[Fireskull]

I did notice that the DirectX segment of the list seems to be missing: water=. Is there any particular reason for this omission?

That's because DirectX does not support Perfect Landscape mode, which is where you get the realistic (Perfect) water. If you want Perfect Landscape, and realistic water, you have to run the game in OpenGL.

Please help me here guys, cause I am confused about something. In another website, I read that a guy can only get decent graphics-especially 3D motion-if NVIDIA Geforce cards render DirectX commands. When I ran the sim in OpenGL and adjusted the water to perfect, then I saw nice "perfect" water. It really does look like water. However, performance was poor and some texture features did not appear that do render in DirectX, even after tweeking conf.ini and adjusting the NIVDIA controls. I'll re-read this Topic and retrack my efforts. Perhaps I am missing some important detail. Yes, I did go to setup in IL-2 and switched to OpenGL. These experiments are being done on my offline modding copy so I don't mess the online playing. Can someone give me a definative answer as to which one is better for both image and performance: DirectX or OpenGL? Thank you guys ahead of time.

[Edition:] P.S. My Go 7150M does not have any Antialiasing overide. Does anyone know if getting the 8000 or 9000 series drivers installed would be compatible with my 7170 ?