A strange thing happened to me the other day.After reading a post on here, I finally tried some wet and rainy weather in FSX to check out the wet runway appearance.All I got was some wierd light blue tiny dots stretching out about 20 feet in front of the aircraft on the runway. It looked nothing like the shots I have seen.Is there some option in FSX or my video driver that needs to be turned on to get this effect working properly?In FSX I have water set at 1x high.Light bloom is not enabledNeither of these settings seems to make any difference.Glenn

Glenn,Havn't tried it myself yet, as only installed FSX last night, but I suspect that you may need to ensure your graphics card can handle 'shader level 2' and set your water setting to 2 x.Hope helps.Cheers,Stuart

Stuart,Thanks, but I think I tried setting the water to 2x high and it made no difference. I will double check later............My card is a Radeon X1900GT, which is SM3.0 so no problems there AFAIK.I will keep trying.Thanks,Glenn

Your card is definitely capable of handling the effect. Have you trie increasing the graphic settings to high or extremely dense. Also check animation settings.Ron

the water setting has no effect on the wet runway appearance.The only thing I have found that effects it is your AA and AF settings.The wet runways don't look that great to me, either. They look..."ok" I guess. But there are a lot of grainy-looking reflective "dots"--if you will...in the vicinity. And I don't think that's quite right.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

If you happened to apply the Shader2.0 tweak to your fsx.cfg you will lose the wet runway effects among other things.Jim

Rhett,Your description matches exactly what I am seeing.It looks nothing like the ACES screenshots of wet runways.Jim,No shader tweak applied. All stock installation except for autogen tweaks.I will try and post a screenshot later.Glenn

>If you happened to apply the Shader2.0 tweak to your fsx.cfg>you will lose the wet runway effects among other things.>>JimJust to add to that, if you did use the Shader20Plus=13 setting, add the line UseShaders=1 also, and you'll get the wet runway effects back, as well as wing flex.

I'm not a fan of the effect on a Radoeon X800XL. it jut look swrong to me- like others say reflective dots as opposed to a reflective surface.

Ok, I think I have tried every single combination of settings possible and all I get is the same thing. Tiny light blue shimmering dots that stretch out about 20-30 feet in front of the aircraft.Shouldn't the taxiways etc look wet too?I don't know what's going on, but it looks flaming awful........Glenn

Glenn I already posted a shot a while back. And everyone said, "That looks fine to me", and "that looks normal". I couldn't believe what I was hearing. And some of these people are satisfied with the less-than-ideal wet effects but are not satisfied with the less-than-ideal frame rates. I feel the same way about the 2.x water. Too much graininess out about 20-30 yards from the aircraft. People said that's fine and normal.I was thinking, water doesn't look like a grain-fest around my plane. 16xAA helps but there is only so much that can be done. Perhaps some of the SLI setups that can do higher AA modes show it well? Don't know.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

I know your using ATI, but I just thought i'd let you know, I found the turning of AF on my nVidia card greatly improved the look of wet runways. I don't know why, but with AF at 16x I got loads of shinny dots on the runway, when I turned it too OFF, i got what the screenshots look like. I have filtering set to Ansio in FSX.

We'll see how these two shots show, considering the actual wetness is animated, which makes it look even more of a watery surface.Geforce 7600GShttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/164163.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/164164.jpg

confirm. same card, same look. shader tweak in placelooked good on the antique 9500, before i switched to nvidia a while ago so i would say, keep trying. fingers crossedhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/164167.jpg

ok, this is what I am seeing..........It kind of looks like the shots posted above......This cant be right though. It looks nothing like those shots we saw from ACES during development. When did a wet runway ever look like this?http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/164168.jpg