Yes, I use the FX update. As to oil slicks, I don't recall seeing them but, then again, most of the time I'm not really looking for them. I'm usually trying to get away before Tommy's little winged friends hear of my efforts and close in on me. I'll certainly check it out more in the future.

As to the Black Smoke monster (from Lost :haha:, good one!), it will appear just about anywhere and not necessarily linked to any sinkings of mine. Of course, it could be a ship gone down due to bad weather that I didn't know of. It's an interesting idea. I think I'll cruise by one of the scenes of my larger massacres to see if there are smoke monsters present. If so, that would be spooky! Ghosts of Victims Past! :o

Interesting, yeah let me know if you do/don't, would you? I've mentioned this to TDW but he couldn't figure it out, and he has much bigger priorities now in the GR2 editor, so it'd be nice if we could get it figured out :up:

Hi Orpheus,

I think the white patches that you are seeing may be the air bubble effect.
This happens after a torp hit and during sinking:hmmm:

I always see the white bubble patches, they show up fine. What I meant when I said 'odd blobs of smoke' are black spheres that sit vertically (face on; you can see the flatness with the external cam if you're quick) off in the water in clusters, appearing for a short while then vanishing again. It's not engine smoke or damage smoke, that all works fine - which made me wonder if it was the oil slicks. It's a massive immersion killer for me (especially when i see them in your lovely screens lol), they've never shown up, even back when I started with SH5 & first came here.

I went for a full wipe & reinstall when I upgraded the GPU, hoping that would fix it, but it doesn't. Can't see what I'm doing wrong! :damn:

Ah - ok, sound like the phantom smoke thing right enough, as posted above.
I too see this many times and I think is a stock bug:hmmm:

Yeah, I've seen this myself. Quite annoying.