No, the "fragmentation" isn't a bad thing. Think of it in terms of innovations, if only one thing is allowed, will we ever actually get progress?

I mean look at multi-desktop as a good example.
That started as a friendly competition between window managers in the 90's. And then two decades later the first commercial (and inferior ito usability) clone of it appears.

I can't imagine being productive without that feature, for example.

So, keep the fragmentation, keep the ability to choose, because without choice life will be oh so dreary.

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I never knew about this. The original kickstarter was funded for a very low amount, but this looks very good.
I added it to my Steam Wishlist :grin:

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Feels like my answer hasn't changed in the last 5 or so of these questions.
I'm still playing OpenMW. I have sunk more time into Morrowind (again) than I think I sunk into both Oblivion and Skyrim. It actually has a very good story line/lore, and there are so many excellent mods that add so much.

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No, that's a UHD605, which is a about 1/5 the performance of a UHD620. It's also a quad core ATOM. the "N<number>" is a give away.

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I'm still just busy playing OpenMW. It's really a good game.

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Quoting: LinasThere is a huge resistance to Linux adoption in workspace IT support departments. Most places I have seen it's either completely forbidden to run Linux on your work machine or "don't ask, don't tell" kind of situation where you get zero support if something goes wrong. Software is bought and deployed without any consideration for Linux compatibility making it a minefield to navigate through as a Linux user. My direct boss literally pretends not to know that I run Linux, saying that I run "a more exotic kind of setup" if asked by the IT guys. :grin:

Sounds like my last 15 years of work... :whistle:

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Happy Birthday great site!
:-)

And Thank you for running with it for so long Liam. I'm sure it must have been tough at times.

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Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: grigiFor me it;s OpenMW 0.46 + a few mods.
I haven't played Morrowind in... a decade?
And I have to say, it's way more fun than Skyrim. The music in particular aged exquisitely.
Just the peoples faces/some clothes... Yech!

Yeah, KOTOR looks like LA Noire in comparison, and it's very nearly as old. :) A good character model replacement mod would be a godsend.

Indeed. better bodies introduces bizarre bugs (and changes the looks too much), and the other "good" character replacement mod (forgot the name) got removed for using copyrighted assets. So I just live with it.
Strange how some faces/bodies looks decent, and some just... ugh.

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For me it;s OpenMW 0.46 + a few mods.
I haven't played Morrowind in... a decade?
And I have to say, it's way more fun than Skyrim. The music in particular aged exquisitely.
Just the peoples faces/some clothes... Yech!

Before that I did some of "The Raven: Legacy of a master thief", "Terraria" and I finally finished "Tyrrany", which is an awesome game, much better that PoE for me. There's something satisfying being a villain that in his quest to be a nasty baddie, actually saves people from themselves. I realy enjoyed it.

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Quoting: NezchanSo I'm curious, as someone who's not really familiar with the OpenMW project. Is the goal here to make an engine that recreates the original Morrowind, or one that's actually an improvement on it in a kind of "Morrowind, but better" sense?

I just installed OpenMW 0.46, and set up some recommended mods for it.
And WOW, it is really so nice.

It's Morrowind, but less glitches, and runs REALLY WELL.
Shadows, texture packs + normal mapping, nice water, tamriel rebuilt, etc...
Runs smoothly at 1600x900 on an old skylake notebook iGP.

It was "better" than Morrowind for years, but I'd say its approaching "better" than the Morrowind + all the binary mods.

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