Aali's driver [v 0.7.7] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

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hello Mr Aali, i am a new member of the forum and i've just awared of the mod for FF7 since 4 days ago. Well, it is incredible! I am now using the REmix-patcher v2.5.1 from Titeguy3 which is using your opengl driver v0.7.3b.

The game is running smoothy!

But, would you like doing me a favor? Because i'm a newbie (which means noob, as you know it), so if i want to update the driver frm 0.7.3b to your newest driver 0.7.7b without destroying the remix-patcher v2.5.1, what should i do?

And if it's ok, i would like to update your version with the speedhack version from kranmer.

P/s: i copied and replaced the 0.7.3b in the Remix-patcher with yours 0.7.7b and the game can not start. after the starting movie it show that "ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." . I can't even acess to the new game/continue screen.

thank you a lot for your great work.
 
hello Mr Aali, i am a new member of the forum and i've just awared of the mod for FF7 since 4 days ago. Well, it is incredible! I am now using the REmix-patcher v2.5.1 from Titeguy3 which is using your opengl driver v0.7.3b.

The game is running smoothy!

But, would you like doing me a favor? Because i'm a newbie (which means noob, as you know it), so if i want to update the driver frm 0.7.3b to your newest driver 0.7.7b without destroying the remix-patcher v2.5.1, what should i do?

And if it's ok, i would like to update your version with the speedhack version from kranmer.

P/s: i copied and replaced the 0.7.3b in the Remix-patcher with yours 0.7.7b and the game can not start. after the starting movie it show that "ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." . I can't even acess to the new game/continue screen.

thank you a lot for your great work.
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phongvm90 if you read a few posts back you will find this is a error with the latest version. all you need to do is fill your empty save slots up (if you have any saves just go to your FF7 save folder and make a few copys then rename them until all slots are filled)
 
ahh wondered what that was. and yes I checked the log and did just that a while ago :)
 
Aargh.  I hate to bug you again Aali, but I've got another error.  It's kinda awkward:

OdinError.JPG


This was taken from Odin's "Gunge Lance" summon animation.  Naturally, its with the new battle interface turned on.  From my testing, it occurs in 5.7b, 6.7b, and 7.7b (I think that's the latest one), so that's why I think its either an unquashed bug or yet another Radeon driver screwup on my part.

If this is another case of my Radeon drivers screwing up, then my apologies.
 
Aargh.  I hate to bug you again Aali, but I've got another error.  It's kinda awkward:

OdinError.JPG


This was taken from Odin's "Gunge Lance" summon animation.  Naturally, its with the new battle interface turned on.  From my testing, it occurs in 5.7b, 6.7b, and 7.7b (I think that's the latest one), so that's why I think its either an unquashed bug or yet another Radeon driver screwup on my part.

If this is another case of my Radeon drivers screwing up, then my apologies.
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i just tested this and the same thing happened to me with so its definatley not your drivers (i am using a geforce 9600GSO with 197 drivers)
 
Thanks for the confirmation, kranmer.  Now, we wait for Aali. 8-)

*Shines giant silhouette of the openGL logo into the sky*
 
I don't mean to keep brimging this up but the title screen (the one with prelude music) does seem to be way too fast, it should be 30fps not 60fps....and the menu's should be 30fps too.
 
hello Mr Aali, i am a new member of the forum and i've just awared of the mod for FF7 since 4 days ago. Well, it is incredible! I am now using the REmix-patcher v2.5.1 from Titeguy3 which is using your opengl driver v0.7.3b.

The game is running smoothy!

But, would you like doing me a favor? Because i'm a newbie (which means noob, as you know it), so if i want to update the driver frm 0.7.3b to your newest driver 0.7.7b without destroying the remix-patcher v2.5.1, what should i do?

And if it's ok, i would like to update your version with the speedhack version from kranmer.

P/s: i copied and replaced the 0.7.3b in the Remix-patcher with yours 0.7.7b and the game can not start. after the starting movie it show that "ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." . I can't even acess to the new game/continue screen.

thank you a lot for your great work.
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phongvm90 if you read a few posts back you will find this is a error with the latest version. all you need to do is fill your empty save slots up (if you have any saves just go to your FF7 save folder and make a few copys then rename them until all slots are filled)
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Thank you Kranmer, I can play the game with your instruction now. But one more thing, the "original" remix-patcher v2.5.1 has a Ficedula music patch starts with the game, but after i copy Aali opengl driver 0.7.7b, these is no Ficedula music patch, only the speed hack of you appear. I wonder if the things happenned with the Ficedula patch also happen with other patch like limitBreak, choboco race patch, etc then the game may be broken in the future.

