Crashes on startup

[Zaphod]

A few seconds after I click "play" in the morrowind launcher, the screen goes black, and I get a windows message "Morrowind has stopped working." I can't get it to start at all, and I'm not sure why it's crashing. Other Steam games work fine. My computer has MUCH more power than is needed to run this game. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, and here is what's listed in the warnings file after uninstalling and reinstalling twice then trying to start Morrowind once:

Icon file "Icons\Byb\light_mount_candle.tga" not found.
TES3Stream Warning: Model "Meshes\l\Light_De_Candle_01.NIF" tex not found "Tx_glass_de_01.tga"!
TES3Stream Warning: Model "Meshes\l\Light_De_Candle_01.NIF" tex not found "Tx_glass_de_top_01.tga"!
Texture Load Error!: Tx_glass_de_01.tga
Texture Load Error!: Tx_glass_de_top_01.tga
TES3Stream Warning: Model "Meshes\d\Ex_DE_ship_door.NIF" tex not found "Tx_wood_door.tga"!
Texture Load Error!: Tx_wood_door.tga
CreateFile('Data Files/Lights_300_V2.esp') in CreateTES failed with error:
The system cannot find the path specified.


Any help would be appreciated!

[Logorouge]

If it's freshly reinstalled, it sounds like remains of mods are left in the folder and causing problems. Uninstalling the game, deleting the Morrowind folder and then reinstalling would give you a truly clean install.

[King Nerevar]

I agree. It seems like there are corrupt files. If you never installed mods, you should also delete and reinstall.

[Shudby]

I also have this problem and would be very grateful if someone knew a fix!

I run Windows 8.1 on an Intel & Nvidia Machine.

EDIT: I have just fixed it buy *freshly reinstalling* it as said by logorogue.
I believe it was because I immediately tried to install the MGE mod after i saw the installer worked, without trying to play the game further than the launcher. So do try a CLEAN install completely deleting the folder in: <path to *steamapps*>/common/Morrowind
Delete the folder itself and try reinstalling. Hope it works.

Originally posted by logorouge:

If it's freshly reinstalled, it sounds like remains of mods are left in the folder and causing problems. Uninstalling the game, deleting the Morrowind folder and then reinstalling would give you a truly clean install.

[Zaphod]

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks!

I did indeed install a mod - the main one I'd like to have (and the only one I had tried to install) is the overhaul 3.0 sound and graphics mod. I guess that was the culprit. I followed the instructions rather closely - any idea if there is a different way I can set it up such that it will work properly? The only thing I didn't do was disable UAC, since I've read that is not generally advised, and folks claim that if you simply control-alt-delete when it won't accept mouse input (which I did have to do), you can work around having to turn that off. Any words of wisdom?

[kmk988]

Originally posted by Zaphod:

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks!

I did indeed install a mod - the main one I'd like to have (and the only one I had tried to install) is the overhaul 3.0 sound and graphics mod. I guess that was the culprit. I followed the instructions rather closely - any idea if there is a different way I can set it up such that it will work properly? The only thing I didn't do was disable UAC, since I've read that is not generally advised, and folks claim that if you simply control-alt-delete when it won't accept mouse input (which I did have to do), you can work around having to turn that off. Any words of wisdom?

honestly as long as you don't download questionable stuff turning off UAC will have no real issues

[Zaphod]

Well, back to the drawing board. The game ran fine before trying to reinstall the graphics and sound overhaul. Now it's doing the same thing. I turned UAC off this time too. As near as I can tell, the text from the warnings file is exactly the same as before:

Icon file "Icons\Byb\light_mount_candle.tga" not found.
TES3Stream Warning: Model "Meshes\l\Light_De_Candle_01.NIF" tex not found "Tx_glass_de_01.tga"!
TES3Stream Warning: Model "Meshes\l\Light_De_Candle_01.NIF" tex not found "Tx_glass_de_top_01.tga"!
Texture Load Error!: Tx_glass_de_01.tga
Texture Load Error!: Tx_glass_de_top_01.tga
TES3Stream Warning: Model "Meshes\d\Ex_DE_ship_door.NIF" tex not found "Tx_wood_door.tga"!
Texture Load Error!: Tx_wood_door.tga
CreateFile('Data Files/Lights_300_V2.esp') in CreateTES failed with error:
The system cannot find the path specified.

[Zaphod]

And this from the sound warnings file:

Sound Error: Can not play file. \\SDF-2\BETHESDA\Projects\MOROWIND\Morrowind\Data Files\Sound\Vo\r\m\\\SDF-2\BETHESDA\Projects\MOROWIND\Morrowind\Data Files\Sound\Vo\r\m\Atk_RM012.mp3

[kmk988]

where is your morrowind installed?

[Zaphod]

Thanks for the reply, kmk,

Morrowind and all my steam games are installed in programfilesx86. From what I read, that should be ok as long as you're willing to turn UAC off, which I did. I'd be open to moving morrowind if needs be but would prefer to leave my other games where they are if that's possible.

Also, I just noticed today as I was fooling around with morrowind that it will run in windowed mode but not in fullscreen, in case that tells you anything. That might do as a workaround (assuming the graphics and sound overhaul works in windowed mode), but I would like to get it working in fullscreen if possible.

Thanks again!

[kmk988]

Originally posted by Zaphod:

Thanks for the reply, kmk,

Morrowind and all my steam games are installed in programfilesx86. From what I read, that should be ok as long as you're willing to turn UAC off, which I did. I'd be open to moving morrowind if needs be but would prefer to leave my other games where they are if that's possible.

Also, I just noticed today as I was fooling around with morrowind that it will run in windowed mode but not in fullscreen, in case that tells you anything. That might do as a workaround (assuming the graphics and sound overhaul works in windowed mode), but I would like to get it working in fullscreen if possible.

Thanks again!

you may have to run stuff as admin if its still in program files so its easier to just have morrowind or any game with the issue installed to a different folder that isn't protected so heavily by Microsoft

[Zaphod]

Yeah I've tried that already. Running as admin produces the same result. Also, so far as I can tell, Steam won't let me install in a different folder without also installing to a different drive, which I'd prefer not to do since I like to have them all on my SSD as oppsed to a HDD. When I try to install to a different location, it only gives me options to create a new steam directory on other drives, not my SSD.

[Zaphod]

Continued help would be greatly appreciated.

[King Nerevar]

Originally posted by Zaphod:

Continued help would be greatly appreciated.

Mybe u update the forum.
Add what you have done and when u have done.

[Zaphod]

Did you not read my last post?

To reiterate, running as admin produces the same crash. And so far as I can tell, Steam won't let me create a new install folder on the same SSD where all my other games are (it will only let me create an install folder on a different drive, which I don't want to do), which means (unless I'm mistaken, and if so, please let me know and point out how to do this) that I can't move Morrowind to a different folder on my SSD without moving all my other (several dozen) Steam games to it also, which would also require deleting all my games and starting over from scratch with a new folder.

If there is some way to move just the one game (Morrowind) to a different folder and keep it on the same drive (my SSD), while leaving all my other games where they are, I'd love to know how.