FF8 Enhancing

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Hi guys I can see you have been talking about the black boxes and lines in ff8.
I have the same problem I use a geforce 6800, and I have tried to install the 1.2 patch but that does not help.
In the config it says 8 bit paletted textures fail

What to do????

Ijust got the game for pc and was really looking forward to playing it  :cry:
 
There's *no fix* for the black box problem, besides to either use software rendering or a different graphics card.
 
Software rendering basically means that the software renders the graphics using your CPU rather than using the Direct3d hardware renderer on your graphics card. It is often slower and the quality is not as good as hardware rendering. However it can help with compatibility issues which arise over using specialized hardware graphics systems. To select software rendering open up ff8config and on the graphics tab select software rendering.
 
thx for the info, but I have decided to take another option.
I got a hold on an emulator for playstation, so now I can play the game on my pc.
 
Really Great topic.

I recently got my hand on FF7 and FF8 for PC (I had the PSX version), it was great (I'm an FF8 fan). But, when I got out from Garden, the results were simply nasting.

As I saw on the Screenshot upthere, the road didn't have an texture, and Garden looked "Squared" =/

Is there a way to make the Grapfics a little more like the PSX Version?

And the music too was terrible, but I will try those patches/soundfonts!

THANKS AGAIN!
 
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So, there is no way to fix this?? Using Direct 3D Hardware Acceleration.
 
Ugh, software mode... *shudders*

I have problems with lots of horizontal lines with my notebook. I have a Geforce Go card, not sure which one. It works generally okay in software mode except the soundfont music lags at times, which is funny considering my notebook has a 3ghz processor. Anyway, I didn't previously notice the Geforce patch so I will try that tonight and see if it works! I'll also see if there's any anti-aliasing options on the Geforce menu but I don't think there was. Oh well, I'll snoop around on the forums.
 
People with Nvidia can solve the black box problem by installing the omega drivers.
 
It's not the black box problem. It's horizontal lines. But I'll try the patches anyway and get back to you if it doesn't work. Thanks.
 
HELLO!!!

Whoa it's been AGES since I visited here, hehe! Hope your all doing fine!  :-D

I got reminded about the forums when coming on a possible fix for this FF8 black box problem. Apparently someone has managed to fix it using the GeForce 6 range of cards using hardware mode by patching it with the official 1.2 fix, however NOT the nVidia patch but the ATi one... I haven't tried it yet but it's apparently worked for someone so good luck if it does!  :wink:
 
Not as far as I know, hehehe!

I think the guy must have meant the non-nVidia patch... hope this works!  :roll:
 
Ati owners can be pround right now.

Download Ati tray tools

 http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/

Download it and select options:


D3d:

1) Adaptive Antialiasing and put in quality mode.
2) Select 6x Antialiasing
3)  A- Anisotropic Filter 8x or 16x/
     B- Quality with full trilianiar
     C- Enable hi- Quality AF
4) Texture preference - High Quality
5) MipMap High Quality
6) Adicional options: Tick all
7) Optimations: Tick all


Go to settings to tune all.

Run FFVIII with non- Geforce cards et voila!: All perfect!
 
Wish I had an ATi card now... XD

As for the fix, I can't see anything that can possibly fix it then aside from a patch of some kind. Would any of the possibilities below assist in creating one?


  • Compare the FF7.exe with the 1.02 version to see what was changed [assuming that the 8-bit fix was bought in through 1.02] to see if it helps with the FF8.exe fix
  • Convert the 8-bit textures to 16-bit [though I heard this might not work]
  • See if anywhere in the FF8.exe it asks for something 8-bit related and change it to 16-bit?

Yeah they probably all suck as I don't know too much about programming or how it works, but someone has got to know a way to fix this. If it could be done on the older FF7.exe then this shouldn't be too much harder. No programmers skilled ennough to be able to find the problem or it need a proper game programmer? =(
 
Rather than start a new thread, I hope this one isn't dead and I'll ask here.

I have read the fixes to get anti-aliasing to work with a geforce, but the geforce card I have is not the one listed. I have a 7600, a card I really like. I didn't do the riva thing yet. In fact, all I did to try (before I did a lot of unnecessary work) was set my graphic card settings for anti-aliasing on it. I didn't see any different results, not like the screenshots the people posted here.

I was just wondering, before I do the riva things (I'm assuming this is a driver?), if anyone has gotten anti-aliasing on FF8 (hopefully it won't screw up ff7) to work on an nvidia geforce 7600 GS

EDIT: Okay, after system restoring my computer several times in the last few minutes, I have determined that for an NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS with the Asus driver 91.47, in order for FFVIII to register your settings (regardless of Rivatuner) with antialiasing, you must have hardware instead of software mode set. However, this brings the black boxes that everyone seems to have. So, I guess for us people that have this card, unless there's a workaround which seems very unlikely considering my extensive searching, we're sorta stuck with either living with the black boxes or having no antialiasing. I like this set of drivers, so I have no interest in putting in Omega drivers or going down to a lower version, like some have suggested. Which is a real pity, since the game looks so beautiful with antialiasing.
 
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Haven't read the whole thread, but is somone able to put in MP3's instead of the crappy Midi's?
I did some re-renders of the tracks in-game. I consider this one one of the best. I did some FF7 ones a year ago. Maybe some of you remember.

Well, enjoy the render ;)
-NeoS.
 
If I were to assume that you didn't read this thread by #Sen-chan# either, I would be right, wouldn't I? :-D
 
Pretty accurate Mr. jari.  :-D
Bummer... Oh well. I have some FF7's too.
 
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