Please help. I have fresh installed FSX and updated with SP1. Everything looks fine, except for the water in rivers like Rhein, Thames etc. This used to be nice blueish before SP! but now show up ugly greenish-brown. Has anybody seen this or am I the only one affected? Oceans, lakes have the usual blue colors.Thanks in advanceBert

Don't worry, Bert, we've all got muddy rivers. Haven't you seen a muddy river before? I think FSX rivers are pretty lifelike.Mike.

Mike's right, Bert. Every now and then I do a bit of real life flying (Cessna 172) over the Rhein (Rijn, Rhine) area near Wageningen and Rhenen, and the water really isn't blue at all from "up there". The FSX/SP1 colors are indeed fairly realistic.Be well!Jaap Verduijn.

What settings do you have for Water Effects in FSX?At any 1.x setting - you get the plain textures - which are pretty drab. Not as drab as the Google Earth photos of the lakes near my home - but it can be hard to see where the water begins and the farmland beings.At any 2.x setting or higher - reflections are enabled in FSX.That will add a tint of sky color to the water - which is how most water looks blue in reality - the sky blue reflecting off the water.There is a performance cost for moving up to 2.x and the extra passes necessary to render the image.

I notice no change in water color in FSX before or after SP1.I have found that in flying in real life, most inland water is brownish-gray on most days.Not that as Reggie says, if your water detail slider has changed between SP1 and before, it *can* effect the color you see in the sim. Water 1.x settings will yield a duller color. Water 2.x will yield a different tint to the water.Personally, I find much of the water far too blue vs. real life. Only on a bright sunny day in the tropics have I seen flourescent blue looking water. Particularly inland water. It's never bright blue in real life that I've seen.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

Gentlemen, thanks for your inputs. The scenery water effects slider was my problem. I have moved it from 1 to 2 and have the colors back I was used to. I am gratefull for all your help and blaming myself for not being able to find out myself. Thanks again.Bert