Mournhold(Morrowind)

Son-of-the-Desert

Not sure where to post this, was looking for a off topic section but it appears we don't have one.
I had several elder scrolls games in my library I wanted to install and I settled for morrowind. After playing a bit I got attacked by this DB assassin and the quest took me to Mournhold. I think that city looks pretty damn beautiful for a 2002 game











Feel free to post here if you have some ES III screenshots you want to share

LMar

The Temple there is also a sight to behold! Do you have any screenies of that?

Son-of-the-Desert

Not atm but I can upload some

Son-of-the-Desert

LMar wrote: »

The Temple there is also a sight to behold! Do you have any screenies of that?

Here as requested

LMar

Cheers! You do have mods though to change a few things I see :P

SASQUATCH0

Is this comparable to eso mournhold at all? I know this takes place hundreds of years after eso but l I played this game like 10 years ago I don't remember what it looks like in tes3 lol.

MarkusLiberty

It looks very different in ESO, but they did a great job with the Palace and the general architecture. Though as with all vanilla ESO cities, they dont really stand up to the content introduced in DLCs, which is a shame, as I'd love to see them do justice to Mournhold

Son-of-the-Desert

LMar wrote: »

Cheers! You do have mods though to change a few things I see :P

I have the morrowind overhaul mod installed with lower settings, I can run ESO on high settings with reshade easy but morrowind + overhaul is really pushing my pc

SASQUATCH0 wrote: »

Is this comparable to eso mournhold at all? I know this takes place hundreds of years after eso but l I played this game like 10 years ago I don't remember what it looks like in tes3 lol.

Like Markus said. There are very few cities in ESO I like, mostly do to them being sparsely populated with items, for example the big open spaces. inside cities. You don't see them in the cities of morrowind. They are more tightly packed. I think ZOS did this for performance reasons.

Andarne

SASQUATCH0 wrote: »

Is this comparable to eso mournhold at all? I know this takes place hundreds of years after eso but l I played this game like 10 years ago I don't remember what it looks like in tes3 lol.

Mournhold in ESO is not the same Mournhold (later renamed Almalexia) in TES3.

During the Tiber Wars, the Imperial forces of Tiber Septim sacked the city. After that, Almalexia herself commissioned an expansion and rebuilt most of Mournhold. In gratitude, the residents renamed the city in her honour.

Old Mournhold, however, was destroyed at the beginning of the First Era by Mehrunes Dagon and his forces.

SASQUATCH0

Andarne wrote: »

SASQUATCH0 wrote: »

Is this comparable to eso mournhold at all? I know this takes place hundreds of years after eso but l I played this game like 10 years ago I don't remember what it looks like in tes3 lol.

Mournhold in ESO is not the same Mournhold (later renamed Almalexia) in TES3.

During the Tiber Wars, the Imperial forces of Tiber Septim sacked the city. After that, Almalexia herself commissioned an expansion and rebuilt most of Mournhold. In gratitude, the residents renamed the city in her honour.

Old Mournhold, however, was destroyed at the beginning of the First Era by Mehrunes Dagon and his forces.

Oh awesome I did not know this. Good info. Love me some elder scrolls lore.

Blackshark

Son-of-the-Desert wrote: »

LMar wrote: »

Cheers! You do have mods though to change a few things I see :P

I have the morrowind overhaul mod installed with lower settings, I can run ESO on high settings with reshade easy but morrowind + overhaul is really pushing my pc

That's because TES 3: Morrowind engine is ancient and can't properly utilize modern hardware. Notably, it is massively dependent upon single-core performance more so than GPU or number of cores. There is another option called Open Morrowind (https://openmw.org/en/) that has built an entirely new engine from scratch to run Morrowind. Unlike other attempts (Morroblivion, Skywind, etc.) this is actually advancing to 1.0 status pretty quickly and utilizes no Bethesda coding property. They did have to obtain permission from Bethesda to use Morrowind assets (i.e. the actual game) in their open-source engine though. This engine is currently compatible, from my understanding, with the entire base game and a significant number of mods. They're currently working on making it 100% compatible with all mods out there. As with any mod, use at your own risk.

Best advice I have after 15 years of playing Morrowind is not to use graphic or texture replacers. They cause more issues than they are worth in my experience.

@Son-of-the-Desert

Son-of-the-Desert

Blackshark wrote: »

Son-of-the-Desert wrote: »

LMar wrote: »

Cheers! You do have mods though to change a few things I see :P

I have the morrowind overhaul mod installed with lower settings, I can run ESO on high settings with reshade easy but morrowind + overhaul is really pushing my pc

That's because TES 3: Morrowind engine is ancient and can't properly utilize modern hardware. Notably, it is massively dependent upon single-core performance more so than GPU or number of cores. There is another option called Open Morrowind (https://openmw.org/en/) that has built an entirely new engine from scratch to run Morrowind. Unlike other attempts (Morroblivion, Skywind, etc.) this is actually advancing to 1.0 status pretty quickly and utilizes no Bethesda coding property. They did have to obtain permission from Bethesda to use Morrowind assets (i.e. the actual game) in their open-source engine though. This engine is currently compatible, from my understanding, with the entire base game and a significant number of mods. They're currently working on making it 100% compatible with all mods out there. As with any mod, use at your own risk.

Best advice I have after 15 years of playing Morrowind is not to use graphic or texture replacers. They cause more issues than they are worth in my experience.

@Son-of-the-Desert

Thanks for the advice, I'll be sure to check out openmw