Issues, Workarounds & Localization

i had this happen 1 time for me. and it was my fleet window that vanished ( no i didn't close it out) had to relog and rejoin fleet to get it back.


windows7 64 (patch's up to date)
AMD Phenom II 1100T 6 core
2 Radeon HD 6770's in Crossfire (11.11 drivers)
8 gig of ram

getting same issue but only on one of my accounts the rest are fine.
(do run several clients at once)

Windows 7 64,
intel i7 2600k
ati 6950,
8 gig ram

All drivers upto date

True, There goes my gametime, Risky to play in nullsec, in case UI may be unusable after any gatejump.

Priority - plox.

Windows XP home SP3
NVidia GTS 450
Phenom X2 555

I am mistaken on one issue - the ship not floating or spinning in the hangar - this happens when "load station environment" is unchecked. Thanks, Shpenat, for pointing this out to me. Now if we can just get the UI & windows to stay put.....

the issue even happens when alt tabbing out of the game, with out a single client running.

If you hit tab twice, the windows appear but minimized, you can double click on them to maximize them, but then the ui eventually disappears and you have to alt tab out again to reset it.

it's annoying wish to help to fix it

First of all, thank you very much Mahon.

Second, Confirming this is a workaround. Problem is while in fullscreen mode. Single client though, don't want to push it.

GL with the fix.!

Windows XP user here as well confirming the same problem with disappearing UIs. I made another post about this problem as well.

I've tried running the repair tool, defragging and just about everything I can think of short of completely uninstalling the client and reloading it (and I am not sure that would even fix the problem.)

BK

Im getting the same problems and im running XP as well

But im getting it while using the probing map, all my open windows bug out and go away when clicking the map/moving it and requires i open and shut the map or tab out and back in a few times to fix.

An additional thought may be an under-the-hood rendering of many, many ui elements exhausting resources. I keep my people and places open 100% of the time and have hundreds of bookmarks on each character. I frequently open my notepad and have many notes, a good handful of which are at max length. I keep at least 7 chat channels open all docked into the same window. Local is pulled out into a seperate window. Cargo is frequently open as well as the dscanner. Make sure the QA team is using multiple clients that are heavily loaded like this.

A misnomer present in this thread is that "windows disappear". In reality it is ui elements that disappear, and its frequently the window frame itself (i don't know your architecture - just translating into a familiar paradigm). Sometimes its just some window backgrounds that don't render, other times its select line items in a list.

Blowing the cobwebs off of some old UI development/debugging experience eons ago, and watching the behavior of this issue, reminds me of and leads me to believe that you are silently suppressing resource allocation/rendering problems.

Hope this helps!! :D And I was going to report that ctrl-alt-w helps when this happens. All windows get minimized and your neocom returns, if it was lost. Then you can restore critical windows one by one such as your overview and/or people and places so you can warp to safety. But I saw someone mention tab-tab a bit earlier and i had forgotten that trick. I'll be trying that in addition to playing in windowed mode tonight.

Thank you all.

p.s. oh, but ctrl-alt-w causes you to lose all but your system chat channels - a bit of a pain to keep opening them back up. Is that normal? Should that be normal?