Anything around DirectX 10 and older has issues with Windows, these days. One mo...

shakna · 2026-01-01T01:55:26 1767232526

Sidenote:

Whilst Morrowind is fine under Wine, there's a fantastic engine rebuild called OpenMW [0]. It runs on both Windows and Linux natively.

Some of the memory limits are also lifted, which meant I have a few mods that weren't possible without hacks in the past [1].

[0] https://openmw.org/

[1] https://morromod.netlify.app/

account42 · 2026-01-12T14:10:29 1768227029

Unfortunately the modding community is split because OpenMW only cares about supporting the original game and not the script extender ecosystem that modders have built around it.

tubs · 2025-12-30T15:28:54 1767108534

Isn’t this because the wine db has those tweaks pre configured?

Xirdus · 2025-12-30T15:44:59 1767109499

Windows used to be half operating system, half preconfigured compatibility tweaks for all kinds of applications. That's how it kept its backwards compatibility.

realusername · 2025-12-30T18:05:38 1767117938

It's because wine OS selector actually tries to match bug for bug the OS version you set but Window's one gave up after Windows 7.

shakna · 2025-12-30T15:58:21 1767110301

More a case of DirectX radically changing how it worked [0].

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darti...