whitefiretiger Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 So while cleaning I found my old copy of Elder Scrolls Morrowind and decided to install it but for the life of me I cant get it running on windows 7. I've managed to install & play Diablo & Diablo II with tho good old install to c:/game and little comparability settings but all I'm getting at best when i try to play it is the screen going black and then acting as if I never opened it. Any help would be great Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkakmanH Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 (edited) I have had the game since 2012 and have run on both Win7 and now Win10 Just a guess - it sounds like the game is expecting a different screen resolution and your screen is not responding as the game expects. You might try Ctrl+Esc or Ctrl+Alt+Esc to see if it allows you to change the res. Also, the original screen is 800X600 so if you still have a problem, you might change your screen res and try restarting. Edited November 2, 2017 by AkakmanH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 3, 2017 Posted November 3, 2017 https://openmw.org/en/ Thank me later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefiretiger Posted November 3, 2017 Posted November 3, 2017 https://openmw.org/en/ Thank me later. Going to give this a try when home. Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjloki Posted November 3, 2017 Posted November 3, 2017 i have tried and tried again to get crysis running but no joy,...i just caint make it work on the newer OS's ... my steam version, same thing...sucks https://openmw.org/en/Thank me later. Going to give this a try when home.Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefiretiger Posted November 3, 2017 Posted November 3, 2017 https://openmw.org/en/ Thank me later. I cant get this to work out. It refuses to import settings. Tried many versions i spent hours trying last night. Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 4, 2017 Posted November 4, 2017 I had no trouble loading up first try. Did you follow the directions (all of them)? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownbob Posted November 4, 2017 Posted November 4, 2017 So while cleaning I found my old copy of Elder Scrolls Morrowind and decided to install it but for the life of me I cant get it running on windows 7. I've managed to install & play Diablo & Diablo II with tho good old install to c:/game and little comparability settings but all I'm getting at best when i try to play it is the screen going black and then acting as if I never opened it. Any help would be great Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Ots acting like its not opened? Does it show running in the task manager? You will have to kill it before relaunching. Also, experiment with windowed vs full screen. My money is on full screen. You can set your max resolution here, I think. Good luck. Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefiretiger Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 I had no trouble loading up first try. Did you follow the directions (all of them)?Yes i followed the instructions but looks like the configuration file is not populating for some reason Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefiretiger Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 So while cleaning I found my old copy of Elder Scrolls Morrowind and decided to install it but for the life of me I cant get it running on windows 7. I've managed to install & play Diablo & Diablo II with tho good old install to c:/game and little comparability settings but all I'm getting at best when i try to play it is the screen going black and then acting as if I never opened it. Any help would be great Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Ots acting like its not opened? Does it show running in the task manager? You will have to kill it before relaunching. Also, experiment with windowed vs full screen. My money is on full screen. You can set your max resolution here, I think. Good luck. Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk I did not check task manager. The main screen opens to let me select to play or change settings. No mater how ive tried to set the settings from that or comparability mode the best case when I've clicked play is the screen going black like its launching the game then it just goes back to the desktop. Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 I had the same problems with older games not opening on newer os's and it was a simple fix of installing all the older versions of visual c ,so now when installing games I always install whatever version of visual c it recommends. Sometimes the game dose not want to work with newer versions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefiretiger Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 I had the same problems with older games not opening on newer os's and it was a simple fix of installing all the older versions of visual c ,so now when installing games I always install whatever version of visual c it recommends. Sometimes the game dose not want to work with newer versions.I'm not sure what version I would need for Morrowind. I know it says directX 8.1 but can't seem to find the C++ version for vanilla copy of the game. Sent from my SM-J700P using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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