No water action

[Guest shelley1995]

Hi, Have just installed a new computer with plenty of everything. This is the first time though that I am using windows xp. I was using windows me before. I installed fs09 into computer. Everything seems to be fine except that I can't get the water movement. When I place sliders on high, for some reason the slider reverts back to low. I installed Bill and Lynn Lyons water textures but I am getting nothing. Before I switched to new computer, I had no problem with using this in windows me. I have the Nvidia mx400 graphics card that came with the Sony Vaio desktop. It has 64 mg. Can someone please help? Thank you much, S.

[Guest John_Cillis]

The mx400 card does not support the water detail in FS2004, I'm sorry to say, although it does in FS2002. This is due to Microsoft's use of DX-9 in FS2004, which the MX400 doesn't support. The MX400 is way out of date in terms of what video cards can do today. Do what I did if you're on a budjet--try to find a cheap 4200TI--mine is 128 megs, and it supports beautiful water reflections and detail... But consider even that a stepping stone, as it takes even more graphics card to get the best out of FS2004.-John