The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

What works

• Installer
• Playing the game
• Unofficial Morrowind Patch
• Mods
  

I installed the game using the Windows installer from the disks, worked fine. Game works, crashes seldomly, using the Wine and Morrowind settings recommended on the HOWTO from the Morrowind 1.2 page in the AppDB. Audio works best when in winecfg, the ALSA driver is set to "Emulation", 16-bit, and "Driver Emulation" enabled, and in the Morrowind options menu, "Hardware Accellerated" sound is selected.

What does not

• Music
• Morrowind FPS Optimizer
• Character view in inventory
  

As mentioned everywhere, the music doesn't work. The Morrowind FPS Optimizer doesn't work because it can't access the Morrowind memory, although it is usable for editing the Morrowind registry settings to change resolutions. Also, the character view in the inventory doesn't work: it appears as a blank white rectangle.

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Movies
• TES Construction Set

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I used a no-cd crack because I prefer not inserting CDs, works fine.

2014-11-14 Admin note: the following was extracted from a user comment made on November 9th 2013, and may not be relevant to current Wine.

About windows getting minimized, the workaround is pretty simple : the MenuStates of the .ini file is reset everytime you launch the game, which causes it to define minimized windows. What you need to do is chmod it to read-only (chmod 444 does the trick) after having changed the MenuStates parameters to suitable window sizes.

I got it to work with around 50 mods, the thing is the .ini file needs to update the modlist, so you first need to run Morrowind with a writable .ini file (chmod 644 works like a charm), then you can kill the process immediately afterwards (wineserver -k after Ctrl+Alt+F1 for instance), chmod the .ini to 444 after checking the MenuStates section is still well and about, and launch the game !