Disappearing minimap....?

[desertfox11194]

So, today while I was playing (more accurately- trying to play while avoiding streets and bridges that weren't being rendered (yes I've tried every method to fix the infamous textures disappearing and none of them work for me)) I noticed that my minimap suddenly was gone. The outside is there, and health/armor gauge works. But inside the circle is solid blue. There is no street map. Blips and letters aren't showing on it at all, it's just empty. The pause menu map works fine so I can set waypoints, but they don't show on the minimap either. Nor does the GPS line to them. However the talking GPS still works, telling me where to turn. I've googled this and it appears noone's encountered it before, at least in this game. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix it?

[desertfox11194]

It's worth adding I suppose that my entire HUD is now gone. The map is clear instead of blue, and theres no street info/car name/area or weapon info when you press down on the D-pad (I'm using an xbox controller, I'm not sure what the key to bring up that info would be).

 

 

Please do not double post. Use the EDIT button. - Girish

[mkey82]

This happens also when you restart the game?

[desertfox11194]

Yes. I've also loaded alternate saves, and it still isn't there. Not sure if it was related but I managed to use the talking GPS + careful driving to make it to an objective marker in a mission, but it went to a black loading screen and stopped responding.

 

Sorry about the double post, I wanted the last reply to be updated so people who had previously seen the topic and not been able to help might see this new information and have an idea.

[mkey82]

I guess your PC doesn't meet the minimum specification?

[desertfox11194]

I've got a Q8200 quad core @ 2.33Ghz, ATI Radeon HD4670 512MB card, and 4GB RAM, running Vista Ultimate 32-bit. The game has worked fine (as fine as a game this buggy can run) until yesterday. My PC passes the minimum specifications by an acceptable margin; The game runs at almost 30 fps. I'm not sure how that explains a suddenly disappearing HUD, though. Even if it didn't meet them, wouldn't the disappearing textures bug and others simply be much more common?

[mkey82]

Well, you indeed are well inside safety margins, so that leaves me perplexed.

 

Do you have any mods applied? Try to delete game settings, but that's a long shot.

[desertfox11194]

I've got alot of custom cars installed, and when I first noticed this I was using the Contagium mod, v1.2b. Other mods I've used are ambient wars and traffic control system. SimpleTrainer v6.3 is always installed as well.

 

I do have a car alias mod installed that displays a custom name on the screen when you enter the vehicle, is it possible this conflicted with the HUD? I'll remove it and let you know what happens.

 

I use the newest version of Xliveless as my .asi loader, if that matters.

[mkey82]

Yeah, mods usually matter

 

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=471976

[desertfox11194]

Well I've used all of them for weeks before this occurred. Should I create a new topic in that board?

[mkey82]

The problem is, with multiple mods you just have to follow the process of elimination and root out the cause of possible problems.

[desertfox11194]

I feel beyond stupid right now. After going through process of elimination with all the mods I use, I still didn't fix it. So I checked the menus because I was so totally out of ideas... and radar was turned off. I don't know how that happened or what did it, but my radar was disabled. Which does exactly what I thought was actually a serious problem with my game. When the map turned blue earlier, that must have been an unrelated issue (it sometimes happens when other textures fail to load, you probably knew that) This can be locked, I'm going to go punch myself in the face.