Jumping in Morrowind on modern hardware in 4K

Original game engine with MGE XE and i7-13700K CPU with a Samsung 990 Pro SSD and Radeon 6900XT
The game is fully rendered in 4K but the Xbox Game Bar application for Windows only records in 1440p

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

i like how there’s no need to say “jumping with 500 acrobatics” or anything. just “jumping in morrowind” and everyone just knows what that means

[@OreganoParsley]

True

[@pinkfloydguy7781]

It means jumping like Inuyasha lol

[@rcschmidt668]

And not dying at the end of the jump. 😂

[@InvictusLex]

I hate that you're right because i clicked this video with full intentions of seeing the super jumps lol.

[@menotme8085]

​@InvictusLex 5 seconds in and I seem them, we're eating good today brother

[@DistrictWitch]

why has nothing ever exceeded this game. Literally the best game ever made

[@andiarrohnds5163]

Because it's the first "grand scale" video game in all gaming history. No other game has even been remotely this large before. Daggerfall had a larger world but it was mostly procedurally generated. Morrowind is literally the first game on Earth of this scale with the amount of actual design and content placed into it. And guess what? No version for the PlayStation exists!! Haha

[@pinkfloydguy7781]

In the vanilla game, in 2002, getting to Caldera felt like such a long trip. And with the draw-distance fog you would have no idea. But the actual caldera is just right there, Balmora is at the foot of it.

[@pinkfloydguy7781]

@@stevej71393 the best balance for me was always just mgexe with like 5 cells draw distance. This is enough that in Balmora, you can make out the observation dome of the Dwemer ruin where you find the puzzle cube from the silt strider platform. Honestly, I didn’t need much more than this for mods. I like the official and unofficial patches.

[@lucanhenrique7457]

@@pinkfloydguy7781 I was messing around with mgexe and you are very true about that. Also the water fog really helps to get the old '''blurry''' feeling from vanilla but still having a decent distance to look at it...

[@pinkfloydguy7781]

@@lucanhenrique7457 I actually like getting lost lol! I can’t tell you how many times I went in circles for the first Redoran quest where you have to kill mudcrabs for the lady in the little cottage, the directions made no sense to me. It’s like “Wow how immersive, sometimes people give bad directions and you get lost!” Cannot recreate that in Skyrim without mods, and I only have a switch these days. The stupid compass marker you can’t turn off makes the clairvoyance spell totally useless

[@sinclair2469]

the fog makes the world so mysterious

[@DistrictWitch]

@@pinkfloydguy7781 yesss 'mgexe 5 cells' master race.

[@nathanw8622]

0:50 wouldn't be a Morrowind video without a cliffracer

[@Ptrixie]

almost had a panic attack when you fell down into a tight spot on the ghost gate. brought back old memories of not saving and getting stuck

[@Kuchenwurst]

^tcl enter ^

[@Ptrixie]

@@Kuchenwurst i was an original Xbox baby for morrowind. I think getting screwed forced me into pc

[@BDugg121]

Almsivi, divine intervention, mark/recall MW had lots of options for everything

[@vasia_riser]

Missing a swing on that netch was the most morrowind thing ever

[@vasia_riser]

*cliff racer, excuse me

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

​@@vasia_riserFailing to just edit your comment is the most YT thing.

[@vasia_riser]

it wasnt working for some reason, sorry ;D@@mikeymcmikeface5599

[@armacham]

Totally unrealistic. You should be able to see hundreds of cliff racers every time you get up that high.

[@andyloaeza8476]

More like thousands

[@Amonny]

Better water than Starfield, that's for sure.

[@sekroz896]

For a brick, he flew pretty good.

[@imre_kovacs]

Your sleep is very restful on your Extra-Comfy Pillow.

[@goohaver]

theres no sound more beaten into my brain than that cliff racer

[@dimitarangelkovski9877]

Breton+saviours hide+boots of blinding speed.. best combo

[@9juju6]

Then they become just the Boots of Speed.

[@dimitarangelkovski9877]

@@9juju6 😁

[@geraltofrivia2570]

imo playing morrowind without fog takes away from the game's feeling of being huge

[@trucid2]

0:56 Scree!

[@JudasHystera]

I can see my house from up there.

[@MachineR5000]

People talk about how small morrowind is compared to skyrim. Looks like there is plenty of things to keep you busy in Vvardenfell

[@JB-xl2jc]

Oh absolutely. Morrowind does feel small when you fly over it but it's jam packed. Both great games full of stuff to do though.

