TY Berbster you and Vecko and many others here are always helpful
By "Stock TWoS" I mean only TwoS ver 2.2.9, no other added mods. I have chimney smoke, Ship ID, and one of the ship sinking effects added through JSGME, nothing else. The game has ran perfectly for almost two years on my machine with only minor issues usually resolved with restart, or minor tweak. I have an HP "Beats" laptop on which I play SH5. Graphics from their site: AMD Radeon HD 8510G graphics with up to 4224MB total graphics memory"
I can run the game with decent framerate well as long as I dont enable "shadows" My GPU is set up per your post on AMD graphics for SH5. Due to the amount of time I have ran the game without issue I am inclined to think this is some type of bug, or game file corruption. Have you ever seen this issue before?
BTW I really wish I could post a screenshot, me and you discussed this issue back over a year ago and eventually determined that my screenshots were corrupted likely due to enabling the "DPI" setting in admin settings. Other than not being able to take screenshots, the game has really been surprisingly stable. TY for your time and energy,
-Wayne U-203 Lorient