[Maven]

I've always had really dark water, graphics and GUI ever since I installed PF. Back when I had IL2+FB+AEP the graphics were a lot brighter. I've always had a nVidia geforce card (6600 and up). I was looking at the water settings today for the Okinawa map in the following file:

\maps\okinawa\load.ini

[WATER]
Water = water/PacificWater.tga
WaterColorATI = 0.140 0.175 0.230 //WaterColorATI
WaterColorNV = 0.140 0.185 0.268 //WaterColorNV

I thought yea I found a possible solution, so I changed the WaterColorNV to 0 0 0 to see if it would darken the water (since I have a nVidia card). Flew a QMB in Okinawa and no change. Then I restored the WaterColorNV settings and set WaterColorATI to 0 0 0. Sure enough, when I ran the QMB again the water was really dark. Well this is really disturbing, because I don't know what tells IL2 whether to use ATI or nVidia.

I've done everything I know to do:

1) changed the VideoSetupId to 17, then back to 3, 4, then 5 then back to 3.

0 - Safe Settings
1 - Default Settings
2 - Maximum Settings
3 - NVidia GeForce 6800/6600/FX/4/3
4 - NVidia GeForce 5200..5900 - 1.x Shaders
5 - NVidia GeForce 4MX
6 - NVidia GeForce 2 GTS/MX/256
7 - NVidia Riva TNT2
8 - ATI Radeon X800/9800/9700/9600/9500
9 - ATI Radeon 8500/9000
10 - ATI Radeon
11 - Intel 915/925 (GMA900)
12 - Kyro II
13 - Matrox G400
14 - 3dfx Voodoo 3
15 - 3dfx Voodoo 5
16 - S3 Savage 4
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