Launcher crashes using SweetFX

[Diebels74]

At first I have a AMD (ATI)Radeon 6970 and SweetFX.
I will not more missing SweetFX. So I have uninstall the update KB2670838 and the complete IE10 (I´m using FireFox). After restart I´m flying for 1 hour or more without a crash. My system: AMD FX 6200/ 8 GB RAM /ATI 6970/Windows 7 64bit

Greetz
Diebels

[Feathered_IV]

So that's why I've been having the crashes. Thanks for the tip. Hope a fix comes along, as it's hard to live without SweetFX now.

Edit: A search reveals version 1.4 came out less than a week ago. May be worth testing.

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/..._download.html

[Smilinjack]

I've uninstalled KB2670838 (when that's done it takes IE 10 with it..reverting back to IE 9).
A search for KB2670838 using Google reveals numerous problems encountered in both laptops and pc's after applying the update. MS thought initially that the problems were primarily in laptops running "hybrid" graphics, i.e., Intel processors and ATI graphic cards. When the PC community, including PC makers jumped on them, MS increased the scope of the problem to include PC's but I have not seen the full definition of the problem posted anywhere. May have something to do with DX 11.1 which was included in the KB267 update.

Anyhow, I have uninstalled KB2670838 and will leave it off my machine until MS sorts out the problem(s).

I reinstalled SweetFX 1.3 and all is well. ROF was also clobbered by the update to the point that it CTD with SweetFX installed. With the update removed, ROF runs fine with SweetFX installed.

MS has changed the designation of KB2670838 from "Important" to "Optional" in windows update. Just the same, make sure you don't apply the update without reading the KB first to see if the problems have been corrected.

SweetFX 1.4 does not contain any "fix" for this, at least that I can tell. You should be able to upgrade to V1.4 if you keep KB2670838 off your rigs.

[badfinger]

I searched for the KB2670838 file, but didn't find it. What are the steps to finding and uninstalling it?

Thanks,

binky9