My water textures are not loading

[WhoUCallingRebel]

I just started fallout 76 after not playing for over 3 months and now my water textures don't exist and I've already tried reinstalling and checking my files. Does anyone have a fix for this or am I screwed?

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Have you tried changing the water quality to low in the game settings? I seem to recall that players who had this issues setting to low could fix it in some cases.

Are you using an AMD graphics card?

[WhoUCallingRebel]

I'm using a 2070 invida graphics card and I have tried that but still no matter what the water wont appear.

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Setting it to high might fix it

[WhoUCallingRebel]

I've tried that but I guess I could try that again

[KillaCyst]

Did you every get this fixed

[Krumbleskin]

2022 thread

[WhoUCallingRebel]

I was never able to fix this issue I ended up getting a new computer a year later and its not an issue on this pc but it still comes up on the other, I wish I had a answer or a fix but I don't.

[insert food here]

Originally posted by WhoUCallingRebel:

I was never able to fix this issue I ended up getting a new computer a year later and its not an issue on this pc but it still comes up on the other, I wish I had a answer or a fix but I don't.

Several things to try to fix the water textures not showing up.

1) Verify your game files through Steam. Right click on Fallout 76 in your Steam games list on the left side. Click properties, then installed files and then verify integrity of game files. Let it finish and see if it does anything.

2) Go into your game and try setting the water quality setting to low. For whatever reason (probably GPU drivers) some PCs will show invisible water if water quality is set to medium or high.

3) If still no luck in fixing it. Go to Documents/My games/Fallout 76

Open the file Fallout76Prefs in notepad. Right near the top look for the line

fDirShadowDistance=60000.0000

Mine is set to 90000.0000. Yours will likely look different. Try changing it back to the default setting of 60000.0000.

Save the file and see if it has fixed it. You can probably go back to med or high quality water with this shadow distance reset to the default setting now. Depends on your PC and if it can run well with all these settings.

Just changing the shadow distance to low and water quality to low has fixed the water textures not showing up for me on older PCs where i was trying to get a bit more FPS in the past.

[Rogue]

Lol this is funny, because I turned them off, the game is so much better without them for me.