FS9: Unable to set "water effects" slider to maximum - anyone else with this problem?

No sorry - have every other concievable problem with FS9 but not that one!Andrew

Hey Rudi, since no one else has responded, I will. I seem to recall that only DX9 compliant video cards will allow that slider to be maxed. I have no experience here but I do remember reading something about this. (All this from a man who barely remembers Saturday.) I hope that I have not lead you astray. R-

Yes but it has only started to happen in the last 24 hours..If I set the Terrain Detail slider to Max the Water Effects slider will drop to Medium. Move the Water Effects to max and the Terrain slider drops.. :)My problem is probably through tinkering with the FS9.cfg file..boneshttp://fsaviation.net

I don't believe it is possible to have the terrain and water effects sliders set to max at the same time.

From the readme doc in your flightsim folder:Water effects

Thanks everybody for the great replies, and for pointing out the readme.rtf.I think my card just can't do it. I get waves, but that's the only water effect I can see. If I move the terrain slider to low and the water effects slider to high, the setting won't stay and the water effects slider always reverts back to medium regardless of any other slider settings. Hmph!Maybe I should try Geof's spectacular display.cfg discovery/fix and see if that will do anything. Thanks again everyone!

What video card do you have? If you can't set the water detail to High regardless of the terrain detail setting then it's most likely FS thinks your card doesn't support animated textures.(BTW, I believe the reason you can't have both set to high is that they are both two-pass rendering techniques and applying both would mean three rendering passes by the card.)

It's a GeForce4 MX 440 w/ AGP 8X, 64 mb

As I thought. The "MX" is basically an updated GeForce2 card and is likely does not support some of the more advanced rendering functions.

Correct. The Geforce 4 "MX" series are basically overclocked Geforce2 cards with faster memory. They do not support the water effects in FS2004. You need a Geforce4 "Ti" or Radeon 8500 or better (DirectX 8).