GUI texture not showing up in unity 5?

Riight. So I'm not sure quite whats going on, but whenever I create a GUI texture in Unity 5. It won't show up in game view, whether it is paused or in play. GUI textures I had in game on the previous version of unity show up, but it won't even appear if I use prefabs that worked on previous versions of unity, or if I add the GUI texture component to an empty game object. My script used GUI textures. and being the absolutely terrible coder that I am I attempted to update it to use the UI system, which utterly failed. So I turn to the community. Is there any way to get GUI textures working in Unity 5?