OpenMW for Switch

Github repo: fgsfdsfgs/openmw
Latest version: 2 (28 Oct 2019, based on OpenMW 0.46.0)
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Features:
  • most things seem to work: sound, gamepad controls, intro videos, etc;
  • barebones touchscreen controls in tablet mode;
  • OpenGL 2.1 rendering.

This port is still in a very early state. Expect issues and bad performance. I have not tested it on any other Switch except mine.
This port is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bethesda Softworks and contains no code or resources copyrighted by or belonging to Bethesda Softworks.
To play the game, you need to copy a licensed installation of Morrowind from your PC.

To install, unzip openmw_nx_v2.zip into the switch folder on your SD card. Then:
If you already have an OpenMW install on your PC:
  1. Copy your openmw.cfg into /switch/openmw/config/ (for Windows users: it's in Documents/My Games/OpenMW). You might have to correct the data paths in the cfg file for this to work.
  2. Copy your data files (esm, esp, bsa, contents of the Data Files folder) into /switch/openmw/data/.
If you don't, but you own Morrowind:
  1. Install Morrowind.
  2. Copy the Data Files folder and Morrowind.ini file from your Morrowind installation into /switch/openmw/data/.

Known issues:

  • Exiting the game using the HOME button during a loading screen will crash it.
  • Cursor sometimes displays when it shouldn't.
  • Performance isn't very good.
  • User accounts that have non-ASCII characters in the name will be treated as an absence of user account (i.e. your saves will go into global).
  • Startup loading takes a long time. Depends on the SD you're using, for me it takes around 00:40 on the black screen with a total of 01:30 to get to the main menu with Morrowind GOTY.
  • Startup times can be decreased by packing loose files into a BSA archive. See this post for an example of how to do that.

Some notes:
  • You have to run this from either NSP hbmenu or from a game override. Applet mode does not offer enough memory.
  • The game will start with a black screen. You have to wait at this point. This can take up to 3 minutes (see above bug).
  • Press MINUS to bring up the software keyboard when an input field is selected.
  • Click LSTICK to enable/disable gamepad cursor control.
  • This has only been tested with the English release of Morrowind GOTY Edition, without any mods.
  • Mods should probably work, however you'll have to either edit your openmw.cfg manually or use openmw-launcher on PC, then copy the config file over.
  • The port is bundled with a performance-tuned config file (/switch/openmw/default/settings-base.cfg). Feel free to play around with that or /switch/openmw/config/settings.cfg to find out a better compromise between performance and quality.
  • If you somehow avoid selecting a user account, your saves will go into /switch/openmw/data/global.
  • If the game crashes, check /switch/openmw/fatal.log and /switch/openmw/config/openmw.log.

Credits:

  • OpenMW team and contributors for OpenMW;
  • terabyte25 for help and code contributions;
  • Gluka for help;
  • xyzz for some patches and build scripts;
  • fincs, Armada651, Subv and probably others for their work on the OpenGL/mesa/libdrm stuff;
  • Bethesda Softworks for TES3: Morrowind.
 
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I really don't know what might be causing this.
Can you post openmw.log and fatal.log if they exist? What firmware and CFW are you running? What is your SD card?
 
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I really don't know what might be causing this.
Can you post openmw.log and fatal.log if they exist? What firmware and CFW are you running? What is your SD card?

Thank you for your answer here is the openmw.log:

Loading config file: ./config/openmw.cfg
Loading config file: ./default/openmw.cfg
OpenMW version 0.46.0
Revision: bbb3dcb727
Using default (English) do encoding.
OSG version: 3.6.4
SDL version: 2.0.8
Loading settings file: ./default/settings-default.cfg
Adding BSA archive ./data/Data Files / Morrowind.bsa
Adding BSA archive ./data/Data Files / Tribunal.bsa
Adding BSA archive ./data/Data Files / Bloodmoon.bsa
Adding data directory ./resources/vfs
Adding data directory ./data
Adding data directory ./data/Data Files
Ignoring duplicate data directory ./data

here is my SD card:
https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B013UDL5HU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I installed the latest version of kosmos and my firmware is version 8.0.1
 

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It shouldn't. Both French and English versions use win1252, which is the default in the ini importer. Only Russian and Polish should require any special treatment.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Can you try disabling Bloodmoon and Tribunal? You can do that by deleting these lines from config/openmw.cfg:
Code:
fallback-archive=Tribunal.bsa
fallback-archive=Bloodmoon.bsa
content=Tribunal.esm
content=Bloodmoon.esm
 

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[QUOTE = "fgsfds, post: 8669428, member: 462801"] t shouldn't. Both French and English versions use win1252, which is the default in the ini importer. Only Russian and Polish should require any special treatment.
thank you, it does not work either when I run the program it gives me a return on hbmenu


openmw log :

Loading config file: ./config/openmw.cfg
Loading config file: ./default/openmw.cfg
OpenMW version 0.46.0
Revision: bbb3dcb727
Using default (English) font encoding.
No content file given (esm/esp, nor omwgame/omwaddon). Aborting...
 
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You seem to have also deleted the content line for Morrowind.
Add this at the end of config/openmw.cfg:
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fallback-archive=Morrowind.bsa
content=Morrowind.esm
 

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Hey everyone, I made a forwarder for this, and even made a nice sys-clk profile (that seems to help a lil bit) too. Forwarder: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/554045140881375232/587092578265202721/Morrowind_Forwarder.nsp

For sys-clk, just add these lines to your config.ini:

#Open Morrowind Forwarder
[052E60D8786B0000]
docked_cpu=1785
docked_gpu=786
docked_mem=1600
handheld_charging_cpu=1224
handheld_charging_gpu=786
handheld_charging_mem=1600
handheld_charging_usb_cpu=1224
handheld_charging_usb_gpu=786
handheld_charging_usb_mem=1600
handheld_charging_official_cpu=1224
handheld_charging_official_gpu=786
handheld_charging_official_mem=1600
handheld_cpu=1224 handheld_gpu=460
handheld_mem=1600
 

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Can you try installing OpenMW on PC and then copying openmw.cfg from Documents/My Games/OpenMW?

I tried but there are changes to make especially on the data="D:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Morrowind\Data Files"

I put:
data: "sdmc:\switch\openmw\data\Data Files"
apparently the path is not correct because I have a return hbmenu, I also tried to erase the line but same result
 

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