And now the game show a message : "libpng error: Read error" but still playable. I don't know what does it mean  :evil:
 
Just to get your bases covered:

Doublecheck your "ff7_opengl.cfg" file, as it probably got overwritten when you upgraded to 7.7b.  There should be an entry under "#plugins" that reads something like this:

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#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
You'll want to remove the "#" symbol that's in front of it, if you haven't already.  It lets the OpenGL driver know that you're trying to use FF7music with it. :mrgreen:
 
hello Mr Aali, i am a new member of the forum and i've just awared of the mod for FF7 since 4 days ago. Well, it is incredible! I am now using the REmix-patcher v2.5.1 from Titeguy3 which is using your opengl driver v0.7.3b.

The game is running smoothy!

But, would you like doing me a favor? Because i'm a newbie (which means noob, as you know it), so if i want to update the driver frm 0.7.3b to your newest driver 0.7.7b without destroying the remix-patcher v2.5.1, what should i do?

And if it's ok, i would like to update your version with the speedhack version from kranmer.

P/s: i copied and replaced the 0.7.3b in the Remix-patcher with yours 0.7.7b and the game can not start. after the starting movie it show that "ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." . I can't even acess to the new game/continue screen.

thank you a lot for your great work.
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phongvm90 if you read a few posts back you will find this is a error with the latest version. all you need to do is fill your empty save slots up (if you have any saves just go to your FF7 save folder and make a few copys then rename them until all slots are filled)
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Thank you Kranmer, I can play the game with your instruction now. But one more thing, the "original" remix-patcher v2.5.1 has a Ficedula music patch starts with the game, but after i copy Aali opengl driver 0.7.7b, these is no Ficedula music patch, only the speed hack of you appear. I wonder if the things happenned with the Ficedula patch also happen with other patch like limitBreak, choboco race patch, etc then the game may be broken in the future.

And now the game show a message : "libpng error: Read error" but still playable. I don't know what does it mean  :evil:
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well in the file "ff7_opengl.cfg" if you open it with notepad you will see a line that says
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
on this line just remove the # so it says
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
then save the file and that should (hopefully) enable it again.
also the chocobo patch is no longer needed (Aali's driver elimnates the need for chocobo patch and True motion codec) and the 9999 limit break and other patches are usually done on the EXE which Aali's driver doesnt touch so they should be fine.
Also i have never had the "libpng error" before so i cant help there, sorry.

EDIT- LoL looks like Goku7 beat me to it.
 
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hello Mr Aali, i am a new member of the forum and i've just awared of the mod for FF7 since 4 days ago. Well, it is incredible! I am now using the REmix-patcher v2.5.1 from Titeguy3 which is using your opengl driver v0.7.3b.

The game is running smoothy!

But, would you like doing me a favor? Because i'm a newbie (which means noob, as you know it), so if i want to update the driver frm 0.7.3b to your newest driver 0.7.7b without destroying the remix-patcher v2.5.1, what should i do?

And if it's ok, i would like to update your version with the speedhack version from kranmer.

P/s: i copied and replaced the 0.7.3b in the Remix-patcher with yours 0.7.7b and the game can not start. after the starting movie it show that "ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." . I can't even acess to the new game/continue screen.

thank you a lot for your great work.
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phongvm90 if you read a few posts back you will find this is a error with the latest version. all you need to do is fill your empty save slots up (if you have any saves just go to your FF7 save folder and make a few copys then rename them until all slots are filled)
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Thank you Kranmer, I can play the game with your instruction now. But one more thing, the "original" remix-patcher v2.5.1 has a Ficedula music patch starts with the game, but after i copy Aali opengl driver 0.7.7b, these is no Ficedula music patch, only the speed hack of you appear. I wonder if the things happenned with the Ficedula patch also happen with other patch like limitBreak, choboco race patch, etc then the game may be broken in the future.

And now the game show a message : "libpng error: Read error" but still playable. I don't know what does it mean  :evil:
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well in the file "ff7_opengl.cfg" if you open it with notepad you will see a line that says
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
on this line just remove the # so it says
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
then save the file and that should (hopefully) enable it again.
also the chocobo patch is no longer needed (Aali's driver elimnates the need for chocobo patch and True motion codec) and the 9999 limit break and other patches are usually done on the EXE which Aali's driver doesnt touch so they should be fine.
Also i have never had the "libpng error" before so i cant help there, sorry.

EDIT- LoL looks like Goku7 beat me to it.
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 :'(

thank you for the guide, but the Ficedula music patch still not appear.
and about the errors, i got some more:

1- i got that libpng error every time i get to the world map (ie: after finish a battle)
2- i got another error when i put tifa into the team, each time i encounter a battle, the game prints a message :"error: could not read from file tifa.t09" - But still playable.
3- i got a deadly error at the time i reach junon (after jumping to the top of it with the help of Mr. dolphin), a movie about the highwind showed but in the middle of it , a message showed: "error: could not read from file E:\programs\Squaresoft, inc\Final Fantasy VII\Data\music\wind.wav" . The game was still playable after that but when i go to the "big elevator", it crashed! It should play the "junair_d.avi" instead of crashing, i think.

