Once i board a ship, the user interface is non existent, the battle is over however i cannot access the world map, sail anywhere, trade ship cargo with others etc etc. i will post a screenshot below.

it's like the game just went into realism mode; no information relating to the ship at all. thanks! :)

I have just tried a couple ship boarding events and I do not experience this myself.

Does this happen every time you board a ship?

If not, do you still have the boarding save for this instance, and if you reload that save, does it happen every time?

If either of the questions is "yes", can you send me your save, and also inside the SAVE folder there are folders for each profile you are using for the game, there should also be an "options" folder inside the profile you are using; please send the contents of that folder too.  You can zip the save game and the options folder together.

Email to chezjfrey@hotmail.com

Ok sent those along, i believe i sent everything correctly. :)

Edit: Also there was no 'options' folder for this save? there is for my original 1st playthrough, the save i sent with the issue; is a secondary playthrough, so i just sent the 'options' folder irrespective of the save. 

cheers!

I got your files. 

With your boarding save, I did experience the problem you describe, where after boarding, there is no GUI HUD after returning to sea.  With this, I can probably track down the problem, so thank you.  I will let you know when I get this figured out.

OK, in the meantime, you can save the game after returning to sea, then go to the menu and load that same save; I just tried that and it at least works around the problem for now.  The HUD will return, so you can at least resume normally.  I will continue to look at this.

Nice one, thank you very much!

I got it fixed and will be in next update.