Nik apps crashing affinity

[Mph2 (martin horton)]

Evening guys, i have been using Nik 6 with affinity 2 with no problems for a while now however i am having some weird problems with it today… When i go to apply a nik application affinity instantly crashes and i lose everything… I have tried numerous different images and various Nik apps, same outcome… I am running Mac M2 and the latest versions of all applications… I have uninstalled and reinstalled both Nik 6 & affinity 2 but nothing has changed, affinity instantly crashes with no warnings or error codes and strangly no crash reports in the Mac console app. I have asked teh same question on the affinity forum but no joy so far… Any advice will be very welcome… Thanks very much… Martin

[mikerofoto]

have you reboot your computer?
AP 2.3.1 and Nik 6 work fine on M2 Sonoma 14.3

[Mph2 (martin horton)]

Hi Mike, yes I’ve rebooted numerous times now, turned off completely and restarted, uninstalled and reinstalled but it’s still not working. It was working perfectly until today, i haven’t updated anything or changed anything so it’s very strange.
The Nik apps are working correctly if I drag and drop directly into them it just crashes going through the affinity plug ins. It’s strange that there are no crash reports and no trail that I can find.

Thanks for your response, I’ll keep trying.

Cheers
Martin

[mikerofoto]

have you tried nik from PL?
what plugin you have with AP, do you have others than Nik… are the others crashing too?
is AP alone crashing if you just play with some adjustment etc?

[mikerofoto]

check this thread by @Pat91 :

All Nik plugins 6.7 now displaying a GPU/CPU status window upon startup and then crash

Hi, A very strange problem that appeared after installing Nik 6.7… As soon as a Nik plugin is launched, a small transparent window showing the status of the GPU and the GPU is displayed in the upper left corner of the plugin’s main window. See capture below. This happens with absolutely all Nik plugins be they launched standalone or from Photolab. [Problème Nik] In this situation, when I try to use the plugin’s Preferences menu, the Preferences dialog appears briefly and then the plugin cras…

[Mph2 (martin horton)]

Hi Mike, no I don’t use P/L but the Nik apps work perfectly standalone, both drag & drop and Cmd O. I only have Nik 6 installed as plug ins although I use Topaz gigapixel ai standalone with no problems. Affinity itself also works faultlessly on its own, the Nik plug ins have only started playing up since yesterday.

[Mph2 (martin horton)]

Hi Guys, i have managed to solve the issue… It seems i had an old file folder in the default folders which has now been deleted, along with the ‘/‘ from the support folders box and all is now working perfectly again. . I was pointed towards a similar thread on the affinity forum and eventually got the info from that… Relieved is an understatement!!
Thanks very much for your help and advice with this, much appreciated…

Cheers
Martin