Where are the graphics settings?

[Jimothy]

I was able to increase the screen resolution and get things to full screen but the textures and water are super low resolution/detail. How do I increase the texture and water settings? Can't find them in the launcher or in game.

[slayor3000]

I take it you have just come to Morrowind?
If you want to have better graphics you need to look at a few "mods".
Mge Xe improves all the graphics, distant land, turn on water ripples, reflections and shaders etc. Install alongside MWSE + Lua. A lot of the more recent mods require them.

Otherwise look at OpenMW which is a game engine that improves graphics and is trying to get rid of bugs found in game.

The other thing is texture/ mesh packs which improve a lot of things.
From Better Bodies V2, Better Heads V2, Clothing Packs for Better Bodies which replace all the Vanilla textures.
Then look at things like Vurts groundcover for grass and different tree packs.
Someone else might give you a good list.

Important, before anything else install Morrowind Code Patch-19510-2-4, this fixes countless bugs and problems.
Also install something like Wyre Mash for installing mods, fixing errors, putting load order correct. Link and write up here: https://danaeplays.thenet.sk/wrye-mash/

Hope I have not overloaded you.

[Jimothy]

I don't need the mods to start, I need to know where the settings are. I played the game on XBOX when it came out I know the graphics look better than what I'm getting now, the textures and water are at absolute minimum.

The water is supposed to have reflective qualities but all I see is super low resolution blue and white textures. The settings are at minimum, there has to more settings than just resolution and fullscreen.

[Cortes]

Yes you need mods.

[Jimothy]

Originally posted by Cortes:

Yes you need mods.

How low is your IQ? Are you guys unable to read...
making me want to refund this ♥♥♥♥ and move on with this stupidity.

[slayor3000]

How low is yours?????
There are no settings, this game is old.
Why do you think we said you need mods?
Put your brain in gear. Knock on wood. Whats your age? Think 19 years ago.
19 year old game? Things you are looking for were not around.
Do you know what 19 year old technology was like? About the most expensive, best graphics card was a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Best processor was an Intel Pentium 4. etc, etc.

[Conkwer]

Originally posted by Wolfman:

How do I increase the texture and water settings? Can't find them in the launcher or in game.

Options -> Pixel Shading ON, I believe.

If Pixel Shading is OFF, then water is like a milk.
All other graphic settings are in Morrowind.ini and registry.

MGE XE is not about mods, it's a Direct8 to Direct9 API wrapper in the first place.
DirectX8 games are not very stable on modern systems, you know. At least if you are using Alt+Tab and not on the Intel integrated.

Originally posted by Wolfman:

Are you guys unable to read...

This game is old and never updated since then. You need MGE XE and MCP to make it stable.
If you ignore then you can encounter a lot of bugs like your saves will be corrupted, etc. It depends.
Use OpenMW, seriously. Don't be a sadomazo

[K§H]

Originally posted by Wolfman:

The water is supposed to have reflective qualities but all I see is super low resolution blue and white textures. The settings are at minimum, there has to more settings than just resolution and fullscreen.

Obviously I can't know if something is not working properly in your current installation of the game, but the only graphics settings you can set in-game are resolution, view distance, gamma correction and real-time shadows (these are under the video settings in the in-game options). Other than that, as has been mentioned above, you can turn on and off pixel shading (make sure it is set to on) in the options before you launch the game, together with resolution, fullscreen and GPU selection.

You need mods to make any kind of real change to the graphics, though

[slayor3000]

"MGE XE is not about mods, it's a Direct8 to Direct9 API wrapper in the first place."

Exactly, and my fault for just putting "" around "mods" expecting people to know what I mean, but I really did not want to get into a TL/DR.
i could have gone on about new engine, better coding, better scripting, better use of new technology etc, but then you are not talking TL/DR but ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

[KieSeyHow]

There are several additional graphics settings if you use the registry to modify them. Search online for "advanced Morrowind registry settings".

[Ploulaf]

Originally posted by slayor3000:

How low is yours?????
There are no settings, this game is old.
Why do you think we said you need mods?
Put your brain in gear. Knock on wood. Whats your age? Think 19 years ago.
19 year old game? Things you are looking for were not around.
Do you know what 19 year old technology was like? About the most expensive, best graphics card was a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Best processor was an Intel Pentium 4. etc, etc.

I remember quite well having more settings back then than I have now, both from the launcher and in game.
Water quality, antialiasing and so on. I can't find these in my Steam version.
That's what he's reffering to. Of course mods are awesome and OpenMW basically solves any of this but still, ♥♥♥♥'s weird.

[theo]

I don't remember any more settings in the menus. As far as I remember water rendering was set automatically and could only be changed via ini file.
And yes MGEXE is a mod.

[Lulu Rainsong]

You need mods in order to do basically ANYTHING to change the quality of your graphics. The Standalone CD release (which we legally own, Anthology version (which came with a key for basically GOTY everything -SSE), & have no intentions of getting an external DVD drive to rip 'em) is no different than Steam.

[andylaugel]

Okay,

Originally posted by Conkwer:

Originally posted by Wolfman:

How do I increase the texture and water settings? Can't find them in the launcher or in game.

Options -> Pixel Shading ON, I believe.

If Pixel Shading is OFF, then water is like a milk.

Please note that the Pixel Shading option is in the Morrowind Launcher, and not in the game itself. And thanks for pointing this out! I remembered water looking reflective when I ran it when the game was newer. This option still works now.

[lksdfhj]

There is graphic settings in the option menu without installing any mods.