Please help me T_T
 
Hmm....perhaps some of the other files related to the remix-patch got lost, overwritten, or flat out corrupted?  Check to make sure your Textures folder and Mods folders are in order, as well as any other folders that the remix-patch added.

Secondly, (I'm probably overthinking this) the error in junon regarding "wind.wav" and FF7music might be soundcard related.....what output plugin is FF7music using, out_wav.dll?  I'm thinking that both FF7 and FF7music are fighting over who gets to use the wav device in that particular spot.
 
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hello Mr Aali, i am a new member of the forum and i've just awared of the mod for FF7 since 4 days ago. Well, it is incredible! I am now using the REmix-patcher v2.5.1 from Titeguy3 which is using your opengl driver v0.7.3b.

The game is running smoothy!

But, would you like doing me a favor? Because i'm a newbie (which means noob, as you know it), so if i want to update the driver frm 0.7.3b to your newest driver 0.7.7b without destroying the remix-patcher v2.5.1, what should i do?

And if it's ok, i would like to update your version with the speedhack version from kranmer.

P/s: i copied and replaced the 0.7.3b in the Remix-patcher with yours 0.7.7b and the game can not start. after the starting movie it show that "ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." . I can't even acess to the new game/continue screen.

thank you a lot for your great work.
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phongvm90 if you read a few posts back you will find this is a error with the latest version. all you need to do is fill your empty save slots up (if you have any saves just go to your FF7 save folder and make a few copys then rename them until all slots are filled)
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Thank you Kranmer, I can play the game with your instruction now. But one more thing, the "original" remix-patcher v2.5.1 has a Ficedula music patch starts with the game, but after i copy Aali opengl driver 0.7.7b, these is no Ficedula music patch, only the speed hack of you appear. I wonder if the things happenned with the Ficedula patch also happen with other patch like limitBreak, choboco race patch, etc then the game may be broken in the future.

And now the game show a message : "libpng error: Read error" but still playable. I don't know what does it mean  :evil:
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well in the file "ff7_opengl.cfg" if you open it with notepad you will see a line that says
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
on this line just remove the # so it says
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
then save the file and that should (hopefully) enable it again.
also the chocobo patch is no longer needed (Aali's driver elimnates the need for chocobo patch and True motion codec) and the 9999 limit break and other patches are usually done on the EXE which Aali's driver doesnt touch so they should be fine.
Also i have never had the "libpng error" before so i cant help there, sorry.

EDIT- LoL looks like Goku7 beat me to it.
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 :'(

thank you for the guide, but the Ficedula music patch still not appear.
and about the errors, i got some more:

1- i got that libpng error every time i get to the world map (ie: after finish a battle)
2- i got another error when i put tifa into the team, each time i encounter a battle, the game prints a message :"error: could not read from file tifa.t09" - But still playable.
3- i got a deadly error at the time i reach junon (after jumping to the top of it with the help of Mr. dolphin), a movie about the highwind showed but in the middle of it , a message showed: "error: could not read from file E:\programs\Squaresoft, inc\Final Fantasy VII\Data\music\wind.wav" . The game was still playable after that but when i go to the "big elevator", it crashed! It should play the "junair_d.avi" instead of crashing, i think.

Please help me T_T
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Did all these errors happen before you installed the latest version of Aali's driver ? (i mean when you first installed the remix patch did the same things happen)
Also if you could post your app.log it might be possible to help you more.
 
Phew, now i found a way to make it through the crashing point. I went to the Ficedula folder and start the ff7music.exe . Then i pressed the button "Run ff7" and well, i now can pass the junair_d movie without any problem. But the error messages i mentioned above still appear (although the game is still playable but i think it's annoying).

I just copied the new opengl files in the download of Kranmer (the one with speed hack) and pasted it to the ff7 folder, let it replace any file it want. after that, i met those errors. May be the files of the opengl driver in remix-patch v2.5.1 was changed and those changes was replaced by the new "fresh" file of opengl v0.7.7b which i pasted into the ff7 folder.

But i don't know it's true or not, just guess.

I hope there will be no more freezing point in the future.

EDIT: those errors did not happen before i copy the new opengl driver

This is the content of my app.log:

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.7b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family 2.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2104
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 800x600, output resolution 800x600, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: No errors.
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library speedhack.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: E:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; rawvideo/null 364x353, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 0.066667, frames: 1
INFO: E:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\sqlogo.avi; mpeg4/mp3 640x480, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 247.466667, frames: 3712
INFO: No errors.
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
ERROR: libpng error: Read Error
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.tim
stop_sound
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
set music volume: 127
WM_CLOSE
-=-=[END OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
Field Quit
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD
 
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Phew, now i found a way to make it through the crashing point. I went to the Ficedula folder and start the ff7music.exe . Then i pressed the button "Run ff7" and well, i now can pass the junair_d movie without any problem. But the error messages i mentioned above still appear (although the game is still playable but i think it's annoying).

