Help blackscreen

[darkworlds king]

I love this game but when I quit it has a black screen were i need to log out and then control alt and delete in order to unfreeze my pc.
does anyone have any tips for this please, i am on windows 10 pro and this is kinda annoying .

Many thanks in advance.

[lonetrav]

Verify Morrowind installation in Steam. Don't alt-tab. Don't click Quit twice.
Could also be caused by a mod or by incompatible mods.

[darkworlds king]

thank you

[BimboGooch]

disable steam overlay for the game. Should get rid of many issues with launching and quitting the game. MGE, or OpenMW prolly would help too.

[ProfArmitage]

This is a problem the game has had since it was originally released.
If you're using the vanilla engine with Morrowind Graphics Extender and Morrowind Script Extender, the mod Expeditious Exit was specifically created to fix that problem.
"This mod is for people who seem to have issues crashing or losing mouse control on exit. By hijacking the exit buttons, this mod will force the game to exit."
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45634

[lonetrav]

So you suggest fixing this problem (which can have many very different causes) by installing the Graphics Extender, the Script Extender and another mod. Quite a big gun for this problem - and one which isn't even guaranteed to work (as long as you're not certain what the problem's cause is).
It's true that Morrowind has had crash problems since it was originally released. Meanwhile a number of causes have been fixed, others are well-known and can be avoided (see my post above for examples). As far as I'm concerned, I haven't encountered any such crash in at least 10 years, except when I accidentally did something which I know I shouldn't do (like alt-tabbing). And I don't use MGE and MWSE (except MWSE occasionally and rarely when I play a mod requiring it).

It would be interesting to learn if the OP has managed to fix the problem meanwhile. If not, it's his decision to follow your advice (especially when he's using MGE and MWSE already) or not. But I'd try a more "conservative" method first - not least because MGE and MWSE (I don't know the Expeditious Exit mod) may cause other problems, especially for inexperienced users.
To illustrate my point, I quote from the description of Expeditious Exit:
"This mod requires Morrowind Graphic Extender (MGE-XE) version 0.10.0 or later. Older versions will not work with MWSE 2.0+! Additionally, it will require the latest nightly build of MWSE 2.1." (I know that the MGE installer contains MWSE 2.1, but not necessarily the "latest nightly build").
Moreover, MWSE requires MCP (which I recommend to install independantly of this discussion - may even fix this thread's crash?) and MCP Skunk Works.

[darkworlds king]

well at the current moment I have installed the suggested mods, I think I tested the game and no black screen when I exit, we will see how this goes.

I think this will prevent the soul trap exploit from working

[lonetrav]

Good to hear - have fun!