FS2004 water sim is drowning me

[kiwicomm]

Hi all
I'm continuing my refresh of FS 2004, and in doing so purchased Zinertek's Ultimate Water. It works great in Realistic mode (haven't tried Photorealistic mode), but with one caveat: it refreshes itself every 4 seconds or so, with the result that the waves blur in and out, over and over. Kind of like me at a work staff meeting. Is there a fix for this? I trawled the net but haven't found any solutions. Apparently Photorealistic is worse, but the net really hasn't offered a solution other than the problem. One clue that might help is that I also have the problem of 'square waves', waves washing up on a beach that are an attempt at wave simulations but appear as rectangular boxes. Are these problems connected? Is there a way to turn off animations? Any help appreciated.

[Ian Warren]

I do have FS9 installed , Ive to try a good water package, I ll have a look tomorrow at the different options , little busy at the mo , not going to go payware for a water package tho.

[AlisterC]

Sorry, for my part, no fix for this has ever been mentioned in the forums I follow. (or I would have fixed it too)
It was probably cutting edge programming at the time of release, but it's an old game now..

[Charl]

Doesn't photoreal freeze the motion? I seem to recall it does.
I'm so used to the pulsing as a way to "explain" wave motion, that it doesn't fuss me at all.
FS9 does require a bit of altitude, true... I found this clip I made when I installed TrackIR, and it makes mention of Zinertek.
Watch in large player HD, this is as good as it gets in FS9.



As to the square waves? Default coastlines give you stock MS wave action which is not all that great.
All my FS9 flying is done with photoreal or custom sceneries, which removes the stock wave effects. Recommended.

[kiwicomm]

QUOTE (AlisterC @ Aug 17 2014,8:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sorry, for my part, no fix for this has ever been mentioned in the forums I follow. (or I would have fixed it too)
It was probably cutting edge programming at the time of release, but it's an old game now..

Thanks for the responses. I'll try to reinstall using Realistic mode. One peripheral question: I think I see an ATR in new livery in your post. There was some traffic about this that led me to flightsim for this livery but I didn't think it would work with the Flight 1 ATR for FS2004, instead some other model. Is there one for Flight 1's model? Thx.

[AlisterC]

(I'm no help again lol)
That ATR in my signature is the ISDT freeware model

[kiwicomm]

I think I've found the solution: 1. Uninstall Zinertek water (I might be inclined to reinstall it if I want to take some photos only with waves 'frozen', otherwise its 'pulse rate' is just too high, random from all angles, and distracting). 2. Install freeware by a fellow called Andreas Meyer that I got from flighsim.com: wtrtxtrs. He has his own website too. It seems to work well and the appearance of water alone or with REX looks good. It still shows pulsing' in FS 2004 but has somehow overcome the directional randomness of the pulsing so that the waves simply refresh themselves every few seconds, but with the same orientation. That's fine with me. Thx all for the advice.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (kiwicomm @ Aug 18 2014,12:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I think I've found the solution: 1. Uninstall Zinertek water (I might be inclined to reinstall it if I want to take some photos only with waves 'frozen', otherwise its 'pulse rate' is just too high, random from all angles, and distracting). 2. Install freeware by a fellow called Andreas Meyer that I got from flighsim.com: wtrtxtrs. He has his own website too. It seems to work well and the appearance of water alone or with REX looks good. It still shows pulsing' in FS 2004 but has somehow overcome the directional randomness of the pulsing so that the waves simply refresh themselves every few seconds, but with the same orientation. That's fine with me. Thx all for the advice.

I know off Andreas Meyer very well, got a Phantom from his site ... VERY disappointed, on question he - then replied about how to paint and create texture templates, maybe his work was better for the FS9 format. I think I was teaching the guy in the end and with no result.