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This is the original: Alexander Stasenko's incredible must-have Morrowind supplemental tool, the Morrowind FPS (Frames Per Second) Optimizer. This tool provides many excellent benefits, especially for users with high-end video cards.

• greater visibility range via fog depth (view distance) tweaking
• set your desired FPS range (which the optimizer will automatically adjust fog depth to try and meet)
• set separate fog/fps rates for game menus and combat
• adjust the minimum and maximum view distances
• auto-activate running during combat sequences
• set the menu mouse speed (a huge bonus for players using very high resolution settings)
• "turbo haggle," which speeds up the haggling process (can be disabled for purists)
• set a hotkey to change music tracks on the fly
• set separate music volume (as a percentage of normal) for exploring and battles
• and a tab to set/adjust ATI TRUFORM settings for users with ATI cards that have TRUFORM enabled (the 8500 series and above).

This is, in my opinion, the most essential add-on for Morrowind available. If you're playing without it, you're not playing the best game you can, plain and simple. Morrowind has maintained its popularity for over a half-decade - this page remains one of the most popular on the site - and with the huge increase in computing and video power, now more than ever the Morrowind FPS Optimizer can bring you to a whole new level of adventure in the world of Vvardenfel! It is my honor and privilege to host the only author-sanctioned US mirror for this world-class application; we hope that you'll consider helping us keep the server online by making your next gaming purchase from Amazon.Com using the Amazon Search Tool on the left side of the screen, or one of the links to the left to purchase your Morrowind software.

There are several different "versions" of the Morrowind FPS Optimizer that you can download. Please select the one that best suits your needs.

• Standard Morrowind FPS Optimizer - (.ZIP) This is the "normal" version, which should be useable for anyone with current MFC libraries on their computer. If you don't know what that means, try this one first, if it doesn't work, some back and get the "static" version.
• Static Morrowind FPS Optimizer - (.RAR) This is the "Static" version, which includes the necessary MFC libraries hard-coded into the .exe file. If you get a "missing DLL" error when you try to run the standard optimizer, or if you're trying for the smallest possible memory footprint, use this file; because it uses its own attached MFC libraries rather than the ones on your machine, it uses a little bit less memory.
• Lite Morrowind FPS Optimizer - (.RAR) This is for experienced users only. It has no "novice" mode, no "write log" capability for troubleshooting, and no help file.
• Executable-Only Morrowind FPS Optimizer - (.RAR) This is for VERY experienced users only, and it intended to be used WITH one of the other versions. This version has no user interface. You must run one of the other versions to set your options FIRST (options are written to an .ini file, which this version then references automatically), then use this version when playing the game. Due to the lack of any user interface, this one (obviously) has the smallest memory footprint.

I worked diligently with Alexander to ensure that LowGenius.Net always had the latest version of the Morrowind FPS Optimizer, and the files hosted here are the last ones he ever released. I have recently seen a version of the Optimizer being billed as "2.0" however, it's really just the same tool, unmodified, with a couple of other mods packaged with it.  Given the nature of the mods and the comments I've seen about them, in my opinion you're better off just using one of these files.

Note - these are the 1.96a versions, as far as I know.  If someone finds out differently, please let me know and I'll dig through my massive archives and see what I can find.  If nothing else I should be able to get in touch with Alexander.

The purpose of this mirror is to provide a faster download than is available at the author's site, which is located in Russia. Please contact me have any issues or questions!

Morrowind FPS Optimizer.v1.96.zip (109.82 kb)

Morrowind FPS Optimizer.exec.v1.96.rar (73.61 kb)

Morrowind FPS Optimizer.lite.v1.96.rar (49.36 kb)

Morrowind FPS Optimizer.static.v1.96.rar (191.64 kb)