Really annoying issue with water.

[scuba]

Hello all.

I apologize in advance for the wall of text that is about to occur.

I just recently found out about this series, and being a simulation fan, I have no idea how it eluded me for this long. I decided to get SH3 because I am a big fan of the setting.

ANYWAY,

So I do all the research, find out about all the supermods available, find out that GWX 3.0 is teh 1337, and download it. I get it all set up alongside SH3 commander, making sure to download the extra config files that make it compatible, stumble blindly through making a new commander, etc, and load up the game. I instantly fall in love. One problem though. The ocean is flickering different colors when I look at it from certain angles. Whether on bridge cam or free cam, no matter what, if i stare at the ocean at particular angles, it goes bright gold, then i move the camera a bit, it goes to dark black, then to dark dark blue, and so on. It completely breaks my immersion. I made sure to check gameplay videos on youtube to see if this is just a glitch in the game that is unavoidable, but I haven't seen anything like it in any video I watched.

So I find the lovely forums here at Subsim, and after trolling through endless pages of forums I have not found one reference to this problem, and even a google search came up blank. I tried doing a fresh install without gwx or sh3 commander, and even a vanilla sh3 is still giving me the flickery water. Ive also tried tooling about with my graphic card settings, particularly anti-aliasing, and still no luck. Ive tried changing resolution and even using a completely different modded water texture, and the same problem is still occuring. I LOVE this game so much but this problem is just killing it for me.

Call me a perfectionist, I guess, but I'd really like to figure this out. My system settings are WELL over what is required for this game, so I know that that can't be it.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers and thanks in advance!