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This page provides information on how to run Morrowind and the expansions under the Wine compatibility layer in Linux.

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[edit] Wine installation and setup considerations

A lot of what has been said in Oblivion instructions also apply to Morrowind, especially what comes to Wine installation and Wine directory/drive setup. Note that the Morrowind play CD has copy protection that relies on a specific deliberate defect in CD, and making an image with dd command will probably result in a truncated ISO image. Thus, you probably need to keep the original CD in drive.

[edit] Morrowind-specific settings

The following was mostly taken from Wine Application DB:

[edit] Wine settings

Run "winecfg" to set these settings:

  • Windows version set to Windows 98
  • Vertex Shader mode set to Hardware

If you have installed other applications, you may want to add these as application-specific settings.

[edit] Registry settings

See Oblivion instructions on how to add these settings with regedit:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VideoMemorySize"="128"

You should set the VideoMemorySize to the actual amount of video memory on your graphics card as Wine apparently currently has no way of finding this out.

[edit] Morrowind.ini

[edit] Multiple Users

If you plan on running Morrowind as a different user than the one that originally installed it, change the permissions of Morrowind.ini to be writable by other users. In most distributions that can be done by logging in as the owner of the file, cd to the installed directory and running the command:

chmod o+w Morrowind.ini

[edit] Suggested changes

  • Reduce the load on the CPU by capping the FPS. Set it to your monitor's refresh rate or a little lower.
;; Reduce CPU load
MaxFPS=60
  • Increase stability in the game by not preloading the next cell. You will see the 'loading exterior screen' dialog a lot more.
;; Reduce crashes
SkipProgramFlows=1
DontThreadLoad=1
  • Increase performance in the game by using less RAM and by extension swap. You will see the 'loading exterior screen' dialog a lot more.

Never set these values to 0 or you'll lose your companions, creatures, followers at each zone change !

;; Improve Performace
;; The Buffers are measured in game Cells. Settings these too high will cause slow downs
;; after a bit of traveling.  The defaults are 10 and 32, but for better preformance try:
Interior Cell Buffer=1
Exterior Cell Buffer=9

[edit] Known issues

(Note: Some might not be current issues for very newest versions of Wine; should be verified)

  • Completely unresolved: Map displays might not work. Global map works. Local map is rendered black or full of garbage, but shows the house/cave markers correctly.
  • Completely unresolved: Inventory paperdoll doesn't work (appears pure white, or as a black silhouette over red background; sometimes body parts without any equipment or clothing equipped on them are rendered fine). However, this is only cosmetic and equipping and unequipping items works normally.
  • Applies to Wine 0.9.35 and earlier: Music does not work. The game will simply quit with an error message when the main menu intro clip starts. As there's no way to disable the music in game, you can rename the "Data Files/Music" directory to something else. Upon starting, the game will then complain about missing music track; Hit Esc. The game should work normally after that. If you installed Wine and Morrowind when music didn't work and are trying to play game on a newer version, please re-run wineprefixcreate to make sure the required drivers are up to date.
  • Applies to Wine 0.9.48 and earlier: Dynamic shadows may be rendered pure white. Turn the shadows off if this bothers you.
  • Applies to Wine 0.9.53—0.9.54: Install process is broken. Users of these versions can play the game, but have to either copy the install from a Windows install or use an earlier (or newer) version to install the game.

[edit] Official Mods

Windows' path and file names are not case sensitive; linux's path and file names are.

  • For LeFemm Armor: Move all the meshes from 'Data Files/Meshes/A/' to 'Data Files/Meshes/a/'.
  • For Master Index: Move all the meshes from 'Data Files/Meshes/M/' to 'Data Files/Meshes/m/'

[edit] External links

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