Alright, so, today I ran into a weird issue while playing Baldur’s Gate 3. I was right in the middle of a pretty intense fight, when suddenly, poof! My user interface, the UI, just vanished. Gone. Disappeared into thin air. It was incredibly frustrating.
At first, I thought I accidentally hit some weird key combination. I mashed a bunch of buttons on my keyboard, hoping to bring it back. Nothing. Then I figured maybe it was just a temporary glitch. So, I tried pausing the game, thinking that might reset things. I hit the spacebar to pause, and guess what? The UI magically reappeared! I was like, “Yes! Problem solved!”
But, nope. As soon as I unpaused, the darn thing disappeared again. Talk about a tease! It was like the game was playing hide-and-seek with my UI.
I could still select my other party members using the “character select” function, and I noticed they all had their UIs working perfectly fine. It was just my main character that was affected. That made it even weirder. What did my character do to deserve this UI-less treatment?
I tried everything I could think of. I went into the settings menu, hoping there might be some option to toggle the UI on and off. But even the settings menu wouldn’t show up when I pressed the ESC button. It was like the game had selectively forgotten how to display anything related to the interface.
Then I remembered reading something about a “group mode” in the game. I figured, why not give it a shot? So, in the middle of this chaotic battle, with my UI still missing, I pressed the button to activate team group mode, that seemed to make things even worse. The entire UI disappeared, to the point where even the settings menu wouldn’t show with the ESC button.
After that didn’t work, I even tried the old quick save and quick load trick (F5). Still nothing. My UI remained stubbornly invisible.
I also tried the F5 trick of quick saving and quick loading. Nothing.
I spent a good chunk of time just messing around, trying to figure out what was going on. I eventually realized that the UI wasn’t truly gone. It was more like it was stuck in some kind of “dialogue mode.” It was like the game thought I was having a conversation, even though I was clearly in the middle of a fight.
It was a pretty annoying bug, especially since it made it almost impossible to properly control my character and finish the combat encounter. I couldn’t see my health, my abilities, anything. I was basically fighting blind.
The fix is to press esc, then the hotkey “L” to load to a previous autosave and reload to the save you were using. It didn’t resolve immediately.
Eventually, I had to resort to reloading an earlier save.
I hope this helps someone out there who might be experiencing the same frustrating issue. It’s definitely a weird one.
