Morrowind crashes on exit

Its odd that it is crashing on you. Have you tried using the Disable Desktop Composition compatibility setting? Maybe something with Aero is messing it up?

What resolution are you running it at? I use the FPS optimizer to modify the registry values to bring the game resolution up to my desktop resolution (you can also just search the registry for the proper keys, or use the Morrowind Graphics Extender - all I use the FPS optimizer for is modifying that registry entry, I don't leave it running in the background or anything).

Look in the program folder (Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\morrowind) and see if there is an error log file or something.

You could also check the Windows Event Log to see if any errors/warnings were logged about Morrowind.

Have you installed the latest DirectX 9.0c redistributable? (Get the directx web updater from Microsoft's support site, it is better at finding missing dependencies than the installer Steam calls as part of its pre-requisites).

Hope it gets all worked out :) - I still find Morrowind fun after all of these years. Of course, I am not much for flashy graphics - the gameplay is solid for me.

Edit:

Also - did you just Install the MCP or did you actually run it and apply the patch? I had to install it, copy the files from the folder it put them in to the main Morrwind application folder, and then run and patch the executable that way. When you launch you sould see a version # in the bottom left corner that says MCP X.XX [where X.XX is the version of MCP]

Note: This is the only issue I'm having with the game. Everything else about it is running great. :)ChiliDragon

That is very odd - it isn't a Windows 7 problem, that is for sure (unfortunately :/) What AV suite do you have? Try setting it to ignore the Morrowind folder (This is just a suggestion, I don't know if it will help at all).carlosjuero

Do you have any file monitoring/disk cleanup software running resident? Something like an automatic mirror update, windows Defrag, etc - possibly disk access issues.carlosjuero

Do you have another drive on the computer you could test something on?carlosjuero

Reboot the computer into Safe Mode (Hold down Shift when starting the computer - I think this still brings up the Windows Boot Options menu if done in time, hitting F8 quickly after POST might work too - haven't had to do it with Windows 7 so I don't know if MS changed anything about it. You could also "force" the menu to show by forcing your PC to shut off without shutting down windows (generally hold the power button until the machine turns off).carlosjuero

[not just because Morrowind is a great game, but because the symptoms are endemic of a possibly bigger problem overall]carlosjuero

After all the talk about Oblivion and Morrowind in the past few days, I decided to finally play through the whole thing. I have the GOTY edition from Steam and 64-bit Win7 Home Premium, and after setting both the main exe and the launcher to run As Administrator, the game starts and runs fine, until I exit out of the game. When I cick on "exit" in the menu, it locks up in "not responding"-mode and I have to kill the game via Task Manager. Obviously this isn't game-breaking, but it's extremely annoying. Has anyone else had this happen, and found a solution? Things I've tried so far: Verified integrity of game cache. Uninstall and reinstall with reboot in between (re-verfied after reinstall) Run the exe and launcher in compatibility mode for XP SP 2 No mods yet, this is a vanilla install, but I want it to be stable and non-crashing before modding the thing.ChiliDragon

Morrowind, Oblivion and FO3 all do that for me. I do have all of them heavily modded, so I assume that some modification I'm running conflicts with the core engine in each game. It never really bothered me that much, so I've never looked into it. I just save before I exit and everything is fine. I've never had any of vanilla versions of the games do that to me when exiting.

My copy of Morrowind does the same too (also with Oblivion and Fallout NV on occasion, both games modded). I do have a ton of mods though and I'm using the graphics extender as well. I just got use to it TBH.

Thing is though, I can live with crash on exit. But this whole "can't load a save in-game because it crashes and has to be closed in Task Manager"-crashing it's doing is making the game more or less unplayable.ChiliDragon

Are you using quicksaves?

[QUOTE="ChiliDragon"]Thing is though, I can live with crash on exit. But this whole "can't load a save in-game because it crashes and has to be closed in Task Manager"-crashing it's doing is making the game more or less unplayable.StrawberryHill

Are you using quicksaves?