SweetFX

[Smokey the Bear]

Yeah, just tried that. Didn't seem to help, unfortunately.

Oh yeah, just saw you said rar'd files. Extract them and you're good.

[Myrken]

Run as admin shouldn't affect it because its separate from the game client. However be sure you have the preset settings text as well as the sweetfx files from the rar in the live folder and its properly named.

[Liquid Frostbite]

For starters read my posts on page 3 you have to take the contents of the rar file and drop them in the live folder in the defiance install folder. Then download my preset and rename it "SweetFX_settings" then paste that into the live folder as well and overwrite the default one that comes in the rar with my new preset.

Game should run fine then.

If you forget to rename the preset before pasting it then it may be trying to inject Directx with an invalid setting and thus closes the program.

Yeah, strange. I just did all of that, but I'm still having the same issue. Maybe reinstalling the game outside of Steam will help.

[Myrken]

I just walked my friend through how to add it to his steam copy and it works fine so that shouldn't be an issue. Your putting all the files into the live folder in C:/programfilesx86/steam/steamapps/common/Defiance/live ?

Contents of your live folder should look like this when done.

[Raidenz]

wow, so many replies. glad i'm not the only one that knows how amazing sweetfx is.

[Radec]

Is there any confirmation that SweetFX is allowed to use for Defiance, I really hope so because your preset is looking great Myrken.

[Raidenz]

I can't seem to get SweetFX to work with my copy of Defiance. I put the rar'ed files into my Defiance/Live folder and when I hit 'Play" in the patcher, the Defiance window opens for a few seconds and then closes.

If I manually remove the SweetFX folder and files in the Defiance/Live folder, the game will launch fine.

Any ideas?

this is actually the reason why I started this thread, this is the problem I am having.

no matter what I do, the game will not launch with sweetfx in it.

it works fine once I remove the files.

I've had no issues using sweetfx on any other games and it worked fine for alpha/beta.

[Raidenz]

so I found out why my sweetfx wasn't working.

I was using the presets folder for my settings which is the way it is meant to be used.

for defiance, you can't do that, you must use the default settings .txt file.

so if anyone else is having trouble getting sweetfx to work, DO NOT USE the SweetFX_preset.txt to point to a preset in the Presets folder. that is the issue.

[Psyqhical]

I'm using this one and it's working just fine.

http://gsngaming.com/topic/9003-defiance-sweetfx-v14/

[Sinafey]

I was using sweetfx 1.4 this and the preset Myrken made, the game worked fine and looked fine. But after I logged out from a few hours of gaming and decided to continue, the game would just open in a window, show a white screen and then crash.

Anyone know what this is about? As soon as I remove sweetFX it starts working... but back to its ugly self again.