It's a stock bug. It's because the normal map (the fine detail) for the waves isn't matched up to the wave geometry, so the fine details slides accross the coarse detail if the camera is moving. Going sideways is fine, forwards/backwards (up down if the camera is moving) isn't. I don't know of any fix. If you haven't noticed this - for God's sake don't look for it, because once you've seen it, you can't un-notice it!

I remember that darn flashing being a nasty bug. Greaty reduced by some mods. The shakey water like we have here, yes I get it. But not all the time. Toying with TC helps if I recall. I had thought the camera moving reduced or increased this happening. You are right though, forget about it or you will focus all your time attempting to fix it or playing only to sit there looking at this water shake!


SH4 is a great game. The mods make it so much better. What SH4 could have been if the developers had 6 more months with it! :hmmm:

i hear ya, no point of paying any extra attention to it if there isn't any way to fix it. I didn't actually notice it at first, but after I did that's all I've been thinking about when playing the game. But not anymore, I hope. I will play around a bit with time compression and see if it has any effect.

Thanks for everybody helping me out with this, now gotta go and sink some ships. Or trying to learn to do so :salute:

Leovampire (rip) found the jelly water mostly appeared when you came out of (higher) TC. His tip was to use backspace (TC=1) and then press "-" to pause game for some seconds. That should enable the graphics engine to have a breather and thereby reduce/eliminate the jelly motion.

Personally haven't seen it in ages :hmmm: - using TMO 1.9 here btw.

Doe's resetting the screen in game work...Be at a cam screen so you can see the water and hit Control-N...keeping in mind it resets the weather.

Are you near a port, as I see a tanker...That can happen a lot near port with lots of contacts, morese your docking base.

Try to head for open sea and hit cntl N. Overall it shouldn't happen much once you get out to sea, usually when that happens to me, it's the other ships and not me, but was they get in my range it's normal...gets bad I just reset the screen...being very careful for what weather effects I change.

I run a 295 and crank up the video card settings and it happens more, cut them back a tad, NP. Alt Tab out a lot can also cause it.

I went and did a quick test. Coming out of high TC I get the water shimmy deal but not for long and I suspect the volumetric fog creates some of the issue as well. I'm running TMO only.