Why the water is so black?

[Stonehouse]

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