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Water problem - Wing Commander Bader - 10-02-2007
I'm using the Real Environment Pro water download and it looks great. Trouble is, the textures in the distance don't match those in the foreground!
The foreground is beautiful, reflective water while the distant textures are blue, blobby and horrible. My specs: CPU AMD 64 3000+ 1GB Ram, 6600gt 128
GPU. I've noticed this effect with all water downloads. Is it a case of the download not including distant textures? I've downloaded terrain for
Battle of Britain 2 and these downloads mention 'fartiles' (distant textures). Some of these match with the foreground and some don't. Does anyone
know if there are 'fartile' textures for FS2004 water downloads? Or can someone suggest a water texture download (freeware please) where the water
textures go all the way to the horizon? Thanks in advance!
Re: Water problem - Joeflyer - 10-02-2007
Personally I like FS Water. I've never had a problem with water textures as you described. FS Water is payware,however.
Re: Water problem - Dutch64 - 10-02-2007
Textures in far distance will never be the same as nearby. They get only loaded when you fly nearer. What's your visibilty limit set at in fs9?
Re: Water problem - Wing Commander Bader - 10-02-2007
@ Dutch64 It's set to maximum visibility. What should I set it to? God, forums are so helpful!! You ask almost any question and it gets answered
double quick!
Re: Water problem - Dutch64 - 10-02-2007
Still trying to remember the proper name of the setting but it's on settings page, weather tab, then above cloud draw distance. I have it at 70which is quite far already because they say in real world you usually can't see any further than 40 miles or so.
It also saves you a huge amount of processor power to push the slider more to the left
Re: Water problem - Garbagecan - 10-02-2007
Hi WCB,
i had exactly the same problem as described above by you. It did not really bother me until i set my general display settings and weather
settings to default. I noticed the water effects (I use a freeware water texture addon from avsim) returned to normal as seen on screenies
by other people, so step by step i played on my graphics settings until i found the optimal settings (that is good viewing distance without
choppy looking textures and stable frame rates)
I had changed my graphics card about two months ago and when i checked the settings cfg file my old graphics card was listed there
even though i changed it in the menu in fs. So i deleted the cfg file (reseting to default) and fs created a new cfg file in which my new gc
was finally listed. That may be an issue for you to you might want to check.
Greetings
Victor
Re: Water problem - FsP Dennis - 10-02-2007
I got mine at 45nm visibility and I can only recommed that
Re: Water problem - Wing Commander Bader - 11-02-2007
Salutations, forum! Lots of stuff for me to try! Danke schon!!!
Re: Water problem - FsP Dennis - 11-02-2007
Isn't it spelled: Danke schön ?
I think you guys can hear I got german in the school 
Re: Water problem - Wing Commander Bader - 12-02-2007
Yeah, but I dunno where the umlaut (that's probably not how to spell it) is on the keyboard. I mean the little double dots over the 'o'.
Re: Water problem - FsP Dennis - 12-02-2007
hit the buttum on the keyboard where those signs are on: ~¨^ (just left to enter) first hit that and after hit O
Re: Water problem - DBE - 12-02-2007
Don't think the umlaut is part of the standard British keyboard, Dennis: ==> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbduk.htm
But there's always the old hacker's trick (jeeez: haven't used this one for at least the last 10 years): keep pressing the [Alt]-key and press 148 on
the numerical keypad.
Re: Water problem - Dutch64 - 12-02-2007
Wasn't there a way to write it if you don't have the umlaut? Something like schoen or so?
Re: Water problem - DBE - 12-02-2007
Quote:Dutch64 wrote:
Wasn't there a way to write it if you don't have the umlaut? Something like schoen or so?
Yep: absolutely correct, Martin.
Re: Water problem - DSW334 - 12-02-2007
hmmm but then if I write dank schoen I actually mean danke shoe as schoen = shoe