[FF7 PC] Mod Manager - 7th Heaven (v2.2.3.522 Release) Outdated

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Hi, I just wanted to speak my experience with the loader and ps4 controller. Perhaps some of this info should be moved to the first post?

I added 7th Heaven to Steam, launch it from there, and couldn't get the PS4 controller to work until just recently. I don't use DS4Windows. I don't like key mappers.


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[*]I opened the Control Panel and then the devices section. The old Control Panel.
[*]I connected my DS4 controller to a power plug, not a computer or device.
[*]Clicked the button to add a device.
[*]Put DS4 controller into pair mode (hold share+PS button)
[*]Put the controller down and waited a very long time, while Windows told me it was installing the controller
[*]When finally finished, I went to the Bluetooth config window, unplugged and shut off the controller (Hold PS button for 10 seconds)
[*]I noticed that the Bluetooth config window still said Connected even though the controller was off. I rebooted - save effect.
[*]I pressed the PS button, it instantly connected to Windows 10.
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At this point, the controller worked as though it was made for Windows, with every game except for FF7.

Then it dawned on me that steam may not launch as admin when the system first starts up. I closed 7th Heaven and Steam, ran Steam as admin, launched 7th Heaven through Steam, launched FF7 and the controller worked perfectly.

Then I just had to pick a controller setting in Settings >> Game Launcher Settings >> Options >> Controls

I hope this helps some people.
 
Aaaaand 7H version 2.2.3.522 is released. Have fun! Soon, current 2.0 users (unfortunately not 2.2 beta users) will be prompted to update to the new version when they start 7H. But of course, you can go download it now before you get the prompt!
 
Aaaaand 7H version 2.2.3.522 is released. Have fun! Soon, current 2.0 users (unfortunately not 2.2 beta users) will be prompted to update to the new version when they start 7H. But of course, you can go download it now before you get the prompt!
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Just wana say thanks for the huge effort here! I've just finished a full play through of Sega's New Threat on the 2.2 beta with all of the highest settings and HD textures on. I think I got like one crash throughout it. Unreal.

The previous 2.0 game driver would crash and run out of memory every hour or so. Fair lay to all involved!
 
Thanks! I'm glad things are working well for you! 7H 2.2 battled the crashing on 2 fronts: TrueOdin's FFNx game driver that removed the cache and has better memory management among other stability fixes, and 7H 2.2 includes a modified game EXE that is capable of accessing 4 GB of memory for large HD mods and is also now compatible with Windows DEP (which would cause some users to crash on game load).
 
Sorry if this is something already reported. I checked the FAQ, but couldn't find anything on it...

I installed 2.2.3.522 just now, but when I try to run the game with mods installed (regardless of number of mods or source) about 6 out of 7 times it crashes.

It gets to...

Attempting to inject with EasyHook ...
Failed to inject after max amount of tries (14) ...
Unknown error in injected assembler code.
Failed to launch FF7. View the above log for details.
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And, well, fails to launch FF7. It's fine launching the game with no mods, it's only when it runs the injector that it timesout and crashes.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but got nowhere. I also removed the custom addresses I had in the .var file, still nothing.
 
EasyHook is a huge pain. If it's not one thing, it's another. In 1.x, it was broken all the time for most people (wouldn't launch the game). Updated it for 2.0. In 2.0, it wouldn't load the game's bin files reliably, which would cause issues with UI mods, New Threat, etc. Updated again for 2.2, and it fixed the bin file problem, but now we're back to issues launching the game, although it happens rarely (not many people seem to be affected).

I tried adding a bit more logging on this to see what is going on, so please send me your actual log's entries (the one you posted appears to be copied from the game launcher window, which is not as verbose). Click the status/info bar at the bottom of the main 7H window to open your log. I'm hoping there will be some useful information as to why this is happening or at least more descriptive error messages.

The old trick used in 1.x, which I'm not sure if this would still work/help or not, is to right-click on your ff7.exe, go to properties, compatibility tab, and check the box for 640x480 (don't worry, it doesn't actually force the game to run in that resolution) and for reasons unknown to all, including the EasyHook developer, sometimes is a useful workaround.

Edit: Also, I will add that some folks have experienced this problem, literally changed nothing (according to them) and the problem just went away when they tried weeks later. So, the thought is that something in the environment on the PC can be the cause of the trigger for this problem. The only question is: what? If we can find that out, that would be gold.
 
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Good afternoon, I installed 2.2.3.522 today. Now the frame rate is almost unplayable in both battle and larger town settings. I never had any problems before with 2.0. I am only working with Intel HD Graphics. Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips to get the frame rate back to normal? I turned off the Animations mod, as suggested. Is it possible to revert to 2.0? Thank you very much for looking into this and all your hard work!
 
