Why does the NOW line still dissapear?

I would have though that they would have fixed it by now.  I guess it's low priority.  Who needs a NOW line anyway?

It happens to me all the time, it is totally random and different things seem to cause it,therefore it would be hard to reproduce. I just hit save and reopen the project to get it back.

It's been that way since X1.

It was reported a long time ago, probably more than once.

I had a support ticket opened for this a while ago (when I was running x2a) but it was closed as a system specific issue. There wasn't much else to do since I couldn't reproduce it. There are a number of posts about this under different names - time line, now time, now marker, etc. These appear to report the same thing - the Now Time Marker randomly disappears and will only come back after closing and reopening the project. Some have reported that doing something like toggling the inspector (I) will bring it back so that might be worth a try. My own personal observations were that it seemed to happen more with older projects (8.5.3), and when switching back from the PRV. I have X3e installed but I haven't spent enough time with it to say it continues for me.

Jlien X
Does anyone reading this thread know if the issue was confirmed and submitted to development or if the ticket was closed as unreproducible?

I'm guessing few actual reports were submitted because it's almost never reproducible. But the Bakers did participate in some threads, and my understanding is that multiple contributing factors have been addressed over time. I saw it a lot in the early releases of X1, but haven't seen it for over a year, now. So at this point, any remaining issues may well be system-specific. One thing that helped reduce the frequency for me back in X1 was to set "Adjust for best appearance" instead of "Let Windows choose..." under System Properties > Performance > Visual Effects.

I never had it happen to me in X1. I skipped the upgrade to X2 and waited for X3. When I got X3 it was at X3d and I started having this issue. I will check the settings you mentioned above Brundlefly and see where I am at but as I said earlier I just save and reopen the project and I am good to go again. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
Edit:  Checked and I am already set for best performance on visual effects.

I haven't had this happen in a while now...but when it used to happen to me...I could switch to a different screenset and back and it would usually fix it.  That way I didn't have to close and reopen the project.
 
Don't know if it will help with others...but it did for me.

The now time line will disappear every time when using the playlist if the "keep playlist on top" button isn't pressed. I haven't submitted a report, it's always been that way, but I always have that button on so it doesn't bother me.