Water Does Display Correctly While playing indoor levels! | Forums

[Mist17]

The Water playing on indoor level flickers and does not display correct.
It goes a doty blue, grey. HELP!!!!!!

Can some one help plz
pc:
intel 2.4Ghz
512mb RAM
ASUS ATI 9250 256mb

[Mist17]

The Water playing on indoor level flickers and does not display correct.
It goes a doty blue, grey. HELP!!!!!!

Can some one help plz
pc:
intel 2.4Ghz
512mb RAM
ASUS ATI 9250 256mb

[Mist17]

Help PLz!

[aravn4u]

try setting it at Medium see if that helps

[fabulouscoops]

Do you have the 1.3 patch?

[Mist17]

The Water Seting is at medium and i am patched up to 1.32.

[Probe316]

Its probley mainly because you do not have a DirectX9 video card...

[Mist17]

But runs all other Dx 9 Like Doom 3, Half-life 2, Rid**** Perfectly thoe.

[H8Ball (PC Engineer)]

Far Cry requires DirectX9 and, ideally, your video card should have full DirectX9 "hardware support", i.e. the card's hardware should be capable of DIRECTLY handling DirectX9-specific rendering features.

Unfortunately, the Radeon 9250's only have DirectX8.1 hardware support. Even when you have DirectX9 installed, the lack of DirectX9 hardware support means that your DirectX9 games have to fall back to using a "software path" to "emulate" the missing DirectX9-specific hardware features. This is EXTREMELY slow (causing VERY low framerates), and prone to graphical glitches.

I believe the water surface shaders used in Far Cry are DirectX9-specific, so Far Cry is having to "emulate" them on your DirectX8.1 hardware. Different shaders are used for indoor and outdoor water surfaces. Although the outdoor water shader might work OK, the indoor water shader may be enountering problems (due to emulation), hence indoor water not "looking right".

Some games are better than others at emulating DirectX9 features, which would explain why your other games (Doom 3, Rid****, etc) "look" OK.

I'd recommend upgrading your video card to one that DOES have full DirectX9 hardware support. This will improve the DirectX9 rendering performance (higher framerates) and also allow you to set Water Quality to High or better, which looks FANTASTIC!

Hope this helps.

[Mist17]

OK thx for that H8Ball (PC Engineer)thats i might upgrade now hehe.