[@jayceneal5273]

Morrowind is the smallest but it feels the biggest and is more worth it to explore every nook and cranny

[@anjoliebarrios8906]

Skyrim's map is bigger but it feels more barren. Even with copy-paste caves. I have a feeling the devs knew a dense environment is better, but back then people wanted Big maps. So be it.

[@jodzie]

Extra-Comfy Pillow enjoyer

[@dave6653]

Tamriel rebuilt is fun also. It's what I would have loved to have growing up when I wanted even more of Morrowind.

[@rcschmidt668]

Imagine all that time spent looking for the Ruins of Kemel-Ze.

[@randomplaces597]

Wtf the game actually nice to look at now

[@giovanniwijma6067]

Can you do these graphic mods for the Xbox Gamepass version as well? Only seem to get OpenMW working

[@Andres-qx8yx]

Bro is literally fast travelling

[@MagpieMcGraw]

Last time I played I had a fast travel spell: Jump 100 pts for 1 second, Feather 100 pts for 1 second, Fortify Strength 100 pts for 1 second.

[@pharaohsmagician8329]

Yes I did this too!!! Jump 100 Pts alone is great but once you combine it with Feather and Fortify Strength all on one effect you travel so much further. I did alot of testing and Jump 100 pts, Feather 100 pts, and Fortify Strength 260 pts (max you can fit) will give you distance that's 2.5x further than just Jump 100 pts alone. Don't put slowfall on it though, even 1 Pt of Slowfall reduces your distance noticeably it's just hard to sell unless you compare side by side, jump from the same starting point via Mark Recall and you can tell though. Slowfall even 1 Point will reduce the distance you jump, even though many people think it doesn't it absolutely does just compare side by side jumping from the same starting point. Using Fortify Acrobatics to get 121 Jump is the best way to do it. Also if you get the Steed Birthsign you can have 125 Max Speed and that really helps average non magically enhanced characters overcome things. But I'm pretty sure you can just Boost your Speed up like Crazy via Alchemical Potions and then a normal jump 100 spell will give you way more distance than without the boosted speed, the same way you fly much faster when levitating with fortify speed effects equipped. You can no Clip through walls and explore dungeon cells really easy that way too.

[@saladinbob]

You're not using the boots of leaping or whatever they were called? Those boots that catapulted you across the map?

[@lucanhenrique7457]

The weather changing while you are jumping* I am a joke to you ??? Cool gameplay

[@NoMastersNoMistress]

Tamriel Rebuilt is reason enough to tinker with TES3, however I prefer OpenMW to the unadulterated jank that is the OG engine and TR works better with it, too.

[@andiarrohnds5163]

opinion discarded bro 🤣🤣

[@dylanbasstica8316]

wow I swear these elitists and their hate for a simple source port will make them disregard facts completely, Andiar, openmw, OBJECTIVLEY, runs morrowind better than script extender, not an opinion, playing with MWSE and not OpenMW isn't some kind of personality trait. I play both for certain reasons, ive never booted up MWSE and been like "I feel so superior to others because my game can run at a stable frame rate at 4k because of my modern hardware" get off your high horse.

[@andiarrohnds5163]

@@dylanbasstica8316 elitist? And you sound like a perfectionist. Everything must be perfect bro. This 20-year-old game must absolutely run every pixel in correct order because like absolutely nothing could be wrong with it ever. So help me God not one little incorrect pixel... Sure, like the 20-year-old original game engine on PC is not like way more impressive to run, and way cooler this way --- imperfections and all. Who cares bro?

[@Linuck]

​@andiarrohnds5163 dude you're offended by someone having a different opinion. You're weird

[@jebreggie4225]

Playing vanilla morrowind in open morrowind felt jankier than using the original engine despite its limitations. Open morrowind is fine as a platform but everyone should play the original game first imo

[@danielfortesque6000]

I don't remember fast travel working that way.

[@bigiron1990]

this man is basically a fighter jet.

[@tylerthompson3075]

Average Morrowind character.

[@PeriQue1337]

Really huge landscape so nice

[@tenshiabse]

This game really could use a remake, however, if Bethesda does it, it will probably suck.

[@KreatywnyKajetan]

check out Skywind ;)

[@therexbellator]

STFU and sit down kiddo, you're never going to get your dick wet if you don't get off 4chan/reddit and let them do your thinking for you.

[@Cruor34]

In the remake it will be all LGBTQs and black people if modern Bethesda has their way. Dark elves don't cut it.

[@therexbellator]

@@Cruor34 Shut the hell up bro lmao you seem to forget how Morrowind had plenty of that in 2002.

[@Cruor34]

@@therexbellator 2022 wtf are you talking about? The game came out in 2002, and no it was not anywhere NEAR as woke as Starfield is. They literally named new Earth after the first black female in space, ROFL. She didn't DO anything, they named it for her race and gender, that is the definition of woke.

