Spectral Layers 12.0.40 crashes after the splash screen

SpectraLayers
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Hi everyone. Spectral layers 12 has been working fine, even yesterday.

I’m on a 9950x3D system, 64gb RAM, 9100 Pro m.2, 9070xt.

I have uninstalled, re installed with revo to. I have deactivated and reactivated, I have forced my GPU drivers on a hard reset, I have uninstalled them with DDU and re installed them.

I have gone into the app data a folders and cashe folders and deleted them.

Windows 11 Pro is up to date, I have used winget include unknow command, dism restore health, sfc/scannow commands, restarted countless times, i have taken any overclocks off the cpu and gpu and nothing is working.

I double click spectral layers 12 as I always have, the splash screen pops up and then disappears. I have multi monitors x 2 I had 3 but took one off and today when trying to fix this, only 1 has been on.

Cubase 14, Nuendo 15 and Wavelab 13 all work, so does Ableton Live 12 and FL Studio 25. All my plugins are bought and paid and fully up to date.

I’m using a Motu M4 and I have updated those drivers and tried loading Spectral Layers when its switched off in case of ASIO hangs.

Doers anyone know how to fix this? or if its a known issue?

Qt6CoreSL.dll this is showing as the fault or error in Event Viewer.

I have looked online with Ai and tried all the steps.

I have used RAMMap to reduce the ram on load.

Please help!

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@VennoxHD This was the solution for a user with the same problem some time ago:

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Thank you, I will give that a go on SL12. So what is it run from, the file path of the exe? Command prompt or something else?

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@VennoxHD Looks like a command prompt. Navigate to the SpectraLayers folder where the exe is located via Windows Explorer, then click in the address bar at the top of the Explorer window to highlight everything in it, then type cmd and press Enter. This will run the command prompt directly in this folder. Then just type SpectraLayers.exe -reset inside the command prompt and press Enter.

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Right I did all of that and no joy but… some deep Ai digging…fixed.

Below needs to be copied into notepad and then saved as FixSpectraLayers.bat

Then you run the file and job done.

Spectral layers opens up straight away,

I had to re-scan my plugins etc but everything now works.

Thank you all for your help.:wink::+1:

I tried those and every trick in the book until I found this which did the trick :smiling_face:

Copy & Paste everything below…

@echo off

title SpectraLayers 12 Custom Hardware Reset

echo [1/3] Wiping corrupt user interface registry blocks…

reg delete “HKCU\Software\Steinberg\SpectraLayers 12.0” /f 2>nul

echo [2/3] Bypassing corrupted local cache states…

rmdir /s /q “%appdata%\Steinberg\SpectraLayers 12.0” 2>nul

rmdir /s /q “%appdata%\Steinberg\Steinberg MediaBay Server” 2>nul

echo [3/3] Launching with safe graphic-scaling and CPU-only rendering…

cd /d “C:\Program Files\Steinberg\SpectraLayers 12\Win-x86_64\”

start “” “SpectraLayers.exe” -device cpu -dpiscaling 1

echo Operation complete. Check if the app opened in the background.

pause