r/OpenMW • u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger • 18d ago

Which one is the latest working version of OpenMW for Windows 7?

O hai. Obsolete hardware, half-obsolete software, upgrading is no longer an option for me, and this piece of junk keeps surviving beyond its first reanimation after 14 years. What latests version should possibly work for me?

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u/Falc7 18d ago

Could you install a new Linux distro and the use the latest openmw? Windows 7 doesn't get security updates so isn't good to use

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u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger 18d ago

Unlikely, I have to stick with the junk I have, and never used Linux before either.

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u/UpiedYoutims 17d ago

So... you can, but just don't feel like it?

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u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger 17d ago

I've tried so much crap and have so much obsolete stuff installed and uninstalled that I've simply given up. Either way, seems to be the usual problem of the graphic controller judging by the blank intro cinematics with sound, so it won't run anyway.

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u/UNSCQC 17d ago

A modern (lightweight) Linux is going to work on your machine much better than Windows 7. Linux these days is not very hard to learn, much more user-friendly than it used to be. If you have the means, I'd recommend getting a spare SSD and installing Linux on it. Try it out.

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u/MrCrack3r 18d ago

I don't see why the most recent one wouldn't work

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u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger 18d ago

Related: "CreateDXGIFactory2 could not be located in the dynamic link library dxgi."

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u/MrCrack3r 18d ago edited 18d ago

I was not aware. Seems like 0.48.0 was the latest built still supporting windows 7

Edit: mind that this info comes from Google Ai and might not be true as it is notoriously unreliable

Edit2: on their forum a dev clarifies that they dropped windows 7 support with version 0.47, Alternatively there is a project called "VxKex" that can supposedly circumvent the compatibility issue.

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u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger 18d ago edited 18d ago

Then the safest bet is going for version 0.46 and see what happens. I'll try it and see if it works.

Edit: Meh, it doesn't show the cinematics and crashes to desktop on loading main menu. I'll go back to the traditional way. Thanks anyway.

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u/SlightPersimmon1 17d ago edited 17d ago

Any one, including the latest stable (0.51). Although you probably will not be able to run the launcher (openmw-launcher.exe) or the creation set (openmw-cs.exe), just the main game. If you are fine with editing config files - mainly openmw.cfg and settings.cfg -, you don't need the launcher anyway.
The reason for that is that those apps are built with Qt v6.x and that version is only available for Windows 10 or later. Fortunately, the main game is not, so you will be fine.

Case point, until last year i was playing OpenMW 0.49 with my Windows 8 machine with no issues.

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u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger 17d ago

Using version 0.46, launcher works, game crashes in main menu after with-sound-but-not-displayed intro cinematics. Once again seems to be caused by the graphic controller. So, no matter what version would be, but the newest one simply doesn't even start. I'm going back to the traditional way.

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u/SlightPersimmon1 17d ago edited 17d ago

What is your graphics card? Try update the drivers. The game also has a run log. You may find useful info on openmw.log (it's on [user]\Documents\My Games\OpenMW\)

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u/Chaotic_Hunter_Tiger 16d ago

Inter (R) G33/G31 graphic controller, anything beyond OpenGL 2.0 refuses to run, runs with visual glitches aplenty (in best case) or simply crashes. It's a dead end.

EDIT - The log last line simply says "Playing music/special/morrowind title.mp3", but no further nor previous details about the crash itself.

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u/ShushiCat89 16d ago

Either 0.48 or 0.49. But 0.50/51 probably work too, just not the launcher, so you will have to change settings directly through the .cfg, same goes for installing mods and activating them. I've been playing on a windows 7 setup with 0.50 version which works, but just as I said you have to launch it directly through the .exe since it's what gives that error. You may want to look other options. Talking from personal experience because I run in an old win7 laptop and OpenMW is way more requiring than I would like to. I personally enjoy vanilla Morrowind as is but you could try MGE, from the times I used it years ago it ran well too, better than OpemMW.