MGE XE

Morrowind Graphics Extender XE

A graphics improvement add-on to the Morrowind engine, for longer viewing distances, great sunsets, fine shaders and better lighting. Supports MWSE 2. 1, included as part of the installer, so that the newest Lua gameplay mods work straight away. As an engine mod, this is not compatible with OpenMW.

Requirements

Morrowind GOTY or Bloodmoon fully patched.

Any graphics card made since 2009 or so.

Windows Vista SP2 or later (Windows XP is not supported since MGE XE 0. 11. 2).

Morrowind Code Patch, if you want to use MWSE.

Major features

MGE XE provides:

- Resolution and FoV configuration.

- Distant world rendering. As long or short a viewing distance as you want, with spectacular atmospheric colourations.

- New water rendering, with simulated ripples from the player and from raindrops.

- Solar shadows, that smoothly update with the time of day.

- Shaders like SSAO, Sunshafts, and HDR.

- Per-pixel lighting. For better performing graphics cards, it improves

the rendering of lights and and fixes colour shifts caused by the old

- MWSE 2. 1 support. Amazing new mods have full access to customize Morrowind's UI and gameplay mechanics.

The main feature is the distant world. The MGE XE program takes your mod

list, and builds a lower detail version that can be used to render the

distant world in-game. It's built by the "Distant land generator wizard"

on the Distant land tab. You'll need to re-run the generator if you add

or remove any mods that change the world, otherwise the distant world

will appear out of date compared to your mods.

The new water, shadows, and lighting are integrated into distant land. They are all

dependent on the distant world data to know about the world beyond the

area near the player. So, generate distant land and all these features

will be available.

Install Instructions

1. If you are interested in MWSE 2. 1 and Lua mods, you must first install Morrowind Code Patch. The bugfixes it provides are required for MWSE. As a complement to the UI scaling option, you may also want to use Better Dialogue Font for sharper menu text.

2. Run the MGE XE installer. It will add a new configuration program, MGE XE, to your Morrowind directory and to the Morrowind section of your start menu. All Visual C++ and DirectX updates are now included in the installer.

You will be given the choice to update MWSE in the installer, which requires internet access. For a manual installation, extract the archive files to your Morrowind directory and run MWSE-Update.

3. Run the main MGE XE program, which sets all the graphics configuration. If you're using Mo