As title indicates cannot see the 3d models in the encyclopedia. This is steam version with a fresh install on Win 7 64.

Had no error messages when downloading the game and using the installer to load all the DLC's. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck.

Is there some in game setting I am overlooking?

Hmmm never heard of that one. Straight up weird.

Yes.

Just tried installing it on the family computer (Win 10) and they show up fine there. Unfortunately cannot really use that computer for playing the game without facing a court-martial by my wife.

Here is a screenshot of the problem:

May be try to update video drivers?

Thanks for the suggestion. Krabb over at the graviteam forums finally came up with the solution: had to mannually install the latest update to the program.