Anyone have Morrowind going on nforce2 gf4 onboard graphics?

[PingSpike]

So I'm building a wicked cheap system for my fiance's little brother/family christmas present. The kid went out and bought morrowind and tried to play it on his K6-II 450 with 128mb of ram and onboard graphics. Yeah, so that didn't work.

I'm trying to slap the system together on the cheap because I don't have that much money either, but I still want to leave some upgrade room and get morrowind running alright. I've got 2x256 crucial pc2700 for him. Gonna snag a cheap hard drive, and I have my old faithful xp1800+ dlt3c that I'm going to modestly overclock in the system.

Which leaves me with the motherboard/ram. I'm going to upgrade my card probably in a few months or so and I can donate my old ti4200 to him for his birthday or something...but I he'll need a video card in the mean time. I've been thinking about snagging one of the IGP nforce boards (probably the biostar) and just using the onboard gf4 mx graphics. Yeah, I know they're only dx7 and he'll have no pretty water for awhile...but will it run the game at 1024x768 (menus are hard to read under that) acceptably? I had a geforce2 mx400 in a similar setup to this, and it was a bit choppy but playable at 8x6.

Morrowind is an inefficient hog, even my current system's ti4600 doesn't run it as fast as I like...but I'd just like him to be able to handle this game reasonably well.

Anyone have good experience with this?

 

[Bateluer]

I ran Morrowind on the original Radeon Mobility 32MB on an XP1700 laptop. Couldn't crank up much inthe way of details, but it ran.

 

[Coquito]

My mx440 64mb ran at 1024 on medium settings(although, low visability). It is such a beautiful game, even compared to current times. I would love to play through it with max settings one day.

 

[MiranoPoncho]

meh, if my 1.0 cel;ery rig with geforce 4 420, pci btw can run it at 1024x768 with lots of other stuff then it sure will!

 

[Concillian]

My girlfriend's little brother ran Morrowind for a while on a Slot 1 Athlon 800 and a GeForce2 GTS 32MB. I gave him the game (I was long done with it) and watched him play for a while. It was doing alright. Settings weren't maxed or anything and it didn't look as good as it did on my Ti 4200 when I played it. But it looked pretty good and played well enough, but with occasional noticeable frame rate dips. FPS dips are more acceptable in that kind of a game anyway.

 

[drpootums]

The comp i'm typing on has an Asus mobo (it's a compaq so i dont know what model) with nForce 2 chipset and graphics. I occasionally play ES3 and it runs it at 10x7, all details, and with 2x AA enabled. No pretty water yes, but it's very smooth.

However, this is with a 2600+. But it shouldnt make too much of a difference if you're going to oc anyways.