How do you enable high quality water?

[theotherguy]

I have a 9800 pro and the game decied that I should have medium settings..but my framerate is pretty high and I want to enable reflective water (right now mine is ugly and opaque) how might I do this? And also, 9800 pro's don't support HDR?

 

[Lemonking]

thats a dx 9c feature I think

 

[Dog--]

Can't you just go to video options and set water detail from normal to high?

 

[Lemonking]

yiu can try, but I dunno If that will work.

 

[theotherguy]

um...the only thing in video options is resolution and LOD distance.

 

[Qonfused]

um...the only thing in video options is resolution and LOD distance.

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[Roland Deschain]

The water, I'm pretty sure, does not reflect trees and objects, no matter how high you set the quality. It does reflect buildings I think. Basically, the went overboard with the beautiful scenery and unfortunatly it was impossible for them to render it twice and still keep a decent framerate. I'm pretty sure that there's a console command that will allow full reflection but don't expect your 9800 to handle it.

 

[DrDevin]

Enable it in the options menu and then for completely reflective water go into your mydocuments folder -> mygames -> oblivion and open the oblivion.ini file and change these setting (under the water section) to:

bUseWaterReflectionsMisc=1
bUseWaterReflectionsStatics=1
bUseWaterReflectionsTrees=1
bUseWaterReflectionsActors=1
bUseWaterReflections=1

 

[Roland Deschain]

Enable it in the options menu and then for completely reflective water go into your mydocuments folder -> mygames -> oblivion and open the oblivion.ini file and change these setting (under the water section) to:

bUseWaterReflectionsMisc=1
bUseWaterReflectionsStatics=1
bUseWaterReflectionsTrees=1
bUseWaterReflectionsActors=1
bUseWaterReflections=1

Nice, how does that affect the frame rate though?

 

[theotherguy]

oops, forgot to scroll down