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>> No. 25060 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 2:35 pm
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I'm thinking of playing a bit of Morrowind but own only a fairly low-end laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 320). There seems to be an endless combinations of mods and launchers available. How would I get the absolute bare bones of the game installed and running as fast as possible on limited hardware?

I don't care if it ends up looking like shite, I just want to design characters and a bit of open world escapism.
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>> No. 25061 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 2:51 pm
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Morrowind came out in 2002 m8. The system requirements are Windows 98, a 500MHz Pentium III and 256MB of RAM.

The quickest and easiest way to get it installed and running is just to buy the GotY edition from Steam or GOG. Install the optimization patch if you want, but you probably won't need it.

The hardcore modders use OpenMW (a from-scratch rewrite of the engine with enhanced modding support) but that's a fairly deep rabbit hole.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/morrowind-optimization-patch

https://openmw.org/en/
>> No. 25062 Anonymous
7th August 2021
Saturday 10:57 pm
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Oh wow, wouldn't an ASCII/tiles remake of Morrowind be lovely? Like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, only better. Think of the colour palette.
>> No. 25063 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 12:19 am
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If I remember right the original exe is fine on modern systems, but you'll want Morrowind Graphics Extender, which adds a lot more options to the graphics. That means you can turn them both further down as well as further up depending what your system can handle.

I reckon you'll be fine though, it's ancient, my old eeePC (remember those?) netbook could run it.
>> No. 25064 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 12:23 am
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>>25063
>my old eeePC (remember those?) netbook

I really loved those and I'm surprised there is nothing like that around now.
>> No. 25065 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 12:27 am
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>>25064

Yeah, it's a crying shame, but it's all about tablets now, which just isn't the same.

If there was a really lightweight version of that Microsoft thing with the flippy keyboard it might fill the same niche for me, but at about ten times the price I bet.
>> No. 25066 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 12:32 am
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>>25065
> a really lightweight version of that Microsoft thing with the flippy keyboard

Honestly, I think they're terrible by comparison. The Surface tablet is so dense and heavy that you can't easily hold it one handed; useful for lots of other things perhaps, but its nowhere near the eeeeePC vibe.
>> No. 25070 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 3:03 am
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>>25064

Chromebooks have filled the "dirt cheap computer for the kids" niche. GPD make some absolutely tiny laptops that'll fit in a coat pocket.
>> No. 25072 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 7:01 am
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>>25064

Agreed. The common logic is "just get a tablet or a keyboard for your phone" but you could run Windows or Linus on a netbook and you really, really can't do that on a tablet. So my choices are either a very old netbook that will struggle to keep up (and the battery will be long since ruined), a 12 inch laptop which is nice but far, far bigger than I want or need, or a GPD pocket like >>25070 suggests, but they strike me almost more as a novelty, despite them appearing quite capable.

Maybe I should be a complete cunt and build one of those Cyberdecks out of one of the more powerful Raspberry Pi pretenders. Probably would raise some eyebrows at airport security, though.
>> No. 25073 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 9:00 am
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>>25072

I did a bit of digging and found out there's a couple of subreddits and websites devoted to converting Chromebooks into Windows-capable machines. You usually have to open them up and jump a pin to make the bios writeable, then flash them. Sounds like a nice little rainy day project to me, because some of the Chromebooks are really quite nicely designed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrultrabook/

There's also these no-name China looking things, which I'm tempted to give a try for £180. Can't really go wrong for my money.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/iOTA-Flo-11-6-Inch-Windows-Processor/dp/B08938FX9G

Obviously it's not going to be a powerhouse of a computer, but that's what the manufacturers (or rather, the customer base they are predominantly selling to) don't understand. I consciously want a low-power device for low-power tasks, the trouble is Katy Steakbake buying it for her kid thinks it ought to do everything the latest MacBook can do.

I might just be a massive spod but I greatly enjoy playing around with modest hardware and seeing what you can get it to do. It's a pleasant surprise when a £180 computer exceeds your expectations in Quake 3, rather than a disappointment when you've spent £1800 on a Razer Ultrabook that overheats after five minutes of Rocket League.
>> No. 25074 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 2:36 pm
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>>25065
>>25072
(ex) ITlad here
I don't know if they still make them but Dell used to sell something like that a couple of years ago. It was basically an x86 tablet with a clip-on keyboard that turned it into a netbook.
My work bought a few to test but the only people who actually liked them were the people hanging on to ancient Samsung netbooks because they needed something they could carry around all day. Everyone else who asked for one (mostly office workers who spent 80% of the day sitting at desks) liked the idea of a tiny laptop but were constantly complaining that they didn't perform as well as a new full sized laptop, which probably explains why they never got that popular. It probably didn't help that they came pre-installed with windows 8.1 and had barely enough RAM to run it. They would've been fine with Linux or older versions of windows though.
>> No. 25075 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 3:05 pm
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>>25064
I recently started playing with an HP Stream 11 which is probably about the closest thing on the market to an eeePC. It has the worst screen of any computer I've ever used but the performance is better than I'd expected. It's not blazing fast or anything, but it's perfectly adequate for writing things up, browsing with a small number of tabs open, that sort of thing. More interestingly I've had no trouble emulating everything up to the PS1, and even PPSSPP has been playable (Albeit with frameskipping on and at the PSP's native 480 × 272 resolution.) Having expected it to choke just running Windows 10 alone, I have to say I'm impressed. (Perhaps it's because they've finally started putting 4GB of RAM in low end machines. It's wild that until recently they had the cheek to sell them with 2.)

Funnily enough I've also been playing Morrowind on it. It heats up a bit even with a lowish draw distance and the nice water effects turned off, but it seems to be perfectly playable.
>> No. 25076 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 5:46 pm
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I'm happy my pointless thread was diverted into a more productive conversation. Just chiming in to say that >>25061 was right and Morrowind runs absolutely fine. Also it's still a brilliant game.
>> No. 25077 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 10:52 pm
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>>25073

Well, I just accidentally won a GPD pocket 2 on eBay. They seemed to be going for about £400-500 on there, so I put a cheeky £280 bid on one with a couple of hours left to go, (with 44 bids!) and turns out that was enough somehow. So either I've bought a fucked one without reading the description properly, or I'm a keen bargain hunter. I'll let you know if it turns out to be anything more than a novelty.
>> No. 25078 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 11:25 pm
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>>25077
Please do share - whatever the outcome - thats about the kind of money I would pay for one, cute though they are.
>> No. 25079 Anonymous
8th August 2021
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>>25078

We use a couple of ancient (or at least they feel ancient) web apps at work that really don't play well with tablets and phones, it might, in fairly specific situations, make my life slightly easier.

I will have to have some awkward conversations with IT but I might even be able to use it as a go-anywhere terminal for our Proper Systems.

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