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

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Your card should support OGL2 (the backend of Aali's driver) I sadly only owned the ATI cards just before your generation (Radeon 9800) and i had terrible issues with it.. only thing i could think of is try updating the drivers. Which you stated you'd not like to do.

It does support Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering. I use 32xQ and 16x respectively.
It can run at fullscreen in battles only, For now at least. The Mighty Wizard Aali will fix that soon i'm sure :P

Wish i could help you out more. but hope this was useful
 
Ok. so I'm having some troubles now that I got this and the last update to the driver running, Every time the battle swirl appears and every time I summon a summon that affects the texture of the battle ground I get an error report that says Error:Invalid GL value, And whatever was affected just turns white.. which makes me a sad panda....

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Just as a note, I am not running multiple FFVII's, That's me copy/pasting into MS paint...
Also, the first  Pic is actually Satan Slam if you couldn't tell the other two are Alexander. So far I've seen this affect these, Phoenix, and Titan's animations.
 
Your card should support OGL2 (the backend of Aali's driver) I sadly only owned the ATI cards just before your generation (Radeon 9800) and i had terrible issues with it.. only thing i could think of is try updating the drivers. Which you stated you'd not like to do.

It does support Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering. I use 32xQ and 16x respectively.
It can run at fullscreen in battles only, For now at least. The Mighty Wizard Aali will fix that soon i'm sure :P

Wish i could help you out more. but hope this was useful
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So do you have an Nvidia card now or ATI?  Are you able to enable AA and AF in the Control Panel?

Also is Aali going to be able to make the battles full screen with the menu at the bottom of the screen?
 
Ok. so I'm having some troubles now that I got this and the last update to the driver running, Every time the battle swirl appears and every time I summon a summon that affects the texture of the battle ground I get an error report that says Error:Invalid GL value, And whatever was affected just turns white.. which makes me a sad panda....
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Let me guess, you also have a message about missing NPOT textures in app.log? This happens if your card doesn't support this feature and you render in a resolution that is not a multiple of 640x480.
 
Hi Aali, few small issues:

Credit screen and game menu seem to be at 60 fps when 30fps is preferable.  It seems the credits at the start of game are too fast compared to PSX?  The menu is updating so fast that the movement of the cursor is too sensitive.
 
So...How do I use this? I mean, how do I get it to work?
There's like no read me or any directions, and I haven't seen
seen any around here either. Help would be much appreciated.
 
hi aali how come I cant register your newest driver? I am running on windows 7 64 bit.

You said I need to make sure EAXUnified.exe is really installed but there is no such file in newest version

I try start game after extracting the files FF7 folder and configuring ff7 opengl file. Still It looks like its only the default resolution i used 1680x1050
 
@Cloud1000 and @Vincent Valentine
EAXUnified.exe is for FF8 and NOT FF7,
After extracting the files to your FF7 folder then run "FF7CONFIG.EXE" and on the Graphics page select "Custom Driver" then edit FF7config.cfg to the settings you want then save it and run the game. Check app.log to see if the driver is loading.
 
Correct Kranmer! In other words:
http://backup.ninjaloot.se/share/ff7_opengl-0.7.5b.zip

Installation
1. Extract the archive into your ff7 or ff8 folder
FF7:
2a. Run the modified FF7Config, pick custom driver in the list of renderers, you should get confirmation that the driver is working.
3a. Change your settings in ff7_opengl.cfg
FF8:
2b. Make sure EAX is properly installed (run EAXUnified.exe to install it if unsure)
3b. Change your settings in ff8_opengl.cfg
4. Play!
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@Cloud1000 and @Vincent Valentine
EAXUnified.exe is for FF8 and NOT FF7,
After extracting the files to your FF7 folder then run "FF7CONFIG.EXE" and on the Graphics page select "Custom Driver" then edit FF7config.cfg to the settings you want then save it and run the game. Check app.log to see if the driver is loading.
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Thanks alot it worked. I have also downloaded
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/5530/

and Put in ff7 directory folder movies.
 However I launch FF7 there is no video in beginning screen completly black and there is error message saying skipping frames. ect. Also I try make new game to get new opening. And screen completly black till you start the game after the train stops. Only sound.

