This is a simple request. Please someone, give us some good looking rivers/lakes!

I have downloaded every water mod and tried them all, and they all look beautiful, close up........!!!!


This has been a problem for me since Oblivion came out and no mod has ever fixed it. The water mods look great if your stood next to the water. But stand on the bridge next to the IC, or anywhere high up for that matter, and you can see the ultra sharp reflections in the rippling water for miles... well not really miles. Maybe to the end of the water texture cell!!

You can see it up to the big line where the water texture stops, and in the comes the different colored, ultra-low quality reflections! This was addressed with the landscape with the LOD packs, but never for the water.

Im sure you know what i mean, its impossible to miss. Unfortunately dont have a screenshot to upload.

But its just a pain the distant landscape looks beautiful, but then thers a big blurry blue sheet down below. Iv heard INI tweaks can fix this but for me they dont. They just distort the water and stop it from lining up with terrain properly.

Please someone gimme a fix!! Tried AFx16 + AA etc but doesnt make any difference. Only thing missing to make Oblivion picture perfect.

Thanks alot

Mr Cooper

in my view i like it just the way it is someone people will think the same some people will not

Col John Sheppard

Likewise, I'm extremely happy with "Better Water" mod.

i will say that the makers of oblivion ( beth) was going to do a update on the water but since the game was rushed ( badly) i think they scrapped it

Col John Sheppard

Yeah im also using better water. It does look great as i said from close up. Just from far the reflections are awful (i think my resolutions 1900x1200 adds to the "bittyness" tho).

Also i think its due to 4096x4096 textures i have for landscapes (Qarls etc), they just make the water borders stick out a lot more.

You can alter the Grid size in the INI, but as i said this does cause weird glitches and doesnt improve it that much to justify them.

Yeah, plus I only use light VWD, and the 1400 widescreen option (Brain fart on that). I have an excuse tho, I'm old.


I really would like to add more animals and birds, but I'm worried it would cause lag, and basically I avoid anything that might cause lag like the plague it is.

Think animals/birds etc mainly depend on your processor. So if your games running ok i dont think a few added would destroy your game. Depends tho i suppose on your system.


Yeah i dont use any VWD, i tried the MTAEVWD, which looks INCREDIBLE. But no matter where i was my FPS was no higher than 5. lol.

But i find that strange cos it says it uses intensive V-RAM, and my brand new card has 1gig. I suppose with Qarls packs etc tho its demanding a bit too much to have 4096x4096 rocks that you can see for literally miles...... o well!

Maybe one day!