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How to Integrate OpenMW with Steam

By Hamod9041

This Guide will highlight the steps needed to Integrate OpenMW with Steam so that your gameplay Hours are Recorded and get access to the Overlay UI Ingame.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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5 Aug, 2017 @ 12:51pm

28 Jun, 2022 @ 8:01am

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

How to set it up

Conclusion

Comments

Introduction

NOTE: Check out Lil Lumby's new guide for an updated method. This guide should still work however I haven't tested it in a while since I switched to linux.

I found it so annoying when i tried to use openmw as steam didn't identify it as morrowind. After a lot of research I couldn't Find any guide on how to do it, However after dabbling into steam's launch commands I found a way to run morrowind through steam.

NOTE: As of 0.43 this won't work if you run morrowind as an administrator

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING PLEASE BACKUP YOUR MORROWIND DIRECTORY AND SAVES!!

How to set it up

1. After you installed Openmw copy all the contents of the OpenMW folder into Morrowind's Main Directory (Note that I am refering to the main Directory which contains Morrowind.exe)

2. Backup Morrowind.exe and Morrowind Launcher.exe

3. Remove Morrowind Launcher and rename Openmw_Launcher.exe Into Morrowind Launcher.exe

4. Go to your Steam Library and Right click on Morrowind and select Properties

5. Click on "Set Launch Options" and add "-benchmark"

6. Launch Morrowind through Steam and you should be able to play OpenMW with Steam

Conclusion

If you followed the steps correctly you should be able to Launch morrowind through steam and be Greeted with Openmw's Launcher. This Should work with TES3MP though I haven't Tried it yet.

Please send me a message if you’re facing any issues

Thank You for Reading and Blessings of the ALMSIVI Upon You...

79 Comments

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_Dagoth 31 Dec, 2024 @ 12:55pm

This works but FOV slider disappears

elvis has left the building 28 Dec, 2024 @ 1:05pm

+rep for mentioning linux

Argox666 21 Dec, 2024 @ 11:33am

Thank you very much !

gorgantaahst 15 Sep, 2024 @ 2:46pm

i just set launch options to this:

"C:\Program Files\OpenMW 0.48.0\openmw.exe" %cmmand%

and it works just fine

Lt. Don Draper 3 Feb, 2024 @ 3:15pm

I just do this in launch options for tes3mp. Other people are saying the same thing. You don't need to rename. You haven't added this so I'm still writing this comment.
"F:\FGames\Morrowind\tes3mp.Win64.release.0.8.1\tes3mp.exe" %command%

Worques 25 Dec, 2023 @ 1:42am

What worked for me on Linux:

Do step 1 (copy OpenMW files to Morrowind folder)
Skip steps 2-4
On step 5, put this into launch options:

./openmw-launcher #%command%

ichijou 5 May, 2023 @ 5:09pm

god bless you my n'wah

watermelon 2 May, 2023 @ 1:19pm

I tried doing what Sparkette said which is

openmw #%command%

This works for my Linux installation. It skips the launcher though but the settings from the launcher set previously are still remembered. You don't even need to click play the settings to be applied to Morrowind. ( Though I haven't tested this extensively so I am not 100% sure ).

danny 21 Aug, 2022 @ 3:08pm

on windows you can just go straight to step 4 and on step 5 you just put the location to open mw, like this

"D:\Games\OpenMW 0.47.0\openmw.exe"
make sure to KEEP the quotation marks

Sparkette 13 Aug, 2022 @ 12:42am

I think I came up with a much simpler way. Skip the first three steps and start from step 4, except instead of "-benchmark", set the launch options to:

openmw #%command%

Keep in mind I've only tested this on Linux. This might work on Mac, but almost certainly not on Windows.

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