diff --git a/gui/builtinViews/fittingView.py b/gui/builtinViews/fittingView.py
index 74e6a888e..b58674043 100644
--- a/gui/builtinViews/fittingView.py
+++ b/gui/builtinViews/fittingView.py
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ class FittingView(d.Display):
 
     def updateTab(self):
         sFit = service.Fit.getInstance()
-        fit = sFit.getFit(self.getActiveFit())
+        fit = sFit.getFit(self.getActiveFit(), basic=True)
 
         bitmap = BitmapLoader.getImage("race_%s_small" % fit.ship.item.race, "gui")
         text = "%s: %s" % (fit.ship.item.name, fit.name)
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ class FittingView(d.Display):
                pass
 
     def OnShow(self, event):
-        if not event.GetShow():
+        if event.GetShow():
             try:
                 self.MakeSnapshot()
             except:
diff --git a/gui/mainFrame.py b/gui/mainFrame.py
index 9a1e9eec3..69dd1fd37 100644
--- a/gui/mainFrame.py
+++ b/gui/mainFrame.py
@@ -89,8 +89,9 @@ class OpenFitsThread(threading.Thread):
         # We use 1 for all fits except the last one where we use 2 so that we
         # have correct calculations displayed at startup
         for fitID in self.fits[:-1]:
+            print "startup 1 for fit: %s"%(fitID)
             wx.PostEvent(self.mainFrame, FitSelected(fitID=fitID, startup=1))
-
+        print "startup 2 for ",self.fits[-1]
         wx.PostEvent(self.mainFrame, FitSelected(fitID=self.fits[-1], startup=2))
         wx.CallAfter(self.callback)
 
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
         # Remove any fits that cause exception when fetching (non-existent fits)
         for id in fits[:]:
             try:
-                sFit.getFit(id)
+                sFit.getFit(id, basic=True)
             except:
                 fits.remove(id)
 
diff --git a/service/fit.py b/service/fit.py
index c853ec701..b93d3b0b2 100644
--- a/service/fit.py
+++ b/service/fit.py
@@ -224,14 +224,19 @@ class Fit(object):
         eos.db.commit()
         self.recalc(fit, withBoosters=True)
 
-    def getFit(self, fitID, projected = False):
+    def getFit(self, fitID, projected=False, basic=False):
         ''' Gets fit from database, and populates fleet data.
 
         Projected is a recursion flag that is set to reduce recursions into projected fits
+        Basic is a flag to simply return the fit without any other processing
         '''
         if fitID is None:
             return None
         fit = eos.db.getFit(fitID)
+
+        if basic:
+            return fit
+
         inited = getattr(fit, "inited", None)
 
         if inited is None or inited is False: