Possible solution to disappearing money menu/name tags

[Snyp3r]

tl;dr: Open/close the console once every time you load the game, before you join a server.

Myself, and I know at least 2 of my buddies have seen this happen often enough to be annoying, where the C-bill transfer menu, console, and nametags all become invisible. Clearing the shader cache supposedly fixes it temporarily at least, but that's kind of annoying to do regularly. Anyhow, I'm pretty sure this is a well known issue at this point.

I think I accidentally found a solution. After seeing this issue a few times, every time I loaded the game, I would open the console just to make sure it was working and I wouldn't need to clear my cache. Oddly, after a week, I noticed I hadn't had problems with my console/money menu anymore. Sure enough, the first time I forgot to open my console, my buy menu bugged out. Instead of clearing the cache, I tried just restarting the game, opening/closing the console, then joining the server, and everything worked fine again.

I haven't emptied my shader cache recently, and I can reproduce this behavior 100% of the time on my system at least. Every time I open/close the console after loading, I never have problems. Every time I forget, it bugs out. For reference, I'm running Win 7 x64, MWLL in 64 bit/DX10 mode, windowed.

If you add one line to your autoexec you will never have this problem again.

consoleshow

Works, I tested it all day.

[CGB [CoffiNail]]

+1 thanks.  It does not happen to me often in 64bit mode, but always in 32.  I will have to remember to open a console.

[Ralux]

Thats not the solution, restarting the game is it.

I've never deleted my shader cache, yet that bug disappears after restarting Crysis.
Opening and closing the console has nothing to do with this, I'm sure it happens as well if you open/close the console before joining a server.
It just doesn't happen all the time, so you might have gained the impression that this fixes it.

[GB-72AT Talon]

You can fix this by simply opening the actionmapper in the launcher, you don't have to make any changes, just open it, then close it, then launch game, fixed.

[Ralux]

What? No way dude, that has even less to do with this bug. The actionmapper is an independent program, it has absolutely nothing to do with Crysis. The actionmapper won't do anything if you just open/close it.

[CGB [CoffiNail]]

Thats not the solution, restarting the game is it.

I've never deleted my shader cache, yet that bug disappears after restarting Crysis.
Opening and closing the console has nothing to do with this, I'm sure it happens as well if you open/close the console before joining a server.
It just doesn't happen all the time, so you might have gained the impression that this fixes it.

I have had multiple instances of restarting not working actually... clearing the cache one time did not even do it I had to restart my PC... I will need to try your suggestion Talon.

[Ralux]

Well for me simply restarting the game works EVERY time - at least as I can remember it. I never tried anything else, there was just no need to.

Its very random, happens about once every week.

However I wish there was a console command to reload the GUI or something, certain other games have that command. You could just type that in blindly... Is there such a command?

[GB-72AT Talon]

What? No way dude, that has even less to do with this bug. The actionmapper is an independent program, it has absolutely nothing to do with Crysis. The actionmapper won't do anything if you just open/close it.

All I know is I have restarted the game and problem was still there.  Also arrow buttons won't work to select weapons.  Simply exiting the game, start actionmapper, exit, start game.  Works every single time for me.

[Ralux]

The actionmapper simply cannot be the solution because all it does if you just start and then close it is read, and ONLY read your profile.xml file once. Nothing else.

You might just have experienced the problem twice in a row - happens sometimes with random bugs like this one.

You might also ask yourselves why I'm sure the other proposed solution doesn't fix it.
Well I've always been a flyboy and not long ago you had to open the console and type "invertmousepitch" every time after a restart of the game to fly properly - (yeah, I did find out about the autoexec.cfg after some time).
But before that I did it via the console for about two months - yet this bug still happend sometimes.

[Snyp3r]

Opening and closing the console has nothing to do with this, I'm sure it happens as well if you open/close the console before joining a server.
It just doesn't happen all the time, so you might have gained the impression that this fixes it.

Well, this probably won't work for everyone, but at least on my machine I've tried reproducing it enough times that I'm certain this is the fix, at least for me. It works where simply restarting the game has failed me many times.

[dsi1]

I'm not sure about actionmapper, but I think the console opening theory is on target, every time I've had this bug I've also been unable to open the console. (or more specifically, it didn't show up)

[=KoS= Tripod]

All I know is I have restarted the game and problem was still there.  Also arrow buttons won't work to select weapons.  Simply exiting the game, start actionmapper, exit, start game.  Works every single time for me.

That's just cause you got the invisible money menu open. Clicking Ctrl will fix it

Damn, I want a fix for this problem already, but everyone seems to be saying everyone's wrong

[Snyp3r]

Damn, I wan't a fix for this problem already, but everyone seems to be saying everyone's wrong

Well, just try all of them, maybe one of them will work!

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Voiding to clear your Shader/Cache folder whilst trying to narrow a bug/issue of a graphical anomaly in the game is not valid. You are establishing your base test in a poluted environment.

Direct reproduceable steps to aquire the issue is what we are looking for. Having to deal with a temporary fix is not an accepted solution, even if it may hint at the source of the issue.

The actionmapper assigns the available functions in the game with your chosen controller units in your game profile, nothing else iirc.

[Snyp3r]

Well the reason I posted this here instead of as a bug report was to hopefully help people having the issue who want to be able to avoid it. Fixing it once and for all would be great, but until then, I'm sure a lot of players would rather not deal with it. It is definitely just a temporary fix, but a temporary fix is better than no fix at all.