If "LAA" has something to do with anti aliasing, I have AA and anisotropic filtering off globally, everything set for max framerates. I doubt that would be a factor if the little culprit fails on launch anyway. MultiSH4 was one of my early suspects, I eliminated that as a possible cause by testing in a virgin install that doesn't have anything in it.
Amazon downloader is probably not the cause either;
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...t-1352632.html
That's a STEAM version with the same problem.