The altimeter vanished from my Map View

[Gregory]

Win7 64 (although task manager shows KSP.exe *32, so steam must be using the 32bit)

KSP v0.25.0.642 from Steam with no mods

Terrain Detail: Default

SM3 Terrain Shaders: Enabled

Terrain Scatters(WIP): Disabled

Scatter Density: 50%

Render Quality Level: Fantastic

Texture Quality: Full Res

Fallback part shaders: false

Aerodynamic FX Quality: Normal

Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Full Screen: Enabled (windowed has same problem)

Anti-Aliasing: 2x

V Sync: Every VBlank

Frame Limit: 120 FPS

Pixel Light Count: 8

Shadow Cascades: 4

Flight UI Size: Small (this didn't seem to help)

KSP_win\KSP_Data\output_log.txt (6.8mb)

System Specifications: DxDiag.txt

I'm not sure what I did, but the altimeter seems to have "fallen off" of my map view. It was there one mission then gone the next. When in staging view it is still visible, and if I hover over it on the launch pad then it does the drop down showing recover and space center then while still hovered I press M to go to map view and the very bottom edge is still visible until I hover off. Is there any manual setting I can change to move it back on screen?

Here is a picture of the barely visible altimeter at the top:

[Claw]

I believe this problem is triggered when running windowed mode at the same resolution as your desktop size, and it persists if you switch to full screen mode.

You can try running in "frameless window mode." I can't recall what steam calls it, but it might also be "borderless window mode," and many people call it fake full screen mode. Steam has a check box option to use this mode. Alternatively, you can run KSP.exe directly by creating a shortcut and adding "-popupwindow" to the command line argument.

Personally I prefer borderless window mode. Works much better than full screen and doesn't have the graphics hiccups. If that doesn't work well for you and you still want a windowed mode, try reducing the game resolution a little bit and that should help.

Welcome to the forums!

~Claw

[Gregory]

Using the -popupwindow I was able to start in borderless window mode, which is actually quite nice; however it did not fix the problem. Also when the problem started I was using full screen the whole time; I only tried windowed mode to see if that would fix the problem, sadly it did not. I also tried various other screen resolutions and even the Disable desktop composition option which has worked on other games in the past, but sadly nothing seems to be working for me. So I'm still missing the altimeter, also I noticed when I switch back and forth to map view using the M key the altimeter does transition off screen with a sliding effect just like the other UI components (pilots, and staging info), So is there maybe there's a key combo to hide/show the altimeter in map view?