I just installed a XFX HD 5670 1gb GDDR5. It's working Great. FPS are 30+

Now I can run thur the boat.

I have this happen sometimes when I alt-tab and when i switch to different screens. Like nav map to periscope, visa versa. However it is very fast and has never bothered me.

Shadow = 0
AA = Full
Everything else at max setting, Nvidia 9500, newest driver.
I don't know if this can help.

I have this problem also. In my events log I receive this message each time it fades out:

"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

I'm using an 8800gtx with 196.21 drivers in win7 x64.

Im running a Geforce 9600GT, and those 196.21 drivers made it go bonkers and had similar results as you have described. In fact those drivers suffered a total failure yesterday and my graphics card just failed too while playing SH5 and was quite an event.
Then had to try to restart my system and it wouldnt, and got a blue screen and message saying a driver has gone into an "Infinite loop".

The only way I've gotten my card to behave was to go back to the 196.75 drivers it had before going to those 196.21 because of the warning about reports of fan speeds causing overheats with 196.75.
But my card just wouldnt have it, and as I said went bonkers.
Luckily I found the 196.75 drivers still stored on my drive.
All is back to normal now.

I personally think the overheats reported are BS, and were due to something else. And that Nvidia will probably have them back up on the site once they test this out and find nothing wrong with them.
They are working fine on my system, and things only went wrong when I installed the 196.21 drivers.
Even my display properties when trying to open the advanced window which is is the Nvidia Nview, couldnt do so and displayed a message saying there was a driver mismatch.

Check that it isn't forced in the profile; it overrides the global setting.

For everyone; I strongly suggest ditching the 195/196 releases. Go back to 191 untill they fix that mess (broken overclocking, then broken fan control, just to name the 2 most recent screwups). Maybe stick with 195, just ditch 196.

Ohhhh no not me, back nuthin, I aint going through what just did for 24hrs and my system totally screwed up.:nope:
It's all working fine, and I have SH5's settings all maxed out and cranking out some beautiful and stunning stuff. And running smooth as a baby's behind.:rock:

OK, but the people having trouble could still try it. :lol:

Btw, if anyone uninstalls their driver, I suggest booting into safe mode right after and using Driver Sweeper to clean out the garbage that gets left behind. Might resolve a few issues as well. ;)

If at some point you had a Radeon and switched to Nvidia, might want to use that to check if there's anything left behind from those drivers as well.

And of course disable integrated graphics in BIOS, and uninstall + clean any drivers for that, if you're using an add-in card. (not strictly nescesary, but for the sake of troubleshooting)

System maintenance 101. :D

Try upgrading your operating system... no offense, but vista 32 bits is outdated and pretty much a really poor operating system.

Windows 7 would offer you newer/better suited drivers in almost every compartement, and increase your computers performance.

Best part is that it takes only about 20 minutes to install and 10 minutes to adjust for personal flavour.


PS. sounds like a windows 7 commercial, but I assure you that I am a carpenter from Norway and not a microsoft salesman...

Does it only happen with SH5, cause most of the time screen flicker means your monitor is dying out not the graphics card. Hook up monitor to another pc if you can and if she still has the problem then at least you know its the monitor.

for those of you that missed it.

this problem (for me at least) was soundly and swiftly defeated a couple of days back.

thanks for all the help.:yeah:

Glad I could help out.:up: I had similar issues with SH3 and have to put up with jaggies as it doesn't let you set AA within the application. Still better than not being able to play anything at all.

i'm also having this issue, I can't get rid of it. I tried various drivers and turned AA off, I also check my GC temp , it was ok. So what sould I do ?

First, update to the latest Direct X drivers.
Always even under XP use the Direct 10 or above installer, since it also contains Direct 9c and a version more recent than the one installed with the separate DirectX 9c installer.

Then, use default graphic settings first.
If no change, go back one or two drivers and check again.

If no change, put back latest driver and try tweaking graphic settings from the driver. Enforce them : turn Anti Aliasing off, and Anisotropic off. Change settings one by one until you find.

weird , I've increased my graphic setting (low to med) and it's now working fine

Yeah probably when you moved from low to medium, it turned some shadows on.

I fixed this problem on my PC by turning shadows to medium or high, turning them off makes the problem come back! Weird but it works!

Solution
 

If you are using NVidia graphic card do the following:

Right click on desktop and select NVidia Control Panel / 3D options / use second tab on the right and browse for Silent Hunter 5 exe file.
Below you will find settings for SH5, set all Anti Alising to OFF.

The issue with Black Screen should dissapear, althoug I have noticed that if you are near high number of models and objects (at harour) the game crashes into black screen anyway. So I prefer to leave the docks with the map view.

Unfortunatelly I don`t have solution for ATI users, but I think it should be pretty the same, if someone with ATI can check this, it would be really good.


Fanatic SH Pole in UBIs dark hole...
and there came the modders , repaired the atlantic waters,
I finally was able to play, and hunt the Uboot pray.

I've never had this black screen issue with my ATI 4870x2.