Good afternoon, I installed 2.2.3.522 today. Now the frame rate is almost unplayable in both battle and larger town settings. I never had any problems before with 2.0. I am only working with Intel HD Graphics. Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips to get the frame rate back to normal? I turned off the Animations mod, as suggested. Is it possible to revert to 2.0? Thank you very much for looking into this and all your hard work!
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7H 2.2 uses the FFNx game driver, which significantly increases performance requirements over the old Aali driver. You can review the suggested requirements in the help documentation: http://7thheaven.rocks/help/getstarted.html#requirements

Some tips you can do to improve performance is you can try changing your graphics options under 7H Settings>Game Driver. Try both the OpenGL (faster, if it works for your card, and DirectX options). Also make sure antialiasing and v-sync are turned OFF. Also turn off anisotropic and linear filtering. Save those options. You may be able to eke out a little more performance if you open the 7H/Resources/Game Driver/Game Driver.cfg file in a text editor and change the below line:
#internal_resolution_scale = 2
to
internal_resolution_scale = 1
Note that you must remove the # at the beginning. Save the file.

If your system doesn't meet the requirements and the above tips don't work for you, you can uninstall 2.2 from control panel and install 2.0 again which does not have as heavy of system requirements. This is why I still leave up the 2.0 version, so folks that have trouble or performance issues can still play the game, but perhaps with a few niceties missing.
 
Thanks for the quick reply! Went back to 2.0 and all problems fixed! :)
 
Yeah. I was  going to send the full thing today after I read your message... and no problem with hooks anymore.
Straight up confused. Still love the launcher, though. It's made the flashbacks and graphic stuff in my game waaay easier to deal with. Keep up the good work!
Sorry it's not screwing up again so I can't send you the report.

...that's an odd thing to be sorry for.
 
Yeah. I was  going to send the full thing today after I read your message... and no problem with hooks anymore.
Straight up confused. Still love the launcher, though. It's made the flashbacks and graphic stuff in my game waaay easier to deal with. Keep up the good work!
Sorry it's not screwing up again so I can't send you the report.

...that's an odd thing to be sorry for.
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Your logs are probably still available unless you reinstalled 7H, because then they are cleared. Check by clicking the status / info bar at the bottom to see if the information from the failures is still there. If not, you can go back to older logs from previous days under your 7th Heaven\7thWorkshop\Logs folder. If you can find the errors that would be great to share just so I have them (this same thing has happened a few times already so I can't ever track down what the issue is).
 
Hi! I have the same issue as ItsDenton! It's weird it didn't happened on 2.0 and it seems kinda random...

I uninstalled and delete everything and start from scratch, Vanilla works no probs, activating any mod gives me that error and it's really random! sometimes it works with 8 or 6 or 3 or X errors, sometimes it works with no errors, sometimes it reaches 14 and just fails, even when using just one mod as in media -> music to original, that's it and with no changes in between whatsoever......

I restarted my PC (2004 "May"update):
-ASUS CROSSHAIR Hero VI WIFI
-AMD R7 1700
-Gigabyte RX 470 4GB (up to date drivers)
-2 x 16GB RAM 2400
-ADATA 256GB M.2 SSD + SEAGATE 4TB HDD

nothing is running apart from the startup programs (AVG FREE, REALTEK HD AUDIO, Windows security, GPU drivers, Wallpaper engine, ASUS RGB Service)

The only change from 2.0 to 2.2 is OPENGL -> D3D11

Of course I remembered the mysterious fix for 1.x, did not need it on 2.0 but tried ir on 2.2 (the FF7.exe compatibility fix you mentioned) and voilá, it worked 3 times in a row, right now I'm testing it before going to sleep

Anyway the log (pre fix) is below: (Can't attach it!!!)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qWgkD270XZt1ckDtjCgGx5h9dSilQgt1?usp=sharing

I work at a hospital so kinda busy xD but if there anything I can do to help just mention it, it just might take a while :P

Cheers!!!
 
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Post compatibility fix= 8 times in a row success! and not a single Easyhook error in sight even with every mod I want on which is almost everything in the catalogue xD... log uploaded, may be a good Idea to add the possible error + fix in the FAQ.

By the way, battle boxes looses transparency after winning a battle half a second before changing the screen and Sega Chief Battle Model Swap and Mouth Texture Replacer both work but it says that the version is 1.01, when it downloads it downloads version 1.00 prompting an update which it fails to download everytime.

just small bugs, thanks for your time!
 
So I have been looking around for a guide, but have not been able to find one. Has anyone here upgraded ver. 2.0 to 2.2?

If so, does it overwrite any configs, mods, settings, or save files?

Is the recommendation to just install a new instance of 7th heaven and then load up your .exe from the new version?

As I said, checked the forums and wiki for instructions, but came up empty!
 
