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

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That looks like the first release version, Square-Eidos (SE was inevitable) released that and the platinum release. I own both, I thought I lost the original black disc release but I found it. Now I have 2 barely used FFVII PC games! Yay!!!!!!
 
Perfect, saint =)  Now all you need to do is optimize the code better for the fmvs, fix those quarter-screen backgrounds and this thing is done! =D

granted, those are probably the HARD things, but, you know, only 2 things left to do =)

edit, good luck with the move =)
 
Yup, just what I thought. The first release version. Is there a difference between the first and platinum releases?
 
Oh thats nice!
I may have to search ebay for that type of copy...

Thanks for the pictures, Much appreciated
 
Just something to note, though I doubt it'll be fixed, since it's something that's probably pretty uncommon

... this patch does not work for widescreens at all. On the right edge there's a kind of matrix-esque floating texture (which doesn't intersect the actual game-play area) and it goes too far below the edge of the screen at the ottom (about halfway into the combat menus)

I've got to run but if it's wanted I'll post screenshots later.

again, I know this is probably pretty uncommon (I'm playing on a laptop) so no worries, and kudos for making it work for normal PCs!
 
If you could provide me a picture, or a screenshot, I might be able to help.
Also, if you could tell me the closest resolution which is native to your aspect ratio, then I could pad it out on with black bars.
 
Yup, just what I thought. The first release version. Is there a difference between the first and platinum releases?
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There is no difference as far as most of the game is concerned (installs the same stuff, contents on disc 1, 2, and 3 are the same), but, the Platinum install disc has some patches from Eidos's site in the "Updates" folder (the Riva/TNT, Cyrix, and movie patch).
 
If you could provide me a picture, or a screenshot, I might be able to help.
Also, if you could tell me the closest resolution which is native to your aspect ratio, then I could pad it out on with black bars.
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Here's a literal photograph of the screen (printscrn gave me a completely normal image, so I had to use my camera :P)... The native resolution of my monitor is 1440 x 900 which I somehow think isn't too common (hence my earlier comment that I doubted it would be fixed)

Thanks a mil for hearing me out... it's cool to see people actively working on a game this old (but hey, it's still good!)
 
I have a suspicion that your monitor just doesn't support the 1280x960 resolution and is therefore choosing the next best.
Do me a favour and list all the resolutions that your monitor supports. (The ones that appear in your display properties)
 
If it appears that your monitor does support 1280x960, try switching to it and see if you have the same problem with your Windows desktop.  :-P
 
I have a suspicion that your monitor just doesn't support the 1280x960 resolution and is therefore choosing the next best.
Do me a favour and list all the resolutions that your monitor supports. (The ones that appear in your display properties)
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It supports 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x768, 1280x800, 1280x1024 (I guess this is where the problem lies?) 1440x900... any higher and it starts needing to scroll to accomodate the large desktop (1600x1200, 1792x1344, 1800x1440, 1920x1080, 120x1200, 1920x1440 and 2048x1536)
 
Did you try the 1280*1024 resoultion patch?

EDIT (wow, a day later, haha):  My friend has a widescreen Dell XPS (1900*1220) and it seems to work great.  I'd recommend giving it a try. :)
 
Did you try the 1280*1024 resoultion patch?

EDIT (wow, a day later, haha):  My friend has a widescreen Dell XPS (1900*1220) and it seems to work great.  I'd recommend giving it a try. :)
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What the Dell or the resolution? :P

And yeah I did try the patch and it doesn't work... I get the same problem.
 
Hi there!
I'm kinda new to all this FF7 Pc stuff..
But anyway, I'm having some problems with this resolution patch of yours.. You see when I apply it there are horisontal black kinda wide lines crossing the movies. That's really annoying!  :x
So I wondered if there's a fix for this or something... Maybe I haven't installed the video codec required or something.
Btw, this is really great :D
 
For some reason, your game is being played in 32 bit color.  Sounds like you're using the 32-bit color patch, and/or the "windowed" mode patch.  Disable these and try again.
 
There is no difference as far as most of the game is concerned (installs the same stuff, contents on disc 1, 2, and 3 are the same), but, the Platinum install disc has some patches from Eidos's site in the "Updates" folder (the Riva/TNT, Cyrix, and movie patch).
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Also, Platinum comes without a physical manual, only having the copy on the cd. Of course there's no snazzy but impractical cd book either (the cds *always* fall out.)
 
But the problem is that I want it to run in 32-colors mode... I guess I just have to live with that, I know what happens in the most movies (if I don't I can just check in another program). Thanks anyway  :)
 
hi I'm newbie here and looks like the patch files AWESOME but how can I use them ?
 
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