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Right...
Let me just contribute to the general confusion about this: I couldn't see any reflections in the water the first couple of days I used FS04 - no matter how I set the sliders. Then I scanned a local (danish) newsgroup. One guy wrote, that in order to really see the water reflections, you had to go to "international settings" and change it from "Danish" to "English (US)". This sounded as the most far out thing I had ever heard - but I tried it - and it worked! Now I have really cool reflections and it really doesn't affect framerate much! Only thing that really confuses me now is that I used to get the best fraerates in fullscreen mode. Now, I get rates of 20-25 fps in Windows mode - but only 10-15 fps in fullscreen. (resolution: 1280x1024 in both views. Any good explanations here? Anders Denmark System: AMD 1200 512 Mb Nividia Ti4200 128 MB "Worrybird" skrev i en meddelelse .net... The FS2004 Water Effects Slider works backwards. Wait until you see what it is supposed to look like, its really an astounding effect! To get the effect: Options - Settings - Display Max out the Terrain detail: land & water (all the way to the right) Water effects: None (all the way to the left) Go flying and bring your bathing suit. |
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But are your drivers DX9 compliant?
Eddie wrote: "pr" wrote in message ds.com... Katy ) wrote: It's not backwards, let me explain again: I have a feeling you are going to be doing this a lot over the next few months. at the highest setting the water effect needs DX8 compliant video hardware to turn on the bump-mapping effect, creating a sort of 3-D waves on the water surface... Hmmm.. I am pretty sure I am running DX8-complient video hardware, what with a Radeon 8700 Pro card on board, yet I do not see any special effects with the slider to the right. Perhaps this does work with the right sim or driver settings but I have not taken the time to experiment with the unlimited display permutations. Nice effect but requires tremendous resources, after looking at it a while I turned it off to keep performance even, the usual FS2002 shimmering effect of water is good enough :-) Very good. -- Peter I'm using DX9 complaint hardware! Eddie -- Brett I. Holcomb Microsoft MVP AKA Grunt Remove R777 to email |
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I'm not sure why this is happening, but the water does indeed look better
with the slider at zero. Perhaps this is because my 3D-card doesn't do DirectX 9 stuff... |
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