I’ll make it very obvious when you should stop modding to maintain a purist experience and I’ve included clear notations for whenever something might stray from the game’s original vision, so you can stop modding once you’ve done the minimum, or simply skip anything I point out as optional.

My intention is to provide a purist-friendly modded Morrowind setup, and then only later will I add anything that might digress from the intention of the original game. This guide will lead you through the process of getting Morrowind working on a modern computer, including widescreen resolutions, bug fixes, blurriness mitigation, and more. I have decided to bring you along for this journey. This is an epic path which I have trod before, and I decided this time I’ll be intelligent about it and actually write down what I’m doing so as to ease the process for myself when, inevitably, I have to reinstall on the next computer. Hard drive failure and the recent death of my Xbox’s disc reading capabilities got together and convinced me to do it. So here I am, reinstalling Morrowind for the hundredth time. This note will change (and eventually, finally disappear) when the entire existing guide is 2021-ready, and then new entries will be added to the end. The guide is updated for 2021 up to Part 6. This entry is 2021-ready and was last updated July 24. I’m also going to modernize the design of the site, but that takes lower priority than finishing the guide. Once all the updates are complete, I’ll be adding a new entry to announce them, and following up with new entries to further flesh out the guide with both purist-friendly and non-purist Morrowind enhancements. If you check my main Morrowind page you’ll be able to see the most recent updates and current progress. New screenshots are also required in many places.

Some of my previous mod recommendations are also being replaced or removed entirely (I do plan to include archived versions for anyone who might have preferred my older, albeit incomplete, setup).

I’m shuffling some things around, which might mean a couple of new entries may be added between the old ones.

Once all existing steps are updated, this note will be removed. Note from July 24, 2021: This guide is currently undergoing a significant overhaul.

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