Originally posted by ogremagedwarf
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and its subsequent expansions can all be pretty demanding, especially the latest expansion, Bloodmoon. It's built on a crumby graphics engine, it's not like the graphics are the best of any game currently out. The graphics engine in Morrowind loads everything in front of you, including the backs of buildings, hills, characters, objects, etc. that you do not see. It sounds funny, but other games using the same engine were mainly top-down games with an isometric view, where you weren't really "behind" the 3D models. Fortunately, there are many tweaks in the config file for the game so there are ways to get it to play. From most of the forums I've been to, it seems ATI users get a lot smoother gameplay than nVidia users, even the newer nVidia cards have some problems. As far as the requirements go, you can have what would be considered a non-gaming computer and still be able to run Morrowind, it just takes some tweaking to get it to run at an acceptable rate.