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Occasional blue water

Posted: December 28th, 2023, 12:01 am
by jahmanson
I have been playing around with settings of my graphics card and with the Voodoo 2 settings. Overall I see less "jaggies" now but in return I finding that water sometimes displays as plain sky blue colour rather than the normal reflections. This is intermittent but annoying, particularly where a large body of water is on view.

Can anyone shed some light on which setting I might have changed to cause this ? Before my changes water was displaying correctly all the time.

My graphics card is an Intel HD M4600 and I'm running under Windows 10. I am running Links 2003 at 1360 x 768 32bit resolution which is the max my monitor can handle.

Many thanks :smile:

Re: Occasional blue water

Posted: December 28th, 2023, 1:40 am
by ChuckH
A stab in the dark.In Links graphics settings, if you have the graphics slider all the way to the left you will have no reflective water.

Re: Occasional blue water

Posted: December 28th, 2023, 10:26 am
by jahmanson
Thanks but my graphics settings for Links are on the max detail. Often water shows fine but sometimes I am getting a featurless (no reflections etc) sky blue fill. It's my fault for playing with the graphics settings I guess but the jagged edges of distant bunkers etc have been improved so I am trying to find out if I can have both nice water and no "jaggies" without upgrading my monitor / graphics card :smile:

Stepping back though, it is amazing that this 20+ year old software runs at all on my laptop which dates from 2018. Without the Voodoo facility it simply would not.

Re: Occasional blue water

Posted: December 28th, 2023, 10:58 pm
by Adelade
I'd be curious to see a screenshot of how it looks.

Re: Occasional blue water

Posted: December 29th, 2023, 12:55 am
by jahmanson
I would be happy to post a screen shot. Could you remind me of the key sequence in Links 2003 to capture a screen please ?

Thanks :smile:

Re: Occasional blue water

Posted: December 29th, 2023, 3:03 am
by Adelade
Might be several ways to do it, I just use the Prt Scr key.

Re: Occasional blue water

Posted: December 29th, 2023, 5:49 am
by Ian Wells
I have to use the Ctrl + Prt Scr key.
Ian

Re: Occasional blue water

Posted: December 29th, 2023, 8:55 am
by Titus
Strg + F10