Quote Originally Posted by SieyaM View Post
So the thing I have discovered which is not obvious in any way is that if you are wearing gear that hasn't been registered with a gear set then portraits wont work, even if none of the portraits have an error mark next to them. If you do anything to your gear, such as add materia, you need to refresh that gear set and then you need to update the portraits as well.
From my own usage this has been the consistent answer. If there's a problem I just unequip one item, save the gearset then re-equip that item and save gearset again. Has worked every time. Though the fact that it breaks for things as simple as display weapon/helm/visor is ridiculous.