Low Resolution Water Reflections On Older ATI Video Cards

Affected X-Plane Version: 900

Affected Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux

Affected Video Cards: ATI Radeon 9500-9800, X200-X600

Description: The water reflection texture will appear to be low-resolution on these video cards, with square areas visible within the waves.

This is a hardware limitation. The listed video cards are the first-generation of ATI cards with pixel shaders, and they lack the internal precision to make the water texture perfectly smooth. Newer ATI and nVidia cards do not have this limitation.

Workaround: none.