Strange line in the water

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Metalogic

This has introduced some other oddities, though - on starting the game, I now just see a black screen for some time, then it goes straight to the Living Silent Hunter loading screen - previously it displayed some kind of branding video I think.

I've experienced that too. I'm using GWX, and it blanks their opening screen and the starting stock movie. Once I got everything set up I don't see it, because I use SH3 Commander and have it set to not show the opening movies anyway.

I haven't seen the lock-up you describe, so I can't help there.

What Nvidia settings are recommend for this game?

That I don't know, since it seems to work alright for me the way it is.