Is there some sort of instructions ya can give me to get it to work? I got ff7 1.02 patch installed and latest Aali's driver.
 
@Cloud1000 and @Vincent Valentine
EAXUnified.exe is for FF8 and NOT FF7,
After extracting the files to your FF7 folder then run "FF7CONFIG.EXE" and on the Graphics page select "Custom Driver" then edit FF7config.cfg to the settings you want then save it and run the game. Check app.log to see if the driver is loading.
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Thanks alot it worked. I have also downloaded
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/5530/

and Put in ff7 directory folder movies.
 However I launch FF7 there is no video in beginning screen completly black and there is error message saying skipping frames. ect. Also I try make new game to get new opening. And screen completly black till you start the game after the train stops. Only sound.

Is there some sort of instructions ya can give me to get it to work? I got ff7 1.02 patch installed and latest Aali's driver.
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Well first did the original movies work alright for you ? (before the mods)
Also is your PC powerfull enough to handle those size movies ? (try playing them in Windows Media Player or somthing like that and see if they play smoothly)
Also try posting your App.log and that will give us more info on whats going wrong.


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Also i have just noticed that the post on the first page still seems linked to 0.7.5 though.Aali's driver 0.7.5 is outdated. 0.7.6 is the latest version here
https://www.ff7catalog.com/posts/78052/
(i have been using 0.7.6 since it came out but i havent checked the first page of this thread in a long time)
 
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I am 100 % positive my PC can handle the movies. I have the latest patch 0.7.6b. How can I post app.log? the game doesnt crash It just goes black. I have the cutscenes from https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/5930/

they work with his mod. but I want to be able to run my FF7 with the default exe. Not with a bat file.

I think he got it from grimmy too. So I dont understand why It doesnt work
 
The App.log still appears every time you run the game even if it doesnt crash,
Just run the game, get to where the problems start, Then close the game and go to your FF7 installed folder.
App.log should be there. post that here.
 
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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.6bINFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US EnglishINFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8800 GTX/PCI/SSE2 3.2.0INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detectedINFO: Found swap_control extensionINFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1680x1050, output resolution 1400x1050, internal resolution 1920x1440INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing pathINFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loadedINFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.LOCK UNLOCK TEST MATRIX INITIALIZE INITIALIZE DD/D3D END ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfginitializing sound...creating dsound primary bufferreading audio fileloading static soundssound initializedINITIALIZING MIDI...selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,midi data type: GENERAL MIDIusing midi data file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgpmidiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffffMIDI INITIALIZEDset music volume: 127MIDI set volume: 127100% of 127 = 127set music volume: 127MIDI set master volume: 100MIDI set volume: 127100% of 127 = 127Entering MAINExiting MAINSTART OF CREDITS!!!INFO: G:\FF7\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 2, skipped: 1, lag: 254.666667)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 3, skipped: 2, lag: 198.000000)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 5, skipped: 4, lag: 88.666667)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 9, skipped: 8, lag: 5.000000)set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 17, skipped: 16, lag: 27.666667)MIDI stop - OKGLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 33, skipped: 32, lag: 4.000000)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 65, skipped: 64, lag: 4.666667)MIDI stop - OKGLITCH: skipped 74 framesEND OF CREDITS!!!Entering MAINset music volume: 127MIDI set volume: 127100% of 127 = 127Exiting MAINSTART OF MENU SYSTEM!!!ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save01.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save02.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save03.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save04.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save05.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save06.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save07.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save08.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save09.ff7END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!Entering MAINExiting MAINField StartMIDI play: 2reading midi file: OB.midcurrent volume: 127MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!GLITCH: Something tried to use hardware accelerated lighting, expect funky-looking modelsEntering MAINExiting MAINSTART OF MENU SYSTEM!!!END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!Entering MAINExiting MAINField StartField QuitEntering MAINMIDI play: 2song is already playing...Exiting MAINEntering FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRLExitting FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRLSwirl sound_effect1stop_soundEnd of Swirl sound_effect1Entering FRAME_QUIT SWIRLExitting FRAME_QUIT SWIRLEntering MAINExiting MAIN[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE[BATTLE] Scene# 322[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE
 
