The impact is that people come and go throughout the towns and taverns of Tamriel, making Morrowind‘s world a little less static. So what Morrowind Comes Alive tries to do is help flesh out the world a little more, ensuring that 1200 NPCs in the game have unique appearances, with all of those NPCs set on a rotation to appear and disappear over time. Procedural generation has come a long way, but Morrowind was made in a time where some of those advancements were still in development. Morrowind Code Patch tries to resolve some of the more frustrating bugs that result in hard crashes and corrupted save files, and is compatible with any version of Morrowind. Perhaps the most important quality-of-life fix: a mod that stops crashes. Other benefits in the latest MGE XE version include a per-pixel renderer for improved global lighting, borderless windowed mode, the ability to scale the game’s UI, better antialiasing on grass and static textures, and a host of other small tweaks.

(The makers do also recommend the Better Dialogue Font mod, which makes all the journal, dialogue and menu text much more readable, without changing the size.) There’s also some very handy features for dealing with higher resolutions and larger screens, like UI scaling. It effectively allows the game to render more things at distance, while also improved the game’s shaders and shadow quality. Morrowind Graphics Extender XE, or MGE XE as it’s commonly called, is one of the must-have graphical overhauls for the RPG.

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