No water effects?

[Zaphod]

I've only just realised, after visiting a friend who also uses FS2002, that I have no water effects! I get a few waves lapping against the shore, and my floatplanes leave a wake when moving on water, but I have no waves or movement. I've checked all my settings as per the fs2002 readme file and all is ok. I am using a 3.06 Ghz processor with 512 DDR ram and a Dforce4 MX440SE 128mb video card.
Any help appreciated.

[ozzy72]

Add the following lines to your diplay.cfg file at the end of the GeForce 2 section:

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
[000010DE:00000171]
DriverValidate2=1

And Bob is your mothers brother.

Ozzy

[Zaphod]

Outstanding..
Sorted it out straight away. Many thanks from my floatplanes and I.
Just one thing. I used Notepad to edit the cfg. file and now all the cfg files have a notepad icon and have lost there file extensions. I assume this is normal as all is working well?

Many thanks again Ozzy.

[ozzy72]

No worries Zaphod, 42 and all that
As for the files, they are just a text file, so no worries there, but for simplification I always save them as .cfg just so I don't mess anything up.

Ozzy (a man who knows where his towel is )

[Zaphod]

And also what to do with a Pangalacticgargleblaster?
Nice one Ozzy.
Thanks again.

[ozzy72]

Oddly enough I'm drinking one right now
Oddly enough it does feel like I'm having my brains smashed out by a large gold brick wrapped in a slice of lemon

Ozzy

[PH_AJH]

Hi Ozzy
Just curious - what does the line you mentioned do? I ask because I have a GeForce MX440 as well (but no graphic problems that I'm aware of).

Thanks
AJ

[ozzy72]

It enables some of the effects you would otherwise not see. There is some problem with the MX4xx series, and you need to add these. I don't really understand graphics cards, but I do know this fix of old

Ozzy