well from looking at your app.log i cant see for sure why the movies are skipping but i would recommend trying 2 things
1st if titeguy3's patch worked for you use the same version of the driver that he used (0.7.3)
2nd try lowering the res the game is running at and disabling Fancy Transparency, Try running it at 1280x960 in a window just to see if the same things happen
 
I went and played a little it seems all movies are skipped "black screen" Also after the skipped movie plays and it goes back to game there is no sound. Only till you enter a new area the sound starts again. but that could be problem with my FF7 music I dont know. I have same settings he used on his installer. And it never happened with his.

here is applog.


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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.6bINFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US EnglishINFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8800 GTX/PCI/SSE2 3.2.0INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detectedINFO: Found swap_control extensionINFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1680x1050, output resolution 1400x1050, internal resolution 1920x1440INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing pathINFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loadedINFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.LOCK UNLOCK TEST MATRIX INITIALIZE INITIALIZE DD/D3D END initializing sound...creating dsound primary bufferreading audio fileloading static soundssound initializedINITIALIZING MIDI...selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,midi data type: GENERAL MIDIusing midi data file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgpmidiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffffMIDI INITIALIZEDset music volume: 127MIDI set volume: 127100% of 127 = 127set music volume: 127MIDI set master volume: 100MIDI set volume: 127100% of 127 = 127Entering MAINExiting MAINSTART OF CREDITS!!!INFO: G:\FF7\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 2, skipped: 1, lag: 155.666667)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 3, skipped: 2, lag: 99.000000)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 5, skipped: 4, lag: 8.666667)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 9, skipped: 8, lag: 5.000000)GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 17, skipped: 16, lag: 2.666667)set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60GLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 33, skipped: 32, lag: 2.000000)MIDI stop - OKGLITCH: video playback is lagging behind, skipping frames (frame #: 65, skipped: 64, lag: 4.666667)MIDI stop - OKGLITCH: skipped 81 framesEND OF CREDITS!!!Entering MAINset music volume: 127MIDI set volume: 127100% of 127 = 127Exiting MAINSTART OF MENU SYSTEM!!!ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save01.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save02.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save03.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save04.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save05.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save06.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save07.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save08.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save09.ff7END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!Entering MAINExiting MAINField StartMIDI play: 2reading midi file: OB.midcurrent volume: 127MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!GLITCH: Something tried to use hardware accelerated lighting, expect funky-looking modelsEntering MAINExiting MAINSTART OF MENU SYSTEM!!!WM_CLOSE END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!Field QuitMIDI stop - OKresetting MIDI driver volume - OKUNINITIALIZE DD END UNINITIALIZE DD
 
I'm pretty sure Aali is well aware of the problems playing movies.  Just be patient and I'm sure he will fix it when he has time.  Until then, use the original movies.
 
Hi,

I am using Aalis driver and it is greate, jsut two little probs.

First, in Field, and only in Field, I have a black bar on the lower end of my display. I do not remember that to happen with the original and it does not happen with FMVs or in battle.

Second, is there any way for aali to disable the screensaver while playing?
I am using a gamepad so after 20min my screensaver kicks in.
Right now I enable and disable the screensaver in windows but if you forgett to do that...


BTW: I am using the newest driver from aali on an HD3650 with 1280x1024. Keep aspekt ratio is disabled.


with best regards


p90
 
i get the same problem with the black bar, i think it has to do with the full screen battle option, try turning it off, although i just ignore it since it's not that noticeable.
 
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