[FF7] Tutorial for Bootleg - Tifa's Bootleg

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@reshin and all other people who move FF7-Steam

My Game Converter reads the registry key

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140"        for 64Bit-Systems

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140"        for 32Bit-Systems

There is a value "InstallLocation" which contains the path to FF7.
Please refer in your registry, if the path is also pointing to the moved folder. (use "C:\Windows\regedit" for this)

If not, the key is obviously not set to the moved folder, no matter what method you use to move.

If you set this key manually (after moving) to the moved path, my GC should take this path as the source/destination.
 
I'll add this info to the FAQ I've stolen from the front page of this thread and reposted HERE

You guys can feel free to keep posting questions here or there, but I think 58 pages is too hard to search through and people are missing the FAQ because it's at the very bottom of the front page of this thread, after it looks like Alyza's tutorial is finished.
 
Tifa with white squares... What model is this...? AC Tifa? Try installing Whiteraven's Tifa instead if that's the only issue you've got going, I think AC Tifa AND Yuffie may have problems off boot40.
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So...do I need to uninstall the whole thing and reinstall again? Or can I just change one or two files from the game's folder or something.

Also, I've installed whitereaven's Yuffie from the get go, so I guess I don't need to worry about that, right?
 
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So...do I need to uninstall the whole thing and reinstall again? Or can I just change one or two files from the game's folder or something.
Also, I've installed whitereaven's Yuffie from the get go, so I guess I don't need to worry about that, right?
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Here's what I would suggest. Test the Tifa model cmh175 said to download above and install it in your DIRECT folder. It's good for testing out models individually. And for fixing problems with small mods.
Here's what it will look like doing the process:
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notice the field folder files need to go to the direct\char\ folder. The others are named the same. All the files from world go to direct\world\ etc. Don't put the folder in, just the files inside the downloaded folders get moved over.
Once you've done that, you just need to ACTIVATE "direct mode" in bootloader and load up the game and see if that worked. About Yuffie: I wasn't aware Whiteraven's AC Yuffie was on bootleg40, you may find yourself having to do the same process but with the Yuffie model from this thread.
 
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I did just as you told me to, but Tifa still only has her prp model with white squares on her face... Any other way to do it?
Also, my direct folders have nothing in it prior to the procedure you just described. Is that supposed to be empty?
 
I did just as you told me to, but Tifa still only has her prp model with white squares on her face... Any other way to do it?
Also, my direct folders have nothing in it prior to the procedure you just described. Is that supposed to be empty?
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Yes, I forgot to tell you to activate direct mode in bootloader config! sorry, but yes they are supposed to be empty.
 
Here's what I would suggest. Test the Tifa model cmh175 said to download above and install it in your DIRECT folder. It's good for testing out models individually. And for fixing problems with small mods.
Here's what it will look like doing the process:
instructions2_zps45e54aea.png
instructions3_zpsd0efd9f0.png

notice the field folder files need to go to the direct\char\ folder. The others are named the same. All the files from world go to direct\world\ etc. Don't put the folder in, just the files inside the downloaded folders get moved over.
Once you've done that, load up the game and see if that worked. About Yuffie: I wasn't aware Whiteraven's AC Yuffie was on bootleg40, you may find yourself having to do the same process but with the Yuffie model from this thread.
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Directions with screenshots, dude you're the man. My directions tend to be overly vague. Make sure you check direct mode in bootloader first. Yes the direct files will be empty.

~ Ah, Templates got this covered.
 
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alright, it worked!
Thanks a bunch!
Just one more question though: Maybe I'll have to do it with Yuffie too, right? If that is the case, how should I procede? I'm guessing the files, even though they are for different characters, have the same name and I will be asked to ovewrite them, right? I'll have to choose which one I won't want to be bugged?
 
alright, it worked!
Thanks a bunch!
Just one more question though: Maybe I'll have to do it with Yuffie too, right? If that is the case, how should I procede? I'm guessing the files, even though they are for different characters, have the same name and I will be asked to ovewrite them, right? I'll have to choose which one I won't want to be bugged?
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Grimmys Yuffie is broken though so make sure you're using Whiteravens. It's an updated version of Grimmys so they look pretty similar for the most part, but it has updates and corrections made to it.
 
