Appreciated, and no I don't run any programs, save firewall and antivirus while I'm playing MxO, haven't tried a full shutdown yet, however this problem has persisted since yesterday so I'm not sure that's it, but I'll give it a try thank you. EDIT: Nope, that's not it, though it was a descent idea, any other takers? Thanks in advance by the way for any assisstance given.
Well, the option to see the descriptions you're describing is UI Tips in the advanced video option. I think you can toggle that to see if it fixes it without impacting any of your custom settings.
There is probably some user option like uitips=1 but I don't know off hand. I could look in options.cfg on mine if unchecking and checking the UI Tips in advanced video options doesn't work out for you.