Missing text, hud markers for targets, and "Loading..."

[archnem]

Hi all,

I haven't played KSP in a while, but now when I change settings, load a flight scene, or do pretty much anything, alot of text goes missing - part descriptions, HUD markers for targets/distance in-flight, the "Loading..." popup, even the Main Menu sometimes.  What is going on here?

[swjr-swis]

6 hours ago, archnem said:

I haven't played KSP in a while, but now when I change settings, load a flight scene, or do pretty much anything, alot of text goes missing - part descriptions, HUD markers for targets/distance in-flight, the "Loading..." popup, even the Main Menu sometimes.  What is going on here?

I've seen these things happen too with 1.3.0, not yet with 1.3.1pre. Another thing I've seen disappear a few times is the gizmo buttons in the top left in the SPH/VAB, which I've been able to make reappear by switching between the Build/Actions/Crew tabs.

Unfortunately I've not been able to reproduce it at will, which impedes making a bug report about it. I have a suspicion it starts happening when my game has been running for a long while already. With the better overall performance of 1.3.0, I can leave the game open a good bit longer (I'm talking hours), and the longer my game has run, the more I start seeing text from different places in the UI disappear. That said, it doesn't offer much of a bug report for the devs to work with.

[archnem]

I can reproduce some of it by changing any graphics setting, or by going to a flight scene and reverting to the VAB.

 

Also I just discovered last night that if I use the -force-d3d11 or -force-glcore command line options it fixes the problem FYI.

[swjr-swis]

1 hour ago, archnem said:

Also I just discovered last night that if I use the -force-d3d11 or -force-glcore command line options it fixes the problem FYI.

I use the -force-d3d11 option on the laptop; it still happens there too though.

[archnem]

11 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

I use the -force-d3d11 option on the laptop; it still happens there too though.

Yes, there are still problems - but it seems to take longer for problems to develop if I use the -force tags.