settings for radeon 6990 - switch from nvidia

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HundertneunGustav, a few things.

Water=4 is perfect, we ATI users can only do max water=2. Anything higher than 2 is ignored. I have personally verified this with testing, and this is what you will find every single other post on this subject in multiple other forums agree with. If you put it over water=2, it will change the conf.ini and drop it back down to 1.

You also have a few Nvidia specific options checked, namely these:

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=1
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1
TexFlags.DepthClampNV=1
TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1
TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=1

The game will ignore these, as they are Nvidia driver-specific code paths for the rendering engine, even with VideoID set to custom (17). You should set these to 0. Again I've verified these through testing, and is consistence with what other forums' posts say.

You also are running a modded game, given your conf.ini. I also have installations of UP3 and DBW 1.71, and the DBW 1.71 install + the water textures looks awesome, just like in your screenshot.

The bone stock, unmodded game looks very drab and crappy though.