[FF7PC-98] Higher Resolution (v1.00)(Discontinued, use Aali's driver)

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I understand the... delicacy of the situation. In one last attempt, I've modified my posts. Now am I any different than any given person coming here and asking for help?

I'll understand if I still can't be helped, but I'm not sure how I'm different from someone else coming here pretending that they have a legal copy, but still asking questions.

As far as legality in my case, anyone's allowed a digital backup of software they own, so I have a backup because my copy is scratched. I still own the license to a copy of the game.
 
Yes, but the "ultima edition" is not a digital back up.

Thing is, besides the legality issue, DLed copies of ff7 are hacked in such a way that it changes everything (IE, the code in teh exe), so diagnosing the problem would be different than diagnosing a problem with a legal copy.  In your case, the high-res patch may have accidentaly corrupted the exe.  I suggest reverting to the back up =/
 
Hey The Saint, I also have a save at the Great Glacier/Geia Cliffs area, when you are climbing the cliffs, you're supposed to press [Switch] repeatedly to warm yourself, I see the text box come up saying temperature, but once again no characters/numbers show up in the box to tell me what my body temp. is. This one like the dialogue boxes in junon are not that important as you can still climb the cliffs without seeing your body temp. Just keep tapping [switch] repeatedly every time you come to a new spot on the cliff side. Just thought I'd inform you of that one as well. Thanks man. :)

EDIT: Just found 2 other instances that I declare somewhat important. Both happen in the Gold Saucer, the first I noticed is from the guy that you can trade your Gil for GP with. I can't see how much gil or how much GP I'm purchasing at one time. And the other which is more important to me, is I can't see the handicaps in the Battle Arena. The frame of the dial will come up, but I can't see any of the Handicaps listed on the dial. Thanks for looking :)

EDIT 2: One more instance that I've come across as well, is when trying to feed the chocobos in your stable greens, the amount does not show up as well.
 
Well, you're probably right, EmperorSteele... Ultima is intended to be altered for XP. Doesn't seem to be anything I can do.

As for legality, Ultima is simply the game, modified with extras. It would be no different if I installed the game from my cds, modified it myself and then downloaded some extras. It's still the same game content, it's just been modified. But I understand it's not a clear line, for sure.

Perhaps I'll see if a friend of mine still has his original CDs and see what I can do with them.

Still... if anyone has a suggestion...?
 
whats modified in the ultima edition, ive read lots of talk abotu it but i dotn kwnow hat it is?/
 
Well, you're probably right, EmperorSteele... Ultima is intended to be altered for XP. Doesn't seem to be anything I can do.

As for legality, Ultima is simply the game, modified with extras. It would be no different if I installed the game from my cds, modified it myself and then downloaded some extras. It's still the same game content, it's just been modified. But I understand it's not a clear line, for sure.

Perhaps I'll see if a friend of mine still has his original CDs and see what I can do with them.

Still... if anyone has a suggestion...?
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All I can think of with your problem Kai, is your monitor may not support the resolution of 1280x960? Your monitor has to atleast be 17" to support any 1280 pixel resolution. Just a thought, good luck. :)
 
Thanks, but I have a 17IN monitor with max res of 1280x1024, so I don't think that's the problem. But I'll try a fresh install from the actual CDs (if they aren't too scratched) and try and mod that.

To answer your question, Ultima, from my understanding, is simply FF7 but premodded for XP. I'm not sure what mods they used (likely the basic FF7XP mod) and it is pre-updated to v1.02. But it is, of course, illegal to obtain unless you own the original copy of Final Fantasy 7 for PC.
 
Although your monitor is 17", that doesn't gaurantee for certain that it can support a resolution of 1280x960. Just to fully eliminate that being the issue, go into your display properties and set the monitor to 1280x960 and apply. If the desktop reappears than that resolution is supported, if it doesn't show up, than that's your problem :)
 
Ah, hehe. You got me on that one ^_^. I didn't think that in-between resolutions, as such, might not be available. Though I checked and the res is fully available.

EDIT: Well, I tried the mod with my original copy of FF7 (from the CDs) and it works great. So sorry to bother everyone, I shouldn't have assumed that it wasn't the fault of the Ultima Edition. Much thanks!

Couple Qs though, is FF7 in 32bit color default now? And if I apply AA or FSAA, will I still get text errors in menus/dialogue like I usually do?
 
If you'd read the thread, you'd know that fsaa and af have been fixedified =)  Note: af doesn't do squat for ff7)
 
a patch high resolution is functionnal with a french version of Final Fantasy 7 ?
 
Well, some modder's definition of "fixed" is different than others. Many people would consider stability w/ AA "fixed", even if the text was screwed up, so I was just checking.
 
Well, some modder's definition of "fixed" is different than others. Many people would consider stability w/ AA "fixed", even if the text was screwed up, so I was just checking.
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There are still some issues with this patch, for it's still considered to be in a "beta" format. You'll see the horizon doesn't exactly render correctly, and if you read a couple of my posts from this page, you'll see that some characters don't show up in the dialogue boxes (see picture above for details). I'm still using it even though, the game looks so beautiful with the FSAA at 8x :)
 
Another update.
The timer for the safe and the gaea cliffs are fixed now.
Also, the textures for damage values in battles are also fixed.
Some of the textures in battles are fixed now, not all.
 
Another update.
The timer for the safe and the gaea cliffs are fixed now.
Also, the textures for damage values in battles are also fixed.
Some of the textures in battles are fixed now, not all.
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Downloading now. Thank you for your quick update man. I didn't expect it to be done this fast, I very much appreciate it :)

Update: Thank you very much Saint, It works flawlessly :) Great Job!

Update #2: The slots in the battle square showing your Handicap still do not appear. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Also, damage numbers are very big this time around in comparison to what they were in the last version. It just caught me off guard as they battle damage values appeared very small before now they really pop out :).
 
I was wondering, since manually re-making the backgrounds takes way too much work, wouldn't it be possibly to use extract them, apply a 2X SAI filter on them and then putting them back in the game-files?

I  :love: your work saint! It makes FF7 so much better.
 
At the moment, no editor actually extracts the field file backgrounds properly enough for import / export purposes. I'll have to do it with the engine manually.

Anyway, here's another release for users that want full screen 1280x1024 support, and I've included jedwin's chocobo patch so you guys don't have to patch the exe a 2nd time.
 
At the moment, no editor actually extracts the field file backgrounds properly enough for import / export purposes. I'll have to do it with the engine manually.

Anyway, here's another release for users that want full screen 1280x1024 support, and I've included jedwin's chocobo patch so you guys don't have to patch the exe a 2nd time.
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Wow, you're able to get 1280x1024? I thought that wasn't possible for you to do, as 1024 isn't a direct multiple of 320? I'm applying it now to see the difference :)
 
He adds a black bar at the bottom of the screen to make it fit =)

Also, i've noticed something, saint:  your program makes a backup of ff7.exe.  When i revert to that backup, the patch can no longer patch that backup (after i take out the .bak, obviously), saying the crc32 check failed, so i have to go and reinstall the regular 1.02, thus kind of negating the whole purpose of the backup =/
 
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