FF VII Not Working on High-Res

[neobahamut]

Hi Everyone, I'm new here. I just would like to ask several questions. Recently, one of my friends sell his FF VII PC to me. I didn't know either the copy is legit or not. But it came out with 4CDs [1 Disc for Installation, and 3 Disc for Playing]. I've installed and work smoothly. I'm trying to make it work with Aali's OpenGL Drivers, After I patched it, everytime I started up ff7.exe [Path: C:/Program Files/Squaresoft Inc./Final Fantasy VII/ff7.exe], the screen just flash and game even didn't start. Could you help me to resolve this.

Thanks

 

[Kudistos Megistos]

It might be pretty obvious whether your copy of FF7 is legit or not.

PROTIP: if the CDs are unprinted and have something written on them with a pen, like this, they're not legit ;D

Anyway, have you installed the FF7 1.02 patch? If not, download it here. The custom graphics driver is supposed to be used with a patched FF7.exe

BTW, the 1.02 patch is official and legal; it's made by Squaresoft themselves (or Eidos, I can't remember). There's another patch going around called either the 1.4 patch, the XP patch or the animevamp patch. Do not use it: it changes important system files and is generally very bad.

 

[neobahamut]

It might be pretty obvious whether your copy of FF7 is legit or not.

PROTIP: if the CDs are unprinted and have something written on them with a pen, like this, they're not legit ;D

Anyway, have you installed the FF7 1.02 patch? If not, download it here. The custom graphics driver is supposed to be used with a patched FF7.exe

BTW, the 1.02 patch is official and legal; it's made by Squaresoft themselves (or Eidos, I can't remember). There's another patch going around called either the 1.4 patch, the XP patch or the animevamp patch. Do not use it: it changes important system files and is generally very bad.

Well to be sure the CDs I have right now doesn't look like that. There's Final Fantasy VII print at the above and Squaresoft logo. I'm not sure whether this copies are original one. Here's the CDs, I took it a while ago. And yes, I've installed 1.02 Patch.

 

[Tekkie.X]

They do seem to be the legit CDs, from the EA Classics release.

Not sure why this has 5 CDs, but the artwork matches.


As for the problem, look in the install directory for app.log, open it with a text editor like notepad or wordpad, paste it up here and we can have a look as it should give us an idea as to what's wrong.

 

[neobahamut]

Hi, Ya, My friends bought it a while ago, and it seems he didn't have any interest on RPG Games, so they sell it to me. And its true, thats the cover I have match with the photo above. It's came from EA Classics.

As for for the configuration file, I will post here later, as I need to re-installed my Windows, and see whether this will solve the problems.

Thanks

 

[neobahamut]

Hi, I managed to do clean installation for my Windows XP, and now the problem getting worse. Each time I'm entering Battle scene, the music played first and I have to wait for 10 seconds, before the screen changed. I'm out of luck, I've been trying to re-installed FF VII for many times, and the problem remain the same. Is there anything I can do to make solve this problem, as the Aali's driver I managed to get it worked, I also recently purchased my FF VII Disc from my other friends. This time the CDs come from Eidos. Thanks for your helps.