Weird Smoke

[Duncan Idaho]

Originally Posted by Wolf52

I seem to be having some trouble with smoke effects in my game. I have 6 merchant ships set up heading 180 at noon into a minefield. Now, if i look perpindicular to the bows of the ships facing west and turn to my right, the smoke effects stay. But, if i turn even one degree to my left (towards the south and the sun) the smoke disappears. The only mods i have running that would (possibly) affect this are the ail sky mod v2 and the camera mod user edition. This problem actually seemed worse when i was running the improved smoke 1.1 mod, but i have uninstalled it and it seems a bit better. Any help would be appreciated.

It's an Nvidia bug, (or a bug with how the game handles Nvidia cards). Happens for me regardless of what drivers I use.

I've had some luck with a trick: Look at the sun with smoke in view, alt-tab out and right back into the game, usually gives me smoke. Doesn't always last long though, sometimes after going into the command room, then returning to exterior view will give you the weak white smoke again.

Do you have Antialiasing enabled for your video card? If so, you may not even be getting sun glare, (if the sun is just a weird yellow/pink disk, you're not getting sun glare).

From all I've heard, there will be no further patches for this game, and Nvidia does not have this problem listed as an issue to be addressed for their video cards, so looks like we'll just have to live with it. I've decided my next vid card upgrade will be to an ATI, though. Nvidia's problems with games like Half Life 2, and this game have helped me make that choice.