tekgiris23 I am still not entirely sure it is unrelated to some Windows update, actually: I had this same thing start happening all of a sudden on 0.3.10, then I grabbed 0.3.20 and the problem went away. Then I remembered that I [just as suddenly] lost visual in another game, Karryn's Prison**, and grabbing a new version of that game helped as well. KP itself reminded me of YET ANOTHER instance of a game breaking (not even starting anymore)...so I figured MS changed something related to graphics blablablalotsofsmartsoundingwordshere.
**It would work again if I disabled GPU rendering for the game.