[@HamanKarn567]

Tamriel Rebuilt the best

[@skeletonking4119]

why walk when you can Jump??

[@mahmud7645]

I understood that reference

[@lucanhenrique7457]

Why jump when you can ride ?

[@veteran0121]

OpenMW is better visually with the newly added post-processing capability in the beta 0.49 release. It also never crashes. You can also disable/enable mods between saves without worry as well as doing that doesn't corrupt your saves like in Gamebryo. Lua scripting mods aside there's literally no reason in the 2020s to use MGE XE with the vanilla engine. Too much of a headache and too many crashes.

[@andiarrohnds5163]

i prefer the original game engine because personally i think its much more impressive to run something which has been with us over 20 years now. plus, openMW has no lua support. i feel more than a few lua mods are definitely mandatory and bring much more than what openMW has to offer. I'm actually certain of this. i would really suggest you look for the mod author known as "merlord" and also keep in mind this is only one example of what you can find

[@sage94]

OpenMW is fantastic but MWSE is indespensible for any serious modded playthrough. Yes OpenMW is more stable and can look a bit better, but it's just not worth sacrificing lua-dependent mods, which all of the great ones are. Even mods which don't depend on MWSE have issues with OpenMW if the author doesn't take it into account. OpenMW needs to focus on its mod support if it hopes to succeed MGE XE as the new norm, and its a long way off

[@PeterOwenReal]

@@andiarrohnds5163 you are smoking crack. Lua mods are not mandatory and the game crashing is objectively shitty. Also, how is a community driven open source engine not more impressive than the original engine with duct tape?

[@crystalwater505]

@@andiarrohnds5163 What does lua mean?

[@andiarrohnds5163]

@@crystalwater505 its something modders use to add certain types of functionality to mods

[@MagnetTheSteven]

Can I have that lighting mod?

[@JalenRose02]

i wish skyrim had shet like this from morrowind

[@P.Manoel]

The dwemer boots look horrible, they completely ruin the rest of the set. Just wanted to get this off my chest.

[@andiarrohnds5163]

yes

[@daniel.holbrook]

tes 3 dwemer aesthetic is still 10x better than skyrim/eso's dwemer aesthetic, shit is way too clean and decorative

[@adrianmartinez-lq5he]

​@@daniel.holbrook Yes but the boots looks awful

[@AndreiCatalin42069]

Fr, wish there was a mod for normal sized ones, and possibly for the helm too, i don't like the helm either.

[@PureAlex96]

CS2 Dangerzone sure looks different then I expected...

[@TheGosgosh]

Jump good

[@lafreakki420]

TOMMY WRIGHT I CREEP AT NIGHT POSSE DEEP IS HOW I CREEP

[@curzon9619]

How do you manage to get it so smooth with MGE? If I render that many cells, it starts to get huge FPS hits despite having beefy specs for this game.

[@pelimies1818]

I believe I can fly... I believe I can touch the sky..

[@MrShock8]

i not only appreciate how good it looks, but how well it runs

[@andiarrohnds5163]

why thank you. this seems to be the best which the original game engine can do at such level of MGE distant rendering alongside project atlas

[@stroggosaw299]

where is music?

[@andiarrohnds5163]

you can mute the music in game settings... great music but its pretty crazy to expose yourself to the same song for hours on end

[@minete_]

What mods are you using? Your morrowind looks incredible!

[@andiarrohnds5163]

Thanks. Just a few graphics mods. Mainly MGE, MET textures, and basic grass

[@minete_]

@@andiarrohnds5163 Would you be able to tell me what kind of graphics mods? And i'd also like to know what mods are used for the sound improvements. Thanks!

[@andiarrohnds5163]

@@minete_ MGE XE is the main graphics mod, and MET stands for "morrowind enhanced textures" all of these can be found at the morrowind mod nexus. the grass is also called "remieros ground cover".... and i dont remember which sound mods im using. i believe im using several of them which are customized

[@minete_]

@@andiarrohnds5163 oh alr, thanks for telling me though!

[@andiarrohnds5163]

@@minete_ sure

[@leon38688]

nice

[@Z0011-]

I remember those boots hahahahah

[@atioxlefr]

Is Morrowind good on Xbox sx ?

[@daniel1756z]

yeah

[@yerwotm8]

No, PC or don't bother.

[@daniel1756z]

@@yerwotm8 imagine gatekeeping

[@yerwotm8]

@@daniel1756z FFS get a clue. Nothing to do with gatekeeping. Good luck fixing broken quests without the use of console commands. Do yourself a favour and play morrowind on PC. Mods like the code patch are borderline mandatory for bug fixes.

