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Also, a suggestion or two, if I might:

I have a high performance machine similar to your top-rated slider machine, but I found the MGE XE options kinda... inadequate? There's SO MUCH more pretty to be had.

A couple things I did to make an even bigger visual difference with little performance impact:

Performance Increases:
1. AF from 16x to 8x (no visual difference, performance increase)
2. Caustics from 80 (!) to 35 (looks more realistic, might save a frame or two)
3. Draw Distance from 20 (!) to 9 cells. (you can't normally see past 12 cells normally anyway, and 9 is a nice performance compromise for the following...)

Visual Quality Increases:
1. Fog mode from Depth Pixel to Range Vertex (very little performance ding, noticeable improved fog quality)
2. Distant Statics- Near [100] end [2.5]; Far [400] end [5]; Very Far [600] end [9] (Big difference in in-game shadows, density. Fairly large FPS hit. Distance past statics is pointless.)
3. Fog- Start [1] end [8.9]

Misc
1. Checked Responsive menu caching
2. Allow screenshots check is pointless with MGE's screenshot capability. I unchecked it.

Maybe useful for an ultra-high setting? The Performance increases, in any case, could help some of those guys on the border with the high-end slider setting.

edit:

I figured I better post my machine so you can compare.

CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.4GHz
VGA: GTX570 @ 870/ 1975
RAM: 8Gb DDR3
HDD: Samsung 470 SSD

I am getting 25-50 FPS with about 100 additional mods and a pretty heavy MGSO install.

I just added your settings works well for me. Thanks for the tips. Incidentally...I couldn't find the fog setting?
>>>>THIS: Fog mode from Depth Pixel to Range Vertex (very little performance ding, noticeable improved fog quality)

Also I'd like to pull in the fog distance a bit seeing Vivec from Seyda Neen makes it look kind of small. Suggestions what to alter.

Thanks in advance!

Precisely. That's also why you don't want to log in the first time you open it.

FIrst of all, make sure Steam isn't set to run when you start windows. It needs to be completely off. The you should be able to cut and paste the steamapps directory anywhere you want.

I have a deployment coming up and this has just given me a good reason to dig up my copy of morrowind! Thanks to everybody that made this possible!

I haven't played Morrowind for years, but this looks amazing! Is there a list somewhere of mods which are/aren't compatible with Morrowind Overhaul (Like Morrowind Comes Alive, can I use both at the same time?)

Yep, already known.
Will be fixed in an auto update.

Heh. Small, amusing observation: some of the splash screens replace the vanilla ones with French screens. Not drastically terrible, but noticeable and immersion-breaking

Oh, Slartibarfast just released an update for the Bloodmoon overhaul, can you think of any reason this won't go well with MGSO?

Splash screens break immersion? That's . . . interesting.

Oh, Slartibarfast just released an update for the Bloodmoon overhaul, can you think of any reason this won't go well with MGSO?

The negative LOD results in aliasing only in some resolutions/specific configurations.
In the others it can be a cool quality improvement (like in my case).