Water has become transparent - any ideas?

[Jas Clarence]

Suddenly water in all sims has a see through look which means I can see the bases of island etc. It never looked like this before and looks normal in Phoenix. Any ideas?

[Claireschen Hesten]

you might like to change your water windlight setting to default if it is not already i got afflicted with transparent water on firestorm after playing around with all the the new fancy graphics settings i looked at the quick prefs and noticed i'd somehow got some water windlight activated and changing back to default fixed it for me

[Ry0ta Exonar]

If you were playing with advanced menu, you might have accidentally unchecked "rendering water" .

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Advanced_menu

 

[Jas Clarence]

Water windlight? Where do i find that? Thanks

 

[Jas Clarence]

Checked that it looks ok - thanks

[Theresa Tennyson]

I'm willing to bet you've got an ATI video card/chipset.

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your video chipset and if the problem is still there then go into SL Preferences - Graphics and hit the "Hardware" button. Uncheck the box that says "OpenGL VBO's"

With 3.2.4, Linden Labs completely re-wrote the part of the viewer that communicates with the video card to get used to the old, outdated video calls that had been causing problems with new video cards, especially Nvidia ones. The changes can cause problems with ATI cards now though.

[Jas Clarence]

hi - yes I do have an ATI card - I have tried both of your suggestions and nothing has changed Thanks

[Jas Clarence]

Thanks I tried the driver update again - it worked!! Thanks so much