jaypers

All, Thanks for your replies. After working on this for over three days, I finally found the root cause. It was the MSI Afterburner running in the background, grabbing that .dll and not letting it go. To test, I completely uninstalled MSI Afterburner (after it being the last thing I tried!) and rebooted again, and no more errors.

Hello, I recently started getting errors in different games and applications with Windows 7 and they all seems to revolve around the aticfx32.dll (see appcrash details below) I am running windows 7 64-bit (see system details below) and crossfired Radeon 5870. I assumed this had something to do with my video card, or drivers. So I completely removed all drivers, and catalyst control center, and reinstalled them. I reinstalled Steam (which is where my games are) and redownloaded the games that were having troubles (not all games had issues). Some of them got fixed, but others still crashed periodically. The weird thing is, HL2 used to work fine, but then stopped working, but I was able to get it working again after going through all this. I am currently on CCC 11.8 beta (because 11.7 didn't seem to do anything). Like I said, HL2 is working now, but it seems that anything that calls that aticfx32.dll may not work. Below is the appcrash information when I was trying to run Hammer (the Level editor for HL). I also checked to make sure that I completely removed the aticfx32 and rewrote it when I did my reinstalls. Still, I get the error. I have rebooted the computer a number of times, I have done a completely clean reboot, where I start nothing but the OS. I have updated my audio drivers, run all the Windows Updates, etc. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I am not sure where to go from here. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: hammer.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 4a132f0c Fault Module Name: aticfx32.dll Fault Module Version: 8.17.10.1091 Fault Module Timestamp: 4e1bb871 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 000281bb OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 3656 Additional Information 2: 3656115a4fdcd3d173339f381d1f3168 Additional Information 3: 8bcb Additional Information 4: 8bcbdd4b11d676bc463f2097ec12dcb8 Processor Information: Vendor: GenuineIntel Speed: 3373 Mhz 8 logical processors 4 physical processors HyperThreading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Unsupported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported Network Information: Network Speed: Operating System Version: Windows 7 (64 bit) NTFS: Supported Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0 Video Card: Driver: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series DirectX Driver Name: aticfx32.dll Driver Version: 8.880.3.0 DirectX Driver Version: 8.17.10.1091 Driver Date: 11 July 2011 Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz DirectX Card: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series VendorID: 0x1002 DeviceID: 0x6898 Number of Monitors: 2 Number of Logical Video Cards: 2 No SLI or Crossfire Detected Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Desktop Resolution: 3600 x 1200 Primary Display Size: 26.65" x 16.65" (31.42" diag) 67.7cm x 42.3cm (79.8cm diag) Primary Bus Type Not Detected Primary VRAM: 1024 MB Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x Sound card: Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti Memory: RAM: 12286 Mb Miscellaneous: UI Language: English Microphone: Not set Media Type: DVD Total Hard Disk Space Available: 2878582 Mb Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 711355 Mb Steam Hard Disk Usage: 32792 Mb OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969 Game Controller: None detected