Uh oh. What's going on?

[Syxx_Killer]

I just recently started playing around with SHIII again after quite a while off. I had just started the game and was enroute to DH22 from Brest. I was just a day or two out when I went topside from the map screen. I was shocked at what I saw. It was cloudy and there were lots of distortions. It was as if the wormhole and somehow exploded. I am using the atmosphere mod, but have seen clouds before with no distortions. I have not installed anything driver wise except when I installed the CCC version of the ATI Catalyst 5.10 drivers quite a while back. I took a few screenshots:



Here is an ocean view. I'm not sure how much this shot will be of any significance.



Is this a known issue with the atmosphere mod? I never played with the mod extensively, so I cannot be absolutely sure. I exited the game and reloaded a few minutes later. I saved at a point when the skies were clear. I waited until the next game day and the clouds turned overcast. I again went topside and they looked normal. This one has me worried. Please tell me it's mod related and not a screwy video card (less than a year old).

I have never experienced any graphical anomalies since I had the game (got it shortly after patch 1.2 was released).