HUD completely dissapeared

[Kev]

I haven't been playing NMS for a while but when I got in today it seemed my HUD dissapeared completely, besides the aim dot in the center. I have no information about shield status, planet temperature or whatsoever.

It seems to not be the option to hide/show the HUD either, cause it only removes the aim dot in the center of the screen. Can anyone help me out with this one?

[p0pt@rt]

try hitting the "H" key to bring up your hud? There's only two ways I know of (and three that I can think of) that would cause a hidden hud...

1) Hud is disabled in settings, which you've verified for us already (right?).
2) Hud is hidden by inactivity or lack of information to display (hitting "H" will restore your hud momentarily until it fades back into hidden)
3) A glitch producing undesired results.. try deleting your shadercache, and save game cache, but you may have to uninstall and delete any remains of NMS (besides your save games) and then reinstall..

If you still have no HUD after reinstalling, try another save game as it might be your save that got corrupted...

[Kev]

Thank you for your reply.

-Hitting the H key does not seem to bring up anything. I still only see my white aim marker in the middle of the screen, nothing else is appearing.

-HUD is enabled in settings, but even when disabling and enabling it doesn't work.

-HUD hidden by inactivity; I remember this one, but then as soon as I start moving then it should appear, right? Lack of information to display is a bit odd to me, I'm on a toxic planet apparently and my shield is dropping rapidly, but I cannot see this information, just the message popping up "Shield is on 25% remaining".
-I will try deleting the shadercache and see what happens.

I basicly started a new game multiple times by now to see if the save file was corrupted. Seemed to still appear every time I got back into the game.

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Manacheli:

Thank you for your reply.

(Troubleshooting done)

I basicly started a new game multiple times by now to see if the save file was corrupted. Seemed to still appear every time I got back into the game.

GL with the shadercache, hope that does it..

Sounds like it's something with game files then.. first, do you use mods? If so, which? Hopefully it's just a mod with a bad setting or file path or something.. Otherwise, you might be looking at uninstall of the game (and it's content remains in the steam folders) and then reinstalling..

(Just another thought)
I suppose it could also be related to another program on the system preventing the overlay.. when did the issue initiate?

[Kev]

Deleting shadercashe didnt seem to work, unfortunately. And no, I do not use any mods.

The issue started out yesterday late, at the same time the AMD issue started with trippy sky effects. You think it might be related?

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Manacheli:

The issue started out yesterday late, at the same time the AMD issue started with trippy sky effects. You think it might be related?

I'm almost positive.. sounds like your video drivers got updated.. try rolling back to drivers that were released between Sep2016 and Feb2017.. Devs may be working with current drivers now, but we won't see that new support until the next update.. for now, I'd recommend using drivers the developers were likely using when they developed Pathfinder..

[Kev]

Originally posted by kremit_defrog:

Originally posted by Manacheli:

The issue started out yesterday late, at the same time the AMD issue started with trippy sky effects. You think it might be related?

I'm almost positive.. sounds like your video drivers got updated.. try rolling back to drivers that were released between Sep2016 and Feb2017.. Devs may be working with current drivers now, but we won't see that new support until the next update.. for now, I'd recommend using drivers the developers were likely using when they developed Pathfinder..

Yeah AMD drivers got updated last night and there's a few issues with that. Before I try rolling back the update (which is a pain to do) I'll try and see if a reinstallation works. Posting back in a short bit. Thanks once again!

[p0pt@rt]

at this point, I doubt reinstall is going to work, because NMS isn't to blame.. the video drivers are... if it were a conflict with NMS and the drivers that were actually resolvable without rolling back, deleting the shadercache would have resolved this..

[Kev]

Originally posted by kremit_defrog:

at this point, I doubt reinstall is going to work, because NMS isn't to blame.. the video drivers are... if it were a conflict with NMS and the drivers that were actually resolvable without rolling back, deleting the shadercache would have resolved this..

As you mentioned, it did not work out. I'm going to try rerolling, as much as I hate doing that :(. Thank you for your help man. Hopefully it works out!

[p0pt@rt]

best of luck!

[Isme]

While on the subject, could someone tell me typical PC path to folders where the shader cache etc are? C/User/name/xxx?

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Isme:

While on the subject, could someone tell me typical PC path to folders where the shader cache etc are? C/User/name/xxx?

(SteamPath)\SteamApps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\SHADERCACHE\