Blue 'water' textures where it shouldn't be.

[TheMuffinman1988]

I have a small problem where about 25% of the ground is always a blue water texture, is there a way I can fix this?

[Interkarma]

Hey there! Could you let us know your system specs please?

[TheMuffinman1988]

Hey there! Could you let us know your system specs please?

Time of this report: 5/10/2019, 19:51:54
Machine name:
Machine Id: {84DC54E5-47F9-43B1-9D9B-B7E7E43A6A33}
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 17763) (17763.rs5_release.180914-1434)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
System Model: Satellite P755
BIOS: BIOS Date: 10/30/12 12:13:27 Ver: AMI APTIO 2.80 (type: BIOS)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8098MB RAM
Page File: 8380MB used, 7909MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Not Available
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DxDiag Version: 10.00.17763.0001 64bit Unicode

[Interkarma]

Thank you for specs.

We mainly hear of the "water texture" problem with older integrated GPUs like yours (your CPU is from Sandy Bridge generation, released January 2011). The minimum requirement for Daggerfall Unity is a GTX 660 or equivalent, which is also very old as a 2012 card.

I believe some of the newer integrated CPUs (e.g. Coffee Lake) seem to do OK compatibility wise, but a discrete nVidia/AMD GPU is still desirable for performance reasons.

It's possible someone might contribute a new terrain shader targeting this older hardware someday, although it's getting less likely each year as most of this hardware is close to a decade old and ageing out of life.