by dave3cu » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:35 pm
A couple possibilities:
1-You can have either 'Terrain detail' or 'Water effects' maxed, but not both.
2-Your graphics card does not support it, thus FS slides it back to low.
Dave
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.