Cant See the Water.

Post by **Kennethelliot2014** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 6:57 pm

Hiya im hopeing you can help iv installed TTW alot of times and it has allways worked and iv been a while for a few months and now i decided to download a new fallout NV and install TTW but when i get out of vault 101 theres a small puddle near the door. but forsome reason i can not see it. iv been to other places with water and i can not see them. any way to fix it besides another clean install?

Post by **Kennethelliot2014** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 7:07 pm

Just been to the super duper mart near megaton and checked the river if i can see any water and nope cant see any.

Post by **Arkngt** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 7:27 pm

I got disappearing water when I tried to force Shader Model 3.0 via changing the name of a shaderpackage etc. (as in this guide).

Post by **Kennethelliot2014** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 7:40 pm

Arkngt thank you very much. you was right changeing back to 2.0 returned all my water. i used this guide https://taleoftwowastelands.com/content/ttw-performance-guide

Post by **RoyBatty** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:34 pm

You may need to use a different shader package, 17, 18 or 19 depending on your card. Seems to not like AMD cards (teehee) works fine with NVIDIA cards afaik.

Post by **Arkngt** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 12:00 am

Yes, you should have some caveat about ATI cards in the guide IMO - and also perhaps point out that you should back up the shaderpackages if trying it out. The guide seems a bit Nvidia specific BTW. How can Nvidia Inspector be "required" for instance - it's an app for Nvidia cards and doesn't even work for ATI cards as far as I know. Somehow I manage to play TTW without it anyway.

Post by **Kennethelliot2014** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 12:08 am

i dont use the inspector as i have an AMD card plus i backed up my package incase of problems like this.

Post by **RoyBatty** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:07 am

Well most of it works, and the shader stuff should too. Blame ATI for removing the ability to edit the driver profiles, you used to be able to in CCC.

Post by **Arkngt** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:02 am

Right. But "required" is really overstating it.

I'm generally skeptic to tweak and performance guides. Most come off as if they are written in stone, when lots of stuff are really of questionable value and/or even might lead to issues (such as the shader tip).

Post by **RoyBatty** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:24 pm

Most of them are indeed full of nonsense, I'll grant you that. All the stuff in his guide is known to work, and there is no placebo settings or nonsense in it. He should reword the "requirement" thing for nvidia cards and make that optional however.

The shader thing works for all cards, it's just picking the right shader package for your card. That should be made more clear, I agree.