[@daniel1756z]

@@yerwotm8 let other people play games on their perfered consoles.

[@NZComfort]

Folks may hate on this game…. But it’s still my favorite!

[@FreagaZ]

How do you not take damage when falling? Feather spell?

[@Xeirseus]

slowfall

[@gabrielfilgueira3431]

you recieve much less fall damage the more points you have in acrobatics, my character got to 100 by the end of the game because i kept jumping around everywhere to go faster, and i could do shit like jump off from the top floor of the foreign quarter of vivec straight to the ground level and not even recieve 1/4 of my health worth of fall damage.

[@gabrielfilgueira3431]

actually, i think that the fall i just mentioned wouldn't even take 1/8 of my health worth of fall damage, at that point i was most likely immune to any fall in the game that didn't involve me using levitation to fly straight up in the air.

[@or.zalman5419]

mod list?

[@TribunalSlayer]

1:34 xDDD

[@WikiTrash]

Are you using any mods?

[@WyattClark-hq7no]

He's porobably using the Open MW launcher so he can load more landscape but I think that's it.

[@elder8940]

now jump in the original xbox

[@teratokomi8731]

How are you landing without taking damage

[@DoctorPoopenFarten]

I'm guessing he has 1 point of Slowfall on him. Slowfall negates all fall damage

[@rippinrod6633]

121 Acrobatics. There is a breakpoint in the math of the game where once you reach that, you no longer take fall damage of any kind.

[@pharaohsmagician8329]

Slowfall even 1 Point will reduce the distance you jump, even though many people think it doesn't it absolutely does just compare side by side jumping from the same starting point. Using Fortify Acrobatics to get 121 Jump is the best way to do it. Also if you get the Steed Birthsign you can have 125 Max Speed and that really helps average non magically enhanced characters overcome things. But I'm pretty sure you can just Boost your Speed up like Crazy via Alchemical Potions and then a normal jump 100 spell will give you way more distance than without the boosted speed, the same way you fly much faster when levitating with fortify speed effects equipped. You can no Clip through walls and explore dungeon cells really easy that way too.

[@alexandercarlson919]

is the characters name Saitama?

[@hannibalburgers477]

He seems to be a sword build

[@hannibalburgers477]

1:40 Arelw

[@1who4me]

Starfield uses the same game engine btw.

[@bren1marqs]

Yeah yeah

[@TheAwesomeKielbasa]

That's like saying Chivalry 2 uses the same engine as the first Unreal Tournament game. It's kind of technically true, but functionally not.

[@shadesoftime]

It doesn't. The morrowind engine is based on a third-party engine, and creation engine was uused since oblivion. This is probably OpenMW though, and that's a totally different engine that was just made to run morrowind. Edit: oops, i read the description and it is the original engine, my point still stands though

[@TheAwesomeKielbasa]

@@shadesoftime The Creation Engine is built off of Gamebryo, which is what Morrowind used.

[@brandfire1027]

why plp keep repeating this? Like yes bro windows 11 is the same as windows 95 then? is unreal tournament the same as unreal tournamnet 4? is half life 2 the same as quake? it literally does not matter, their engine works fine and its actually very advanced plp only know its faults because bethesda allowed you to mod it beyond its capabilities (and its actually impressive that it can handle so much shit, try to mod any other game as bethesda games and see how fast it crashes), most of the bugs in bethesda games have nothing to do with the engine but bad scripting/design, CE2 is NOT gamebryo.

[@Edward22050]

А как тебе такое, Илон Маск? А?!

[@daniel1756z]

Morrowind kinda looks like runescape

[@evelynmeenan2608]

I mean, Morrowind is running off a modified version of an engine meant for MMOs

[@RahzZalinto]

And runescape was running on internet explorer xD

[@KaktusVozleMonitora]

PUBG

[@iim4xii129]

Gay

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

You are so clumsy at this game.

[@1who4me]

Game still looks like crap

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

4k does not mean better graphics or textures And of course a 20 year old game looks terrible by modern standards, that's like wanting a horse-drawn carriage to go as fast as a Ferrari.

[@elha7982]

He's a troll, don't engage @@BaldianOfIbelin

[@vyacheslavsensor1607]

Looks amazing

[@tylerthompson3075]

Its not Skyrim. No mods required.

[@vyacheslavsensor1607]

@@tylerthompson3075 Do you remember what the Morrowind looked like before mods(MGE)?

[@vyacheslavsensor1607]

can you post a mod list?

[@StupidDumbIdiotImbecil]

You jump good