[SOLVED] Morrowind not working

[Deleted082808]

People from tech support, PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!


A while ago I got Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls III from my sister. I then installed only Morrowind, (there are two disks with expansions, Bloodmoon and Tribunal) and began playing it.

Now, I have installed both expansions, and tried to play it. I get only and error message that states " Failed to load snowflake:Meshes\BM_Snow_01.nif." I have tried everything, but I only get that message. Please respond soon.


A poor, sad, gamer

[Legionnaire]

Hi there, notsurenotsure. having read through your problem, i would say that the problem lies with the BloodMoon Expansion. Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing just that expansion?

Legionnaire

[Deleted082808]

yes, i have tried that, to no avail. The only thing i havent tried is uninstalling then reinstalling morrowind, and the reason is because i dont really want to back up my files.

[Laurie52]

You might have to anyway. Sounds like the file was not completely downloaded.

I only have the "vanilla" Morrowind myself but my daughter plays a character different from mine. Being Morrowind is single player only with no multiple role options. When I play mine, all I have to do is save her files and place them into a backup folder outside of the "Database". Then these with my character's files. Everything shows up properly for my place....or for her, when she plays hers. Not a big deal.

However, I do look forward to getting the expansions. This game has so many wonderful mods and additions to expand the gameplay...but you have to have the expansions to use them!

[Deleted082808]

Yeah, I guess I will have to do that. Darn! Any other options? Anybody?

[Laurie52]

Well, have you tried looking through "The Elder Scrolls" forums for a similar question and answer?

[Deleted082808]

Yes, all I got was junk about Oblivion. DARNED OBLIVION!!!

[Laurie52]

Yeah, I do understand. The new "shiney" in town catches the eyes right now and is all the rage.

I went to the ForumPlanet and their Elder Scrolls: Morrowind forums. In their Morrowind Technical Problems forum is a Sticky at the top that has your solution. Just go through the Table of Contents for any other help with the game later.

But this seems a common problem if you are running VISTA after installing the Bloodmoon expansion. Apparently you do have to make another folder to save in and from.

[2b] Error message - "Failed to load snowflake: Meshes\BM_Snow01.nif"

This is a very common error message to get after installing the Bloodmoon expansion. Unfortunately, there is no one solution to it that works for everybody. But it's still a very solvable problem. ;^)

First, I recommend you try the simplest solution, which also happens to be the one that seems to work for most everybody. I recommend simply moving the whole Morrowind (or Bethesda Softworks) folder to a new location on your hard drive because the default install location (C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind) has so many permission restrictions (and other weird things of different kinds that nobody really understands) that it's just a bad place to run Morrowind from. I recommend you paste your entire Morrowind, or Bethesda Softworks, folder to your root C:\ directory - so its install path is, for example, C:\Morrowind.

After that, you can try right-clicking the Morrowind.exe file in the installed Morrowind folder and choosing the Run as Administrator option, then try playing. If that fails, then return to the Morrowind.exe properties and, in addition to the previous, try running it in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode.

If that still doesn't work, then open your Morrowind.ini file (located right in the installed Morrowind folder (you may have to click the "Compatibility Files" tab in the top-right corner to see this file)) and find the Archives section. It should look like this:

[Archives]
Archive 0=Tribunal.bsa
Archive 1=Bloodmoon.bsa

If either of these lines are missing, then copy and paste them into your Morrowind.ini file and save it. Also, while you're there, right-click your Morrowind.ini file, look at its properties, and make sure that it is NOT read only.

If that still doesn't help, then try opening the Tribunal CD in Explorer, right-click Setup.exe, and choose the Run as Administrator option. Then disconnect from the internet, disable any anti-virus, anti-spyware, or firewall software you're using and double-click the file Setup.exe on the Tribunal CD to reinstall Tribunal. Then repeat this process with the Bloodmoon CD.

If that still doesn't work, then as a last resort you can copy and paste the Data Files folders from the Tribunal and Bloodmoon CDs to the installed Morrowind folder on your hard drive. By default, the game gets its art files from the installed BSA files, but it looks for them in the Data Files first; so putting them in the Data Files should fix your problem, but it will use more hard drive space. After you copy the files over, to get some of your hard drive space back, you might be able to delete the Tribunal.bsa and Bloodmoon.bsa files from your hard drive and also remove both of the Archive entries in your Morrowind.ini file - I've never tried this, though, so don't permanently delete the files until you're sure it isn't causing any problems.

Kinda sounds convoluted. One person did post a similar question, like yours, in the forum index. He moved his game folder to C:// and it worked, but without any saved files! They were there after moving them back.

His solution was finding and using "the save game editor" to find and copy the files.

Since I have not had any problems....yet (knock on wood) using XP. Hope this helps you. At least while looking for a solution for your problem, I bookmarked these forums for myself in case after getting Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions.

[Deleted082808]

Thank you so much. I cannot say how grateful I am. I will reply again to tell you the results. Again, THANKS!!

[Deleted082808]

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