FSX Water Effects

[ardypilot]

Just had to reinstall FSX and am wondering how to make my water look less sparkly?
The above screenshot is from my old install, with the water effects how I want them, and the below screenshot is how it looks now- too fake for my liking.






I don't want to meddle with the ingame settings and risk loosing all the alterations I've already made in the fsx.cfg file- but can only find one variable inside the .cfg with the word water in it. When I change it between WATER_EFFECTS=6 and WATER_EFFECTS=5 it doesn't seem to make any difference...
Does anyone know what to do?

[Ian Warren]

Curious , with affects package do you have Andy , REX /ActiveX .. ? there are water texture settings in the those package and course the just recent ORBX-Global has some affect as well .

[jeansy]

if your after a different wave effect try this freeware utility that is more flexible than rex, fex etc etc

http://www.strikingsoftware.com/fswc.shtml

[Ian Warren]

Thanks for that link Matt , I have to give that a try as well .

[ardypilot]

Ah didn't realise it was a REX setting.
When I reloaded FSX, I re downloaded my user account settings from the REX server, but didn't reload my texture preference set. All sorted now cheers!