Well, I'm kind of in a bad position right now. Windows 7 has a function called Timeout Detection and Recovery that seems to be happening all of the time on my machine. It's mostly an inconvenience at times, but it's practically a game breaker in CSS because every time it happens, the screen goes dark. I can still pub, but it makes 10 mans pretty much impossible since my money gets reset every time I have to rejoin. The obvious solution would be to stop what ever causes the TDRs from happening, but I'm becoming increasingly concerned that this might be due to hardware issues, and I'm not exactly floating in cash at the moment.

In other words, I want to know if there is a way to recover from a TDR in CSS without having to restart. I know that the game, for all intents and purposes, is still running because I can still hear everything, can type stuff in console (without seeing it), and can still use voice chat. Alt tabbing doesn't fix the issue. Reloading all materials doesn't help, nor does changing the DX value. I'm about to start messing with my registry, but I'd rather not if someone has a simpler solution.

I'm tempted to run the game in Open Gl, though I'd rather not as this would prevent me from playing on any servers set up for CEVO.