and restart the system when prompted.Move the slider for Hardware Acceleration all the way to the right (All accelerator functions).Click Start, Settings, and then Control Panel.Make sure the Windows Hardware acceleration is at the Full setting.Do this to all of the icons that have a quit option.Right click on any of the icons and select the Quit/ Exit option. Next, look in the lower right hand corner.In Applications screen, highlight one of the entries, then click on the End Task button to close the program.This will bring up the Windows Security dialog box. To close background applications in Windows 2000/XP, press CTRL+ALT+DEL once. They will be reloaded the next time the computer starts. Note that you are not deleting any programs with this procedure, just disabling them temporarily.
To close background applications in Windows 98/ME, press CTRL+ALT+DEL once. Make sure all background applications are closed. This is a larger file and will take several minutes to updated (upwards of 15 minutes on lower end machines). NOTE: the installer may seem to 'hang' or 'lock' when updating the Morrowind.bsa file.