Post compatibility fix= 8 times in a row success! and not a single Easyhook error in sight even with every mod I want on which is almost everything in the catalogue xD... log uploaded, may be a good Idea to add the possible error + fix in the FAQ.

By the way, battle boxes looses transparency after winning a battle half a second before changing the screen and Sega Chief Battle Model Swap and Mouth Texture Replacer both work but it says that the version is 1.01, when it downloads it downloads version 1.00 prompting an update which it fails to download everytime.

just small bugs, thanks for your time!
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That's not a bug, but would be an oops on Sega Chief's part. His mod that actually downloads should match the version info listed in his catalog. If it doesn't it can trigger a condition like this, but it is up to him to fix.

Regarding the old compatibility fix, I'm glad it worked, but there's no rhyme or reason for that. It's a mystery. Unfortunately, the log didn't provide any additional info as I'd hoped. Something in your environment is not allowing or blocking the injection to work. My first thoughts go to security or A/V software, or non-typical or non-default settings in your Windows install, but what, I don't know yet. Of course "no mods"/vanilla would work fine because there's no injection occurring there. Injecting the 7H wrapper is what allows for the magic of the mods to work (and is only needed when running with mods, obviously).
So I have been looking around for a guide, but have not been able to find one. Has anyone here upgraded ver. 2.0 to 2.2?

If so, does it overwrite any configs, mods, settings, or save files?

Is the recommendation to just install a new instance of 7th heaven and then load up your .exe from the new version?

As I said, checked the forums and wiki for instructions, but came up empty!
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On the first page, it says you can upgrade to 2.2 over 2.0 and install to the same folder. No guide is needed as it's just a simple regular install. However, for compatibility and stability reasons, the game driver settings and your 7H settings are reset and that's because of the switch in game drivers for 2.2 as well as big changes to settings from 2.0. It's better to reset than to break/crash the program. Setting these up only takes a few seconds, and most people don't change much from the 7h defaults, if at all, with the exception of the game driver. Your installed mod library and profiles (mod settings) DO stay intact however. 7H has not and never will touch your save game files.

If you're real touchy about it, you can always install 7H 2.2 to a new folder (but your mod settings will not be migrated over--you would need to manually copy over your profiles from 2.0) and keep 2.0 in its own folder so nothing changes with your 2.0 install. They can live side by side. But that would give you the opportunity to set up everything in 2.2 as you see fit to match 2.0 until you're perfectly happy with it before (if you want) deleting your 2.0 folder.
 
Post compatibility fix= 8 times in a row success! and not a single Easyhook error in sight even with every mod I want on which is almost everything in the catalogue xD... log uploaded, may be a good Idea to add the possible error + fix in the FAQ.

By the way, battle boxes looses transparency after winning a battle half a second before changing the screen and Sega Chief Battle Model Swap and Mouth Texture Replacer both work but it says that the version is 1.01, when it downloads it downloads version 1.00 prompting an update which it fails to download everytime.

just small bugs, thanks for your time!
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Battle boxes isn't a 7h bug, its an ESUI by design implementation in how to toggle the transparency in and out of battles, at a future date it may be improved, but it is this way for now.
 
It started glitching again for me... so I've got the log, but pretty much it just says it's an;

15:59:40|WARN|SeventhHeaven.Classes.GameLauncher|   received errors: STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR: Unknown error in injected assembler code. (Code: 5);  ...
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I don't have anywhere to upload it, but it basically printed that all 14 attempts and then;

15:59:44|ERROR|SeventhHeaven.Classes.GameLauncher|Unknown error in injected assembler code.
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In the meantime, could someone link me to the "compatibility fix" that worked for Snake2208 is, please? If that has a shot at working, it'd be nice to try  :)
 
Thanks for the update!  Made sure to donate as a thank you.

Does this update do anything to help alleviate the memory issue that makes the game crash with graphical/texture mods on?
 
On the first page, it says you can upgrade to 2.2 over 2.0 and install to the same folder. No guide is needed as it's just a simple regular install. However, for compatibility and stability reasons, the game driver settings and your 7H settings are reset and that's because of the switch in game drivers for 2.2 as well as big changes to settings from 2.0. It's better to reset than to break/crash the program. Setting these up only takes a few seconds, and most people don't change much from the 7h defaults, if at all, with the exception of the game driver. Your installed mod library and profiles (mod settings) DO stay intact however. 7H has not and never will touch your save game files.

If you're real touchy about it, you can always install 7H 2.2 to a new folder (but your mod settings will not be migrated over--you would need to manually copy over your profiles from 2.0) and keep 2.0 in its own folder so nothing changes with your 2.0 install. They can live side by side. But that would give you the opportunity to set up everything in 2.2 as you see fit to match 2.0 until you're perfectly happy with it before (if you want) deleting your 2.0 folder.
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Thanks so much for the explanation!!
 
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