quick random questions

[tomoose]

1 - on the depth meter - what does the red needle represent?

one is for periscope depth indication and the other deeper one is supposed to be your max (crush) depth although many have gone beyond that and survived.

2 - on the heading guage - i can barely see the intended heading needle - any way to enhance that?3 - when I use the dial manually to set the distance to target, the numbers on the dial are SO small! Any way to enlarge them?

I believe there's a mod out there that enhances the dials etc. You'll have to do a search.

4 - on the nav-map - when I alter my course but preserve my set course, there is no indication of my current 'vector', (no heading or wake marker). Any way to get one?

I'm not sure if there's a mod for getting around this. If you zoom all the way in you will see your sub's direction. What I usually do is use the map tool compass and draw an indicator for my direction then zoom back out.

5 - when feeding the TDC data - I send the distance to target, angle on the bow, and speed of target - got that. How do I send the 'bearing' of the target? Is it based on the direction of the periscope or when I 'lock' the periscope?

Bearing is indicated by the scope but I'm not exactly sure how the bearing actually gets into the TDC. My guess would be that whatever the bearing of the scope is when you click on the red TDC 'enter' button is the bearing used. An easy way to test that would be to point the scope in a completely arbitrary direction and hit the red TDC button and see if the PK reacts or not. The 'lock' AFAIK doesn't do anything to the TDC it simply keeps your view on the target.

6- my graphics are not bad during the day but I get all kinds of purple blotches at night. Withing going all Nvidia on ya, does anyone have general settings advice on this?

Haven't experienced this myself (I use an nVidia GeForce AGP card with no probs) but I'm sure someone will have some info on this. Have you updated your graphic drivers?