Silent Hunter 5 & Windows 10

[rmax]

I used to run SH5 on Win 10 with no problems (WoS 1.6). I then got myself a new laptop, and I now can't get it to work with WoS 2.2.

Steps:
1. Clean Install of Sh5 and set the EXE to admin and not to use scaling
2. Download UPLAY
3. Run Sh5 and Update Sh5 through Uplay
4. Quit Sh5
5. Extraxt WoS
6. When the Generic Patch updater is restored, I get messages stating something like byte XXXXXX is not expected. Hence the Generic Patcher only shows two items (I recall from 1.6 it showed loads).
7. Update using the JSGME and install mods
8. Run WoS - and the game loads and shows Doentiz inspecting crew of whatever
9. Now when I try and enter a submarine, or museum mode the load screen happens, and just after the splash screen turns colour I crash to desktop.

Any help gratfully received. I have scoured the forums here and found nothing that has helped.

Intel i7-8750H (2.2 GHz, 6 Cores)
Memory 16 GB
NVIDIA GTX 1060
Driver NVIDIA 417.35

Thanks comrades.