Why the water is so black?

damar · #1 03-31-2011, 09:52 AM

Even I set highest effect in game.The water is still black as oil.
I checked water=-1 in conf.ini. I tried to change to 0 and 1,but stuck at loading screen of mission.
I changed back =-1,and can enter & fly but still black water.
Anybody has same problem?

ckolonko · #2 03-31-2011, 10:16 AM

wow that is black!

Stonehouse · #3 03-31-2011, 10:20 AM

Ok you have black I get green texture with a circle of nice water below the aircraft. It seems to be related to level of detail for me as the circle of water contracts and expands as I get further or closer to the water.

Specs:
June 2010 DX9c (latest)
Drivers = 266.58 (latest)
Card = GF 9800GTX+
Win XPSP3

Pics attached (hopefully). I had a friend try my conf.ini on his Win7 machine and he got the same issue but then when he changed the render method to D3D10 it went away. He also tried changing his own conf.ini to D3D9 and got this issue. Not sure what his drivers are other than they would be most likely the latest for Win7 and the GFX range of Nvidia cards.

If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate some help too.

Thanks,
Stonehouse

#4 03-31-2011, 12:29 PM

Those bastards! They ruin everything!

MJDixon · #5 03-31-2011, 05:17 PM

I had the issue with the green textured distant water as well (on XPSP3 as well) - but managed to sort it while trying to increase FPS, as when I changed the Forest setting to Very Low the sea went back to normal (Forest setting was previously set to low.)

Presumably it's some sort of tree based texture error? (Would explain why it's green I suppose.)

Of course the only problem now is there are no trees.

Space Communist · #6 03-31-2011, 05:57 PM

I am thinking you guys might want to try an OS that wasn't released a decade ago.

Col.Flanders · #7 03-31-2011, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Space Communist

I am thinking you guys might want to try an OS that wasn't released a decade ago.

Is XP stated as being below min spec?

If not, why should there be a problem?