Did Morrowind on the Original XBOX really reboot itself to free memory ?
Added 2021-04-12 11:46:59 +0000 UTCThe Elders Scroll III Morrowind is an open world action role playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios in 2002 for the Original Xbox. In a recent podcast Todd Howard claimed - "In Morrowind, If you're running low on memory you can reboot the Original Xbox and the user cant tell".
Of course I had to investigate these claims. In this episode we take a closer look at The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind and understand how it came with unique memory management.
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Man, I played the hell out of Morrowind on the Xbox. I remember back in the day, I couldn't play my saves anymore because it kept crashing the console because (From old memories) the game loaded the crpse of every dead actor and never despawned them.
Murk17
2021-04-27 08:02:05 +0000 UTCSame here. As a developer, not to mention also an OG Xbox user, I enjoyed this one quite a lot!
Matei Radu
2021-04-12 12:52:31 +0000 UTCNot sure what the rest of the audience thinks, but as a fellow programmer I love these in-depth videos about how certain game features were done in code :)
Farsil
2021-04-12 12:11:45 +0000 UTC
