Bad Water

[Gary1954]

I've got this jagged line off the horizon showing two water textures. The foreground is Real Environment Pro (I like!). I tried decreasing visibility in user-defined weather, but to have to do this evey time I load FS! Besides, at altitude the line comes back. I tried other water packs, but want to stay with REP. Any help or ideas? Please & Thank you!

[garymbuska]

Well it would help if you give some system specs here as the reply will differ depending upon your systems ablity. Without knowing your system specs it is hard to tell you what to set.
As to how to keep from having to change the settings every time you start fs what you want to do is to set up everything the way you want FS to start. Location plane type Hot or cold panel the type of weather
and anything else you can think of then save the flight and make it the default flight then when you crank up fs everything will be set the way you want it to. 8-)

[kilotango]

Right Garymbuska, and this seems to me like a poor memory sets to some specs textures. If our freind have to change settings everytime he load the sim, it must be a hw conflict.
I would like to see Gary1954's sys too, and i would like to know if Gary1954 had installed some new hw resently.
Then i hope we can help.

[Gary1954]

Hi Guys, Appreciate your time. No new HW recently installed, but, maybe these sys specs will help you point me in a direcetion.

Motherboard:
     CPU Type                                          Intel Pentium IIIE, 700 MHz (7 x 100)
     Motherboard Name                              

[born_2_fly]

Your GPU looks like the problem there. It's not nearly powerful enough to run FS with medium-high settings, and so it's being bottlenecked trying to render the water textures in the distance.

The only way to really fix the problem would to get an entirely new Graphics card, although your whole system could do with being upgraded.  ::)

[kilotango]

I am allways saying things right out in the open.
And to be frankly, your cpu, along with the ram, has to much work to do. Therefore you're getting those strange looks.
Have you tried to minimize the settings in the game, and with your video card, don't set the AA higher than 4+.
Dont thouch AA in the game, set it on the card.
Along with the cpu and your ram, the video card is having a blood cirkulation that will kill anything.

[ashaman]

People, people, people, people, please.

No matter how powerful your PC might be, there's no cure against shoddy coding.

The problem depicted exists in EVERY FS9 ever existed and that will ever exists. Please thank the coders for their great work.

Only solution is to BUY FSUIPC and define inside there a lesser visibility field.

Oh, by the way, remember to thank M$ for their great work.


PS
I'm not joking. The problem depicted has ALWAYS existed and NO solution has EVER been found, beside make the visibility field smaller... but only PAYING for another software.

Thank you M$

[Gary1954]

Ashaman, Thank you. You've saved my old Gateway from an early demise. And Guys, I've been wanting a new system for a while. (Actually, when I discovered the world of FS!) That's moved way up my want list, so thanks for the motivating kick in the PC.

[swordfish1227]

that is completely normal. the same thing happens over land but it is harder to notice. if you press ctrl+s and go into the top down mode, zoom out a few times and look at the cross shaped area that is detail around your plane. you can thank uncle bill and his minions for that one

[Gary1954]

Swordfish1227, You're right. I see it. Thanks