So last night I installed GWX. Uh oh.
Now I don't think this is a problem with GWX, I think it's a problem with my machine. I think I need to wipe it and start over, it's getting about 2 years since the last wipe.
First of all, I love the new sounds! They are awesome. I love the background crew noises. I love the scream of "Alaaaarm" whem you crash dive.
But I'm having all kinds of graphics problems now, and they get worse the longer I play, until the game crashes out.
The first thing I noticed is I went up on the bridge and my Watch Officer's hat extended up into the sky, while the brim of his hat extended off into the horizon.
Then the seawater started to change color. Basically it looked as if there were pink sheets of paper floating in the ocean all around us.
Then I went into the Command Room and you could see nothing. All geometry had, it seems "exploded", and the spikes of it make it look like you were inside of a crystal or something.
Then I sighted a ship, and when you looked at it through the periscope likewise its geometry turned it into a sharp-edged chunk of triangles with a smokestack.
Then all of the other graphics started to have little glowing blue flecks all over the screen - on the crew uniforms, around control panels, etc.
Eventually, the game crashed.
I'm going to try a complete uninstall/reinstall.