Driver recovery black screen

[stalintc]

Hi all,

I have been diagnosing the issue I have with the game where, when I am inside the submarine or in port, the screen goes black for 3 seconds or more and then comes back.

Looking into my event viewer I can see that the graphics driver is recovering, likely a TDR error....

I have tried many things to solve the issue:

(Windows 7 x64, 8800GTX 768mb)
- Driver clean and rollback
- Cross check card temperatures and voltages
- Minimum settings
- Compatibility modes
- nHancer settings for the graphics card
- CPU core affinity fixes mentioned here
- Update directx and all system drivers

However, what baffles me is that there is one setting within Silent Hunter 5 that stops the problem from occuring for me...

It is of all things the shadows slider. When I first got the game I put shadows on the lowest possible setting, ever since that I have suffered the above issue. I decided to ramp up all my settings in a last ditch attempt to resolve this issue, the shadows being one of those first settings.

Putting the shadow slider to full has stopped the issue with the black screen, I get super low FPS in the radio room and docks, but it doesnt crash and there are no screen atrifacts.. ill take low FPS over crashing any day

Some of you getting the same issue as me, may want to give this rather strange workaround a try?

Just thought I would share.

Happy hunting