Morrowind Gotye World Map Problem, Corrupted World Map display Options

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I installed M:ESIII on my Xecuter 2.6 chipped Xbox about 5 years ago and I've been working through the game in large chunks since then but with up to a year inbetween. I'm now onto Mournhold and I've just noticed that the World Map is now displaying as a series of random coloured blocks all heavly pixelated.

If you run the cursor over the map the place names come up at the top but of course it is totally useless in this state. When this first happened I just don't know. I played Bloodmoon almost exactly a year ago and didn't notice the problem then. But I rarely used the World Map so it could have happened even earlier. I know several new glitches appeared when I'd finished the main game's main storyline about two years ago so it could have occurred as long ago as that and gone unnoticed.

The Local Map is working absolutely fine.

Has anyone else had or know about this problem and if there is a fix available to get the World Map working properly again?

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After much experimentation I've found a way of fixing the problem.

I didn't want to risk messing up my game so I started a new game on another Xbox. When I eventually got to see the World Map it was, as I thought, displaying correctly. I then looked at the X:\drive where the constantly being updated Morrowind game files, including the map, are held.

Immediately I noticed that there was an extra file: "Full Map" that is missing from the X:\ drive on my prime Xbox. So I decided the thing to do was to copy that file to the prime Xbox's X:\ drive.

Easier said than done. Copying it to an official memory card or a USB flash drive proved impossible despite there being plenty of room (2MB for a 774kB file). It simply refused to copy giving me an error 183 message every time.

I tried to copy the other map file there too - same problem. But two other files copied without any trouble. Never had anything like that happen with a Xbox memory card. Any explanation appreciated.

Then I tried FTPing between the Xboxes but the problem there was the X:\drive refused to be displayed, maybe because I'd deleted its contents in a previous attempted solution. I couldn't be bothered to re-load the game to create new X:\ drive files again. So, finally, I went the whole hog and using CoreFTP LE FTPed the entire new game X:\ drive contents to my laptop and then from there FTPed to the prime Xbox.

Worked perfectly and when I booted Morrowind and loaded from my latest save the World Map was displaying correctly once again. Yay!

Only problem is that the only locations visited/referred to immediately after starting a new game ie. Seyda Neen and Balmora area are displayed on the World Map. Didn't check the Local Map but I wouldn't be surprised if that was now mostly blank too.

Whether the game will update the dozens of places I've been when (and if) I revisit them and whether this will cause the same World Map issue to recur only time will tell.