I just copied the new opengl files in the download of Kranmer (the one with speed hack) and pasted it to the ff7 folder, let it replace any file it want. after that, i met those errors. May be the files of the opengl driver in remix-patch v2.5.1 was changed and those changes was replaced by the new "fresh" file of opengl v0.7.7b which i pasted into the ff7 folder.

But i don't know it's true or not, just guess.

I hope there will be no more freezing point in the future.

EDIT: those errors did not happen before i copy the new opengl driver
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hm. well the speedhack isnt fully tested so maybe you could try disabling it and seeing if the errors still happen to see if that is the cause.
also you could try going back to 0.7.3 (the one the remix patcher uses) to see what happens.
 
Phew, now i found a way to make it through the crashing point. I went to the Ficedula folder and start the ff7music.exe . Then i pressed the button "Run ff7" and well, i now can pass the junair_d movie without any problem. But the error messages i mentioned above still appear (although the game is still playable but i think it's annoying).

I just copied the new opengl files in the download of Kranmer (the one with speed hack) and pasted it to the ff7 folder, let it replace any file it want. after that, i met those errors. May be the files of the opengl driver in remix-patch v2.5.1 was changed and those changes was replaced by the new "fresh" file of opengl v0.7.7b which i pasted into the ff7 folder.

But i don't know it's true or not, just guess.

I hope there will be no more freezing point in the future.

EDIT: those errors did not happen before i copy the new opengl driver
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hm. well the speedhack isnt fully tested so maybe you could try disabling it and seeing if the errors still happen to see if that is the cause.
also you could try going back to 0.7.3 (the one the remix patcher uses) to see what happens.
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I think the problem is not the speed hack, because i tried disabling it and those error messages still appear! I tried back to the 0.7.3 (the one with v2.5.1 - i'd made a backup of it before update it into 0.7.7b+speedhack) and the game run well without error! May be you could try to install remix-patcher v2.5.1 on your machine and then update the opengl drive to 0.7.7b to see if any problems appears. You are an experienced developer so i think you could see the problem wider than me- a novice user  :cry:. And please post a solution if you find it out. Thank you alot.
 
Phew, now i found a way to make it through the crashing point. I went to the Ficedula folder and start the ff7music.exe . Then i pressed the button "Run ff7" and well, i now can pass the junair_d movie without any problem. But the error messages i mentioned above still appear (although the game is still playable but i think it's annoying).

I just copied the new opengl files in the download of Kranmer (the one with speed hack) and pasted it to the ff7 folder, let it replace any file it want. after that, i met those errors. May be the files of the opengl driver in remix-patch v2.5.1 was changed and those changes was replaced by the new "fresh" file of opengl v0.7.7b which i pasted into the ff7 folder.

But i don't know it's true or not, just guess.

I hope there will be no more freezing point in the future.

EDIT: those errors did not happen before i copy the new opengl driver
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hm. well the speedhack isnt fully tested so maybe you could try disabling it and seeing if the errors still happen to see if that is the cause.
also you could try going back to 0.7.3 (the one the remix patcher uses) to see what happens.
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I think the problem is not the speed hack, because i tried disabling it and those error messages still appear! I tried back to the 0.7.3 (the one with v2.5.1 - i'd made a backup of it before update it into 0.7.7b+speedhack) and the game run well without error! May be you could try to install remix-patcher v2.5.1 on your machine and then update the opengl drive to 0.7.7b to see if any problems appears. You are an experienced developer so i think you could see the problem wider than me- a novice user  :cry:. And please post a solution if you find it out. Thank you alot.
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I already have the remix patch installed in 1 of my FF7 folders (i have 16 different FF7 folders for different mods and settings etc). I just ran it and noticed that the error happens even in the Remix patch (look at your app.log if you dont believe me). It looks like its a missing file, in the latest versions of Aali's driver the msg's show up to notify people have a file missing.
So basicly the error isnt caused by Aali's driver 0.7.7 it just notify's you of the missing file which the old version doesnt.
The only solution that comes to mind is either replace the missing file or make a request to Aali for a disable error msg feature.
 
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Hey Aali!

You said that the newer FF8 Custom Driver will support the German version of the game- I sent you the FF8 files long time ago- is the new version compatible with it now?
 
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It fails to load the wind right before the final battle too.
Probably just another small mistake when creating an awesome feature. ;)
 
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