Aali's driver [v 0.7.10b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

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i've tryed that the games slower plus it crashes at the same point as the latest one  :(
 
haven't tried using the driver for 8 yet so I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried turning off texture compression. That solved a lot of problem for me in ff7 with 0.710b
 
i tryed turing it off still crashed at the same point cud be my vid card settings i surpose but i doubt that as i'm using the launcher that came before this with no probs so i think i'll wait untill alii releases a new driver before i mess around with the driver any more
 
Hm. A while ago my game had no music, only sound effects. On suggestion I switched from using out.ds.dll to out.wave.dll. When I loaded the game again, I the music was fixed, but the graphics quality was greatly lowered (to the point where the textures weren't even functioning properly; the mountains in the overworld were literally black blocks that covered with the white text that says 'TEXTURE'). So I checked the renderer and I saw that it'd switched to the SR. I tried to switch back to OpenGl, but it's labelled as OpenGL (BROKEN). Trying to use it anyway just causes a black screen at the corner of the monitor and a crash.

Anyone know what's wrong?
 
your not supposed to use the opengl(broken) in the config. Its been broken ever since the b line or releases. Use the very last option that says "custom driver" or something like that
 
Has it? It was working fine for the first few weeks I used it. I tried the custom driver, but the rendering is awful. And it still has the 'TEXTURE' labels everywhere.
 
well if your using 0.710b you have to use the custom driver. The rendering on it should not be horrible, if it is then you may need to update your graphics card drivers, or there could be something else wrong. Post your app log up if you get a chance. Also post up your config file so I can see what settings your using.
 
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Thx for the tip. I tried yesterday turning all the congifs from the opengl on, but no results. I also tried turning everything off too, but I got no results either.

I'll try turning only this module you told later, and then I tell what happened, but I think it will not fix the problem.
 
what mods are you using? have you set up the custom driver in ff7 config exe file? Are you getting a crash dump file or just stuck at that screen? Where is your app log *hint* *hint*, and where is my steak ?  :-P
 
what mods are you using? have you set up the custom driver in ff7 config exe file? Are you getting a crash dump file or just stuck at that screen? Where is your app log *hint* *hint*, and where is my steak ?  :-P
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Hahah.

In the error screen I was not using any mods yet, cus I wanna make the full screen mode before applying any other thing.

First things first then: I'm don't have a app log, cus the game "thinks" it's working properly.
I have set the Aali's driver as the tuto says: copied the files to the folder and then opened the ff7config to set "Custom driver" to get the message telling me that the driver is working, and so I can change the settings in the ff7_opengl.cfg.

Actually I am not stuck, cus the game answer to the keyboard comands. My problem is that my view is distorted as I showed (the first image is wat I got, and the second is wat I was supposed to have).

thx for the help =)
 
doesn't matter if the game works perfectly or you have a million errors, there is always an app.log in the main folder. the crash.dump is only generated for a crash however. So post your app.log whenever you get a chance  :mrgreen:
 
doesn't matter if the game works perfectly or you have a million errors, there is always an app.log in the main folder. the crash.dump is only generated for a crash however. So post your app.log whenever you get a chance  :mrgreen:
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You're right, my mistake sry.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1125083/APP.LOG

that's my app.log :3

I guess this is the log for opening the game until the main screen and close.
Aw! the intro "movie" of the game appears with the same problem (except for the eidos and square intro movie).

thx =)
 
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hmm I know that the driver sometimes has problems with ati cards. You will need to turn off texture compression that's almost for certain. Also you might want to check and see if Ati has a new driver for your card, an outdated graphics driver can cause all kinds of mess. I think right now the latest is Catalyst 11.2 or something close to that. You could try turning off shaders and see what happens there. Also you did say you were using 0.7.10b right?
 
I'm using a similar card (Ati Xpress 1250) as you master puppet, and have the same problem. While I certainly suggest you try everything yarlson said (sometimes the smallest differences will cause something to work or not work after all), I can say none of that worked for me.

Also, while 11.2 is the latest driver, your card is a legacy card, and the last update ati released for legacy cards such as ours is 10.2. 11.2 is useable with the mobility modder, but in any case, neither driver got Aali's driver working on my system.

So, if nothing else works, I'd recommend you use 0.7.8 or 0.7.9, depending on your needs. If you want to use battle graphics mods, you'll have to use 7.9, but texture compression was disabled for certain things in that release, which may cause any area of the game using field or battle enhancement mods to load slowly. 7.8 still allows texture compression, which allows field areas to load much faster after the first time they've been loaded, but custom battle textures won't load due to the way that version was programed (not sure if it was a glitch or just something that wasn't a priority for implementing at the time). At least, this holds true for the mods using pngs, battle mods that use the lpg files work fine in 7.8 as far as I know.

Also, on 7.8, texture compression works fine, and on 7.8 and 7.9 the normal shaders work fine (as long as you use the nolight shaders for 7.9). So I'm pretty sure it's a different issue in 7.10, and I think I read Aali commenting that he broke support for some Ati cards in 7.10 awhile back, but don't quote me on that. I've been flipping between 7.9 and 7.8, depending on what I want, but I mostly use 7.8 since I really like faster loading times.

Probably not what you wanted to hear, but hope it helps. Good luck.

Also, my specs in case it might help with fixing the problem:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 1.9 GHz
ATI Xpress 1250
3 GB RAM
 
oh if you guys are forced to use outdated graphics drivers then you'll definitely want to downgrade as suggested above for now
0.7.10b has some problems with ati cards
try 0.7.9b or 0.7.8b, don't think anything else will fix your problem right now
 
Ok guys, thx

I'll try using the ff7_opengl-0.7.9b

but, huum, I know this is no place to do so, but the link for the older versions of the driver isn't working, wat can I do? D=

thx again :3
 
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