I'm having the exact same problem like you. This time it's on all of my missions. It's quite frankly ruined the experience for me as now i never know what i'm doing unless i pause the game and look that way

Agreed it's very distracting. Up til playing the steam version I'd only ever played the 1st 4 on my late 2001 X and I don't recall ever seeing it behave that way.

Hello.

Sorry for the necro, but I was having the same problem and found the solution.

I decided to leave it here in case anyone needs it.

Apparently this is a problem related to the framerate that, for some reason, did not stay locked, even when you configure it in your video card's control panel.

I knew that the game does not do well with very high framerates, so I decided to leave it at 60 (as recommended by a guide) and still I was having the problems you reported.

I decided to lower it to 30 (as the game originally ran on consoles). It had no effect.

Since I was not having screen tearing, vsync seemed to be working at least partially.

So I opened MSI AFTERBURNER to check the framerate and suddenly the hud problem disappeared. And the game was running at 60 FPS.

It didn't make sense.

I turned off Afterburner and the problem came back.

So i opened the Windows Gamer Bar and the game was running at 200 FPS+, despite VSYNC being enabled by the Splintercell.ini settings and my graphics card's control panel.

What I didn't remember is that I had left a 60 FPS lock on the MSI in a previous test. And that's how the problem was solved.

So the solution to the problem is to somehow lock and force the game to run at a maximum of 60 FPS, which may require some third-party software, like MSIA or DGVOODOO2, to work, since apparently the game ignores the graphics card's software instructions.