Alternative to Water Plugin?

Hey there @AdmiralMeatball! Welcome to the community! Since Clockwork went over the alternatives, I’ll focus on possibly determining your issue. When the D3D driver removed error appears it can be a number of causes including but not limited to:

1: Older or improperly setup drivers
2: Driver settings
3: TDR timeouts
4: Overwhelming the GPU

Since 4 is not a possibility with your GPU, let’s lean toward some of the usual fixes. Take a look at this post here, some of mine (and other users) have some solid fixes and workarounds: