The Best Morrowind has EVER Looked! - Graphics Mod Overhaul Guide for 2023 & 2024

Playthrough with these mods

In #202X is a series where I check out an old game that has been brought back to life in a recent year. Remastered, modded, or overhauled. This is the past revived and made playable for today's gamers.

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MORROWIND MODLIST!
Although 300+ mods is awesome in #Morrowind it's impractical to do. Not to mention at some point you'll need a supercomputer. The point of this modlist is to get it as "next gen" as possible while still being something YOU can do. Of course if you want more mods feel free to install more.

REMEMBER TO CHECK EACH MOD'S "REQUIREMENTS" AND GET THOSE!

OVERHAULS
1. #OpenMW (you can get stable release now)

2. Morrowind Rebirth (match version to latest grass mod version, this is 6.2)
3. Rebirth 6.21 Grass (follow OpenMW's grass install instructions)

RETEXTURES (Many overwrite but I like this order)
4. Morrowind Enhanced Textures (MET)
5. Connary's Bitter Coast

6. Connary's Grazelands

7. Connary's West Gash

8. Connary's Caves

9. Apel's Bitter Coast Retexture
10. Apel's Fire Retexture
11. Cozy Journal and Scroll Replacer (it's fixed now)
12. Real Signposts

NEW MESHES
13. Better Clothes Complete
14. Hirez Better Clothes
15. Best of Both Worlds 2022 Westly Westley Head and Hair pack
16. Better Bodies 3.2 (Better Beasts)
17. Lore-Friendly Better Bodies Underwear
18. More Argonian Hair
19. Waterfall Tweaks
20. Transparent Glass Weapons
21. Preserving Fargoth

WILDLIFE TO LIVEN UP THE WORLD
22. Bitter Coast Sounds
23. Tamriel Data (remember to do the OpenMW ini settings)
24. Fireflies by RandomPal
25. Where are all birds going (skip if don't like birds)

GAMEPLAY ENHANCEMENTS
26. Better Balanced Combat (removes dice rolls)
27. Projectile Overhaul - Faster Projectiles
28. Delayed DB Attack
29. Graphic Herbalism - MWSE and OpenMW Edition

LIGHTING AND SHADERS
30. Enlightened Flames OpenMW Patcher (Add 'overwrite' folder to OpenMW's 'Data Directories' tab)
31. Improved Lights for All Shaders
32. Zesterer's Volumetric Cloud & Mist Mod

33. TLAD Daylight - BCOM
34. TLAD Lights Only Necro Edit Logical Flicker ExpSnd
(Don't use base True Lights And Darkness! With volumetric clouds some interiors go black. Don't ask why these files, it just worked for me)
(I followed this guide for number changes)

35. RESHADE (OpenGL, Do anything you like with this)
- FakeHDR
- AMD FIdelityFX
- DPX
- LumaSharpen
- Vibrance +0.2

36. Timescale6
OR once in game, open the console with ~ and type:
set timescale to 6
...to slow time. 15 is also good.

37. [Camera] Viewing distance = 35000
This keeps the world feeling big while hiding cutoffs but go up to 50000 if your frames can handle it.

[Groundcover]
rendering distance = 8000

[Shadows]
maximum shadow map distance = 7000

[Camera]
viewing distance = 18000
(Lowering your FOV helps too but don't give yourself a headache)

39. Bonus Mods:
New Starfields
TrueType fonts for OpenMW

NOTE: I lose 30fps to record the video, so I pull down settings to show you this.

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[GamerZakh]

Although 300+ mods is always going to be an awesome experience in Morrowind it's just impractical to do for 95% of players. Not to mention at some point you're going to need a supercomputer. The point of this modlist is to get it as "next gen" as possible while still being something YOU can do. Of course if you want more mods on top of this, feel free to install more.

[linuxgameplayxp]

Never thought I'd end up wanting to do a PC upgrade just to play a 20 year old game.

[axocopan]

I've not played Morrowind for almost 20 years, and this video looks just as I remember it. Amazing how memory is much higher res than reality. :)

[Vurt]

happy to see my trees coming to use, what i love most with morrowind is probably just hearing all the familiar ambient sounds and music, that will never need modding.

[nessunonessun]

The sound of this game make me feel so relaxed, the old times, it is like to go back home...for me the best elder scroll game.

[Jezus]

IDK man, this looks EXACTLY like I remembered it looking 20 years ago🤔

[JoshuaBarretto]

Glad you had fun with my cloud mod :) FWIW, it's a good idea to use post-processing shaders from within OpenMW itself rather than applying reshade on top in order for effects to be applied in the right order. As an example, SSAO should be applied *before* volumetrics rather than after. There are several SSAO mods for OpenMW that are just as good as those in reshade, if not better (since they have access to a lot of in-game data that reshade simply doesn't).

[nemediv]

I don't know if it would be compatible with your mod list, but I strongly recommend giving a mod called Beautiful Cities of Morrowind a try. It really makes the towns on Vvardenfell come alive with lots of extra detail, which merges with the original content so well I can't tell which is which any more.
The modders of Morrowind are on another level. Hats off!

[naughtywizard]

I love vanilla+ mod lists too. OpenMW is making hype progress in it’s development recently. Great work on yours!

[Chtigga]

Glad you still upload Morrowind content! This game is just so alien and captivating.

Looking forward to Skywind.

[JosephAlanMeador]

This is nuts. You're right, I want this. Just when I thought I was done messing with my modlist 😆

[rakuengrowlithe]

LOL! Glancing through the video and I see you mention the 30 fps. When I originally played Morrowind it was on a really weak laptop and I played with ~20 fps and that dropped during combat! I still played the whole game and enjoyed it.

I should also note this all looks amazing!

[draevian]

Me thinking: "Man, this hardly looks any different than I remember let me just check it out unmodded again"

...man, nostalgia can really alter reality huh lmao.

[edorenel]

Oh, wow! I'm totally going to try this for my own gameplay. I love trying out mod lists. 🙂 Morrowind is an old game, but it still looks lovely! And of course, there's the incredible story, the world, the characters... I never tire of it no matter how much time passes. 😊

[crashoverride]

This game will always be incredible, lately I've been playing it with the mod that allows you to play in online multiplayer mode with several players, it's really fun

[bobgrimes]

Great to see you back on Morrowind! Been enjoying your new Augustus playthroughs also.

[zDialecticChaos]

this looks amazing! after playing oblivion and skyrim and loving both, being a huge fan of elder scrolls, and naming my cat khajiit, i am so excited to play morrowind with your mod list, thank you gamer zakh!
also, you were able to introduce the bevilex mod list to me for oblivion and i am so glad i came across your video, as someone who put so many hours into xbox 360 oblivion, i had to get that mod list and i am enjoying it so much!
have a greay day gamer zakh and thank you :)

[pwnedd]

Unbelievable. I was literally planning on modding Morrowind and then going through the game for the first time (I've only ever fiddled about in the very opening area before)... and I had just looked at some of your prior videos and another one. And then bam, this one drops. What timing. Anyway, thank you GamerZakh! I only discovered your channel in the past year, and I am very grateful that the algorithm sent me your way!

[lord_kinbote]

I'm slowly starting to understand how modding OpenMW works. What I don't like is how many of the OpenMW modlists include the Dagoth Ur voice mod. It completely misses the point that Dagoth Ur isn't supposed to be a black-and-white villain.

[AndreiChera]

thank you for keeping us updated with a recommended modding guide! awesome work. i plan to do this later this year.