Hello, (hope this is the correct forum to post) I have a strange display problem with FS2004, and cannot figure out how to eliminate it. Only during night-time flights, there's a huge, gray 'cross' under my aircraft, and only over large bodies of water. The cross is on the surface of the water. Beyond this (solid) cross, I can see the water looks dark-aqua, which is normal I think, for night-time flying. Dusk, Dawn, and day-flights look very nice over ocean waters (Great Lakes, etc). But as soon as dusk slowly turns to night, that solid grey-cross 'creeps-in' and is displayed on the water again. It's very large, about 50x50 miles in size. I 'was' getting 'checkerboard' type blocks over water too, during dusk and dawn flights, but found 3 settings that eliminated this, they were:(in Display/Scenery settings)Water Effect "High"Dawn/Dusk Texture Blending = OffExtended Terrain Textures = 0ff I've re-installed FS-2004 2 times (default settings), tried 3 versions of different Nvidia drivers (default settings), and nothing helps. Seems like I've tried -every- single FS9 video-display setting (changing 1 setting at a time, turning on/off -all- settings, hundreds of different combinations), but that dang 'cross' still sits on the water, but only during night-time fights. It wouldn't bother me 'that' much, but in certain weather conditions (rain, low-clouds, night-flights, etc.) that grey-cross of water looks like 'land', and is very disorienting when landing. That, and the grey-cross just ruins the effect of flying over water at night. Does anyone have any idea why this might occur, and how to get rid of it? I've tried everything I can think of, and have no ideas how to fix this (maybe an FS9.cfg value change?, or perhaps a 3rd-party water-texture set?). Please help, this grey-cross thing is driving me nuts. Thank you, -teehole p.s. If it helps any, here's a simple list of systems specs below:Win98se, with critical updatesAbit KR7A-133 MB (latest CX-bios)BFG Ti-4200 128mb Video, using Nvidia v45.23 Win9x driversAthlon XP-2000+ CPU512mb Crucial Ram DX9.b

Bump - any ideas on that one? I have the same problem and couldn't find a way to fix it. Really annoying.Regards, Harald

is this the effect you guys are talking about? if so check out my origional post water colour issues 2004http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/53959.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/53960.jpg

I've written to MS lots of emails about this very problem.This was their final reply, today:Hi Word Not Allowed,This is ***** from Microsoft Games Product Support.Thank you for allowing me to check on this issue.Srdjan, the issue being noticed in the game can be caused because of the way in which the scenery in the game has been implemented. FS uses a polygonal implementation to implement the scenery in the game. When the scenery is viewed from a very high altitude the polygonal implementation of the scenery will certainly result in some kind of blocks and jags with edges due to computational approximations and this would become even more apparent where sea body meets a land mass or the horizon.This issue may show up even with a high end video card when flying at high altitudes. You can try reducing some of the display settings and check which setting range reduces the occurrence of this issue.Thank you for reporting this issue to us. I have forwarded this issue to the concerned department for consideration. You may also directly send these issue and any other comments about the product to the Microsoft Flight Simulator developers by sending email to: *********************** (I don't know really if this email is for me or if I could post it generally - write me an email if you want the MS email to mail them, I will surely write them about this soon).The product development team continuously collects feedback from users to improve the product and add new features. They go through each email that comes to them. The product development group may not respond back but rest assured the suggestions are individually scanned. Once again thank you for bringing this issue to our notice.Please let me know if there is any other way in which I can assist you, I will be glad to be of further assistance.I hope that I was able to help you with this information and will look forward to your response.Regards,*****

This is exactly what we're talking about. Well, according to MS that's the way it is. Just wondering where "very high altitude" starts, I have this phenomenon at regular cruising altitudes of FL350 or up.