Shakey waves

[brockb]

I have seen posts with solutions to this problem, but I have yet to find a working one.

When I move the camera around, the waves seem to stop in place and jitter.

I can't imagine it's doing any good for performance and it's ugly as hell.

Could someone tell me exactly what to do to fix this?

Thanks.

-B.

[Hylander_1314]

If you are talking about the anomoly after dropping out from time compression, there's only one fix to this, don't use time compression. The modders have tried to address this issue, but have not found a cure all yet.

Sometimes the work arounds work, sometimes they don't is what I found myself. I've even had it work where you go back to time compression, up to 64 or 128, and the gradually back out of it to 1, but again, it's hit and miss.

[-Pv-]

For me, TC or not, it's more related to the water being nearly calm or calm. The game coders didn't compensate very well for the timing difference between when the waves have to rise and fall great distances and when they only have to rise an inch or two. They do that at the same rate, thus you get the popcorn motion because it only takes a moment to rise an inch. If you don't send a lot of time staring at the water closest to your boat, you can tell yourself it's not there. Or, you can wish for rougher water where the rise and fall rate looks more natural. No fixes, no mods which solve this without creating other game problems. It's in the code.
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[brockb]

It happens when I first enter the game.

The water looks fine when the camera is still, but when you start moving around, the water goes crazy.

[Hylander_1314]

Sorry, I don't get the same occurance when first starting the game.

[wetwarev7]

It happens when I first enter the game.

The water looks fine when the camera is still, but when you start moving around, the water goes crazy.

I used to get this till I started turning off my antivirus program before starting up SH4. I don't get that anymore. :up:

[badaboom]

It happens when I first enter the game.

The water looks fine when the camera is still, but when you start moving around, the water goes crazy.

I used to get this till I started turning off my antivirus program before starting up SH4. I don't get that anymore. :up:


Fantastic!!!!!!! This finaly cured my problem!!!!!!!:rock: The game is a thing of Beauty now.

Thank You:D

[-Pv-]

I don't run an anit-virus program and run a clean system. I have a $500 graphics card and a fast duel core. I still get the jello waves at times. This is just to say if you have these coming back under the right conditions, don't be surprised.
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[homerdog]

I have this exact same problem. Whenever I pan the camera left and right the waves shimmer like crazy, and when I pan up and down the waves start moving really fast, like time compression is revving up or something.

I'm running Vista 64 with SP1 and I have no antivirus software installed. These are my specs:
-Gigabyte P35 DS3L
-Core 2 Duo E6750
-512MB 8800GT (175.19 WHQL driver)
-4GB DDR2-800
-Onboard Realtek ALC888

I have the latest DX10 runtime (June I think). Oh and I have the Steam version if that matters.

I've been wanting to try this game, it seems like something I'll like, but this bug absolutely kills the experience :down:.

I'd appreciate any help I can get.

[-Pv-]

I've seen this subject discussed since the game came out. If there were a silver bullet, it's not been prooven.

Do a search on this forum if you're desparate, but you'll see a lot of discussion that went nowhere.

I still insist is a "feature" of the game when looking at the water very close to the boat when it's calm or nearly calm and the wave height is very low.

The solution I use is not to sit there and stare at it but go sink stuff. Can't see the problem through the scopes while tracking a ship.
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[homerdog]

Thanks for the reply mate. So you think it happens to everybody and folks just deal with it? I'm not ruling that out but the above posters seem to have fixed the issue on their systems which leads me to believe otherwise. I mean it's REALLY distracting, I don't see how people could play like this...

Anyway I've scoured these and other forums and like you said, lots of talk about it but no real solutions. I would try disabling my anti-virus software like the guys did above, but I have no anti-virus software...:damn: