birds in the rigging

[pawz]

Hello, I have just downloaded this little tool in the hope it might help me understand what to do to improve  my graphics.
Having done so, I haven't much idea of what to do next. perhaps you can help me.

To explain the problem.

I play a subsim game called Silent Hunter 3.
I run  2x nVidia 7600GTcards in SLI

Previously the game ran perfectly, but since I  reformatted, the rigging of the boats degrades to little black squares, which makes it look like there are birds sitting on it. When I first bought and ran the game I had the same trouble, but  with an extended modifications packet, which practically gives you a new game, everything has been fine, until now.

I have tried tweaking the AA and the AF, with no change. Other people running the same card(s) are not reporting these effects.
I also have the latest driver.

Can you  advise if this little tool can help me and what I should do next please?

[shadow]

Are you sure that you have reinstalled the modification packet succcessfully ? Maybe something went wrong during installation ?

[pawz]

Hello Shadow. I did not  re-install the game and mods as it was  installed on another drive, and I only reformatted C:
I have looked carefully in the folder and all seems to be as it should, and the splash screen and gameplay tell me it is the  extended form I am playing.....

[shadow]

the splash screen and gameplay tell me it is the  extended form I am playing.....

This does not mean that the game "checks" that the extended pack is installed, only that the new splash screen is installed.
I strongly suggest you to uninstall then reinstall everything ; it should be ok, then.

[pawz]

yes, done that - no improvement though. I have gone back to global settings because I noticed that there is an odd effect around the  sun when in the game - a flickering shadow crosses it briefly  now and then is the best way I can describe it. I suspect this is to do with one of the settings - there was some mention of the sun not shining properly if AA or AF, forget which, was set too high...` thanks for your help

[pawz]

sorted! The funny sun tearing effect was  fixed by  adding a mod to limit the atmosphere to 16KM, and I  then ( eventually) remembered about a handy  little utility someone else had recommended for tweaking graphics card settings, called nHancer, and that did the job proud - no more birds in the rigging ( happy sigh)