Holy smoke!

[GoDeep]

Upon electing a new pope, it is tradition for the cardinals to pass white smoke through the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, so the crowd outside will know a decision was made. World War 2 era ships however, have no such tradition and certainly do not emit white smoke on any occasion that I am aware of.

However, mine do, in SH3 that is. See for yourself:


I am given to understand that this white smoke has something to do with Nvidia cards and/or drivers. In order to resolve this problem, I have been fiddling with antialiasing settings, anisotropic filtering, etc. Neither of those improves or makes worse the condition. I have researched this problem online and also here on the forum but all I have found are people with the same problem but nothing that points me to a solution, other than buying myself an ATI card.

The card is an Nvidia 8600 GT with 256MB RAM, which should be sufficient for a game like SH3, even with GWX installed. My driver version is 280.13.

I'd be grateful for any suggestion that helps improve things because I don't want a new pope elected, I want my burning ships billowing black smoke.