FF7 Crashes on First Battle

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Hi.  I signed up a few hours ago after lurking around the forum.  Read the stickies, rules, etc.  I'm currently trying to find a fix for a rather annoying problem that I've been experiencing with FF7 (not ultima edition, trust me).

So, to the point.  I load up FF7, and select 'New Game'.  The intro movie plays fine, and I get to the train scene ok.  But when the two blue soldiers run out and the first battle starts, whenever anyone attacks, or when I select the 'Attack' command, the game crashes with a generic Windows error message "An exception was generated at (address).  Click OK to terminate the program".  It also crashes if I press the menu button before the battle.

Technical:

Mods Installed
v1.02 official patch
YAMP
NPC Reconstruction Project
Note: I tried running FF7 without any mods installed...didn't help.

Computer Specifications
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU @2.93GHz
RAM: 382 MB (sucks, I know)


I've also tried this: https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/1430/

That should be all the information that's needed...Thanks in advance, and let me know if you need to know anything more.
 
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Okay, that solves the crash.  The issue I have now is that when I use that driver, the FPS drops to about 5, which makes the game practically unplayable.

Any other options?
 
Upgrade your ram and get Windows 7.   Vista can't even run with less than 1Gb
 
Yeah, do what obesebear said.

384MB of RAM isn't nearly enough nowadays; fortunately, RAM is cheap and you should be able to get 4GB for $100 or 2GB for $50. Find out what kind RAM is compatible with your processor and motherboard and buy some.

Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).
 
Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).
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I suspect he has a dual core pentium 4, based on that name. Of course, there's no way ordinary people can (or would) overclock a Pentium 2 to 2.93GHz.
 
Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).
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I suspect he has a dual core pentium 4, based on that name. Of course, there's no way ordinary people can (or would) overclock a Pentium 2 to 2.93GHz.
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I see. I'm afraid that I'm not so au fait with hardware from before the mid-2000s ;D
 
I think the problem here is the GPU and Vista, not the CPU.
I'm pretty sure even an MX440 with Windows XP would be able to run FF7 @ 800x600 with a stable frame rate with that much RAM easily.
 
Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).
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I suspect he has a dual core pentium 4, based on that name. Of course, there's no way ordinary people can (or would) overclock a Pentium 2 to 2.93GHz.
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I rechecked it...sorry, it is a Pentium 4.  My mistake.
 
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