X3TC/AP Ship Engines occasionally reversing thrust/game lag

[alt3rn1ty]

I'm pretty sure I reported this before.

X3TC, X3AP, occasionally when using SETA (press J), the ship engines will kind of reverse thrust briefly, so that you see in first person perspective the engine thrusters appear on your screen in front of you, before the lag goes away and the engine trails revert to being behind you.

This only happens for one second, before it reverts to engine thrusters being behind you.

Did this really never get resolved ???

I would provide a DXDIag .. but I dont think its necessary, this problem has been prevalent in the last 5 laptop machines I have owned.

I am currently running XRM, so any save I can provide is modified, but even if I was not running a modified game I would still experience the same problem.

I dont have a link to any previously reported issues relating to the same problem (many years ago), but I am pretty sure I have reported the same problem before, without any resolution.

Game save = https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oAVv4Q ... sp=sharing
Currently needs XRM viewtopic.php?t=304158
Plus OK Traders viewtopic.php?t=336509
Plus SMART Turrets AP viewtopic.php?t=304686

But the same issue occurs without being modified for both X3TC & X3AP (Not sure, but probably in FL too, I dont like the changes to FL from AP so do not play it).

Choose any other sector, and a station to go to, and then press J to engage SETA. And just watch, pretty soon you should see the game pause slightly, and the engines trails (which are green due to XRM) will be briefly visible in your front view, then the game unpauses and the engine trails vanish again to being behind the ship where they belong.

Its not a bad game breaking bug, but visually its very detrimental to the experience of flying ships in TC/AP.

Kind of reluctant to post this, because it will probably need updates to mods which are long forgotten/left behind.
But amazed it never got addressed.

Edit: I know this is unlikely to get fixed, just wondering if its anything a bit of DIY could change, maybe a bit of script editing?, I'm clueless where to look.