I think the water looks excellent. It's not a hot tropical island... ;)

I'm using a Gforce 3 64 mb, and it does look REAL. you might have your settings set wrong on your Video card.
As some settings , because they are there, doesnt mean that it will be better if you turn up everything.

BTW, that picture looks like , it is black&White, which doesnt look good at all.

As far as the reflections off the water, yea you can get some of that, and the weather outside effects how the water looks too.

I am new to this forum. Only learned of it last night (very early this morning).
I'll see about sending you all a picture on here, if you like, but not sure , if this forum can store images, or does it have to be hosted somewhere else?

AEON

GForce 3 (Xtasy TI 500) nVidia 29.42 drivers, ASUS RAMBUS MB, 512MB RAM, P4@2G = water looks the same with everything turned on.

However, after I installed patch 2 this evening, I am now getting snow on the ground in the Acadian Islands areas (area around Fort Pelagiad). Was the snow always there and I never saw it because I was trying to get better frame rates or is this a new problem?

PS: I had to remove my Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller and SMC 10/100 Ethernet card to keep the game from locking up if I moused too fast over the menus or left the menus up while I went to run errands. No more pressing F5 every 5-10 minutes and rebooting, so I can live with the snow...