Note: Water currently works on DirectX 10 cards (GeForce 8 series, Radeon HD 2000 series and higher) through vendor extensions on DirectX 9.
Note2: Enabling this CVar with an old graphics driver causes the game screen to go black

This CVar enables water reflection added in Cataclysm.

Default Setting

0

Possible Settings

0

Old water (wrath and previous)

1

Screen Space reflection

2

Dynamic reflection

Changing this setting

In-game, type the following

/console waterdetail setting

Alternatively, you can exit wow, open the Config.wtf file, and add the following line:

SET waterdetail setting

Patches

• Patch 4.0.3 (15-Nov-2010): Added 
  

References