Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8 [v.1-.7.6]

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Scanning lines? You mean tearing?

Your graphics driver is ultimately in control of what happens to vsync and triple buffering, I can only *request* vsync and even that is not a core feature of OpenGL (and thus does not have to be supported)
 
Scanning lines? You mean tearing?

Your graphics driver is ultimately in control of what happens to vsync and triple buffering, I can only *request* vsync and even that is not a core feature of OpenGL (and thus does not have to be supported)
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yeah, tearing sorry.  I think I am spending too much time in editing software/TV editing etc hahaha

:P

np, was just lettin you know :)  It may still be recommended in ur help file to tell the person not to use triple buffering....
 
Aali good news! (i hope) me and someone else on the forums are starting to make new FF7 models, and we are going to use a lighting value of 1!! i remember you having an issue with this, So hopefully it will help you out
 
Dumb question, but does this driver fix things to make the "chocobo patch" obsolete?
 
Known problems
Some very minor graphical glitches.
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Like which?

Dumb question, but does this driver fix things to make the "chocobo patch" obsolete?
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Good question. Which patches have become obsolete?

Thank you for your effort.
 
Some things just don't look like they're supposed to, mostly blending issues. For example, in the temple of the ancients scene when you see tseng get killed, you're not semi-transparent, things like that.

The config file clearly states which issues it will fix if the crash_fixes option is on (which is the default), among those the chocobo crash. You can still apply these patches without causing any problems though.
 
will transparency be fixed?

also....


Using your driver....should be totally correct, if there are any sync errors its youtube or fraps fault.
 
It may be fixed, in due time.. it's very difficult to find out whats causing it and even if I do, it's just as difficult (if not more difficult) to come up with a fix that doesn't mess up anything else :-)
 
well, you have done a great job already....

the alternative is forced full screen mediocrity.  So well done!
 
Too bad your driver doesn't work with no cd versions. It's kind of lame to write a tool that works only with legit copy while the tool itself is 100% illegal... same goes for modding this game.
 
Too bad your driver doesn't work with no cd versions. It's kind of lame to write a tool that works only with legit copy while the tool itself is 100% illegal... same goes for modding this game.
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it is lame to write things for ungrateful arse holes.  You go and make it.
 
Hey Aali, I haven't quite got my game back up and running yet.   I'm still trying to get all the patches I'll need / want, and I came across grimmy307's FMV replacements. So on to my question.

With your new driver, is it possible that he could make movies at a higher resolution than 320x240 (or whatever it is) and your driver allow it to play properly?  I know you can add support for other movie formats... but what about resolution?
 
it is lame to write things for ungrateful arse holes.  You go and make it.
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No thanks, however I'd like to see you do anything in 3D then ;)
 
Hey Aali, I haven't quite got my game back up and running yet.   I'm still trying to get all the patches I'll need / want, and I came across grimmy307's FMV replacements. So on to my question.

With your new driver, is it possible that he could make movies at a higher resolution than 320x240 (or whatever it is) and your driver allow it to play properly?  I know you can add support for other movie formats... but what about resolution?
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It can play any resolution correctly already, as long as the aspect is the same as the original movie it'll work just fine.
 
Too bad your driver doesn't work with no cd versions. It's kind of lame to write a tool that works only with legit copy while the tool itself is 100% illegal... same goes for modding this game.
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There is nothing illegal about this driver. Distributing and using it shouldn't be illegal anywhere (it does not contain anything Squeenix or Eidos could claim as their own), there's no EULA and my country doesn't have any insane laws about reverse engineering.

You shouldn't talk about this at all on this forum (because it has been done to death and you wont change our minds) and you know it.
 
However there are legal precedents when the reverse-engineering is aimed at interoperability of file formats and protocols.[1][2] In the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act grants a safe harbor to reverse engineer software for the purposes of interoperability with other software.[3][4] In addition, many countries specifically permit a program to be copied for the purposes of reverse engineering.

1. Sega vs Accolade, 1992
2. Sony vs Connectix, 2000
3. 17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201(f).
4. WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act

(This text was written about Skype protocol in wiki, but I think it could be used in this case)
 
Really, it doesn't work with No-CDs? Because I'm not using the patch by The Saint for this very reason. I still have my original copy from the 90's, and there's no way in hell I'll play a game in the PC with a CD in 2009. I'm doing the same thing with FF8, bought the game back in the 90's and playing with No-CD nowadays. The FF8 laucher DOES work with the No-CD version though...

Guess I'll have to stick with standard resolution then.
 
It doesn't work with No-CD cracks because I don't want to support those modified exe's.

Either way, FF7's cdcheck is very forgiving and you certainly don't need the actual CDs in a real CD-ROM drive to play, so I don't see the problem.
 
Thankfully my friend seemed to have ff7 on cds so I borrewed it from him, however new problem arises. When I try launching the game (1.02 original exe, patched with lessdebug for FF7 music and yamp patches - transparent windows, minigames, limitbreaking) but the game crashes right after starting, all I get to see is black screen for like 1-2 seconds and then it crashes to desktop. I don't know what the reason could be but is it possible that it's because of my laptop? It doesn't really have a graphic card, it uses Intel GMA945 (A graphic accelerator, which doesn't even have pixel shader 2.0)

Here are 2 screenshots that I took:
http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo176/xxSchrodingerxx/pic1.jpg
http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo176/xxSchrodingerxx/pic2.jpg
 
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Aali....

is it possible to make the game pan more smooth?

I have noticed that when the game is panning side to side (in the field, not on world map or movies), that it jitters.  I do not think this is anything to do with my setup, it seems tpo be a limitation of the game...?

and it did it without ur drivers too....
 
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