This is worth discussing. I know for a fact cmh175 is on an Nvidia card. This GL out of memory thing is Nvidia related maybe? But in the second link Kompass posted, that guy says he had postprocessing on. Cmh you aren't running post-processing are you? My Radeon card will try to do it, says it's working, makes no improvement and drops my fps considerably if I also have Anti-Aliasing forced on.

Edit: Wow... OK yeah, I'm gonna put something about this in the FAQ. VBO and PBO should work perfectly on NVIDIA cards, even while using texture-caching. Post processing is not working right now, and it probably will cause a video related crash on either card.
 
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This is worth discussing. I know for a fact cmh175 is on an Nvidia card. This GL out of memory thing is Nvidia related maybe? But in the second link Kompass posted, that guy says he had postprocessing on. Cmh you aren't running post-processing are you? My Radeon card will try to do it, says it's working, makes no improvement and drops my fps considerably if I also have Anti-Aliasing forced on.
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...yes I've been running post processing. It promised me good things. Sounds like that's the issue than huh? It uses up more memory than FF7 can handle. Are the other options like pbo and vbo ok or are they contributing to the error? I was thinking not having these options running in the 7thwrapper maybe why I was getting a delay with the ff7music. I'm not sure though of course, I posted the error code in that thread though.
 
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I do not think the problem is in post-processing.
I think it is up to VBO and PBO, the first was not listed by Aali.

But I can be wrong ...
What postprocessing filter are you using?
How long must you play FF7, so it crashes?
 
I play with the no-light bloom post-processing effect and lots of AA and I never have slowdown. It is also visually working correctly.
 
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Actually you're probably right about the vbo and pbo. I forgot that when you disable the shading options in the plugins tab I think it unchecks post processing. I haven't used the shading options since I did my fmv mod. They darken the videos some and after spending....too long looking at each video with the color and contrast settings I used they looked off to me. I had v-sync and everything else on the right side checked other than post processing.
 
I play with the no-light bloom post-processing effect and lots of AA and I never have slowdown. It is also visually working correctly.
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OK! Sweet. This is good info to have, sincerely. Is that one of the filter sets that comes with bootleg? I actually also wanted to ask you about the thing you did with the NVIDIA wrapper file rename... Could you not play ff7 at all for a while before that? I vaguely remember you writing that your ff7config had been broken until that fix was posted. And if you get super bored and want to show the effects off can we see screenies in hi-res? Maybe just snipping tool a good res shot of Cloud looking into the camera from the opening scene? I haven't had anyone tell me they are working visually. I mean, I can get them to do SOMETHING, but it's not what they are supposed to do.

So maybe it's a certain .post file that works, and some of the others will cause crashes, but Aali used to say that PBO and VBO should work for Nvidia. On my Radeon I have to turn off PBO or texture caching won't work right. But new drivers all the time. So maybe things changed on the Nvidia side.

Edit: @ CNH Do you use PBO and VBO? I know you have a good setup but I forget if you are running SLI?
 
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I was able to play prior, but my config worked only the first time after install. I am not using Bootleg, and the post is just the default bloom2.post but the no-light fix version.
 
I purchased the Steam edition of FF7 and am encountering some difficulty getting Tifa's bootleg to work. It appears as if only some of the mods are working and the game is extremely unplayable. The first menu screen is using the default wallpaper instead of the custom settings and it is almost completely white. After the opening FMV only the character models show up and the background is completely white. After winning the first fight Clouds portrait was missing in the menu screen. The dialogue is almost impossible to read from the white effect on the screen. I have tried to uninstall and re-install a bunch of times but I'm not having any success. I'm using an E8400 with a 660GTX+4GB of ram. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit: Also the first few times I installed it I was trying to use Bootleg + Rumbah and the FMVs would not load. Reinstalling with Rumbah 1280 Smooth fixed the issue. Not sure why that was happening. All of the mods came from a ~17GB torrent and I'm using Bootleg 040. All of the items appear in green or yellow.
 
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