Great mods, everything looks fantastic, everyone who has worked on these should be congratulated, hands shaken, backs patted etc.
Now I have a slight hiccup, and couldn't find anyone else with the same problem or anything to help in any of the other topics. I just installed the game again, downloaded and applied the remix patcher following most (or all) of the configuration steps, and started a new game. The game will play up to the mako reactor and when the very first boss is about to load the game crashes. The battle swirl initiates and the music starts to play, then an error message comes up saying "oops..." and a crash.dmp file was created in the FF7 folder.
Here is the tail of the log:
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Entering MAINMIDI play: 7reading midi file: BAT.midcurrent volume: 127MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!Exiting MAINEntering FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRLExitting FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRLSwirl sound_effect1stop_soundEnd of Swirl sound_effect1Entering FRAME_QUIT SWIRLExitting FRAME_QUIT SWIRLEntering MAINExiting MAIN[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE[BATTLE] Scene# 321[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE[BATTLE] Begin main battle loopGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Limit/bigshot/hvshot_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Limit/bigshot/hvshot_01.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-boundGLITCH: deferred draw outside Z-bound[BATTLE] End of current battle[BATTLE] Begin end battle stuffMIDI play: 46reading midi file: FAN2.midcurrent volume: 127MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!stop_sound[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_QUIT[BATTLE] endof battle.[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_QUITEntering MAINExiting MAINSTART OF MENU SYSTEM!!!END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!Entering MAINExiting MAINField Startcross play music: 0set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4MIDI cross fade: 6, time: 4MIDI set volume trans: 127->15; step=2MIDI set volume: 15100% of 15 = 15MIDI play: 6reading midi file: MAKORO.midcurrent volume: 15MIDI set volume trans: 15->127; step=2MIDI set volume: 127100% of 127 = 127MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!set music volume: 127Entering MAINExiting MAINSTART OF MENU SYSTEM!!!ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save00.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save01.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save02.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save03.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save04.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save05.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save06.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save07.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save08.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save09.ff7ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save00.ff7END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!Entering MAINExiting MAINField StartMIDI play: 6song is already playing...MIDI play: 2reading midi file: OB.midcurrent volume: 127MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!Field QuitEntering MAINMIDI play: 2song is already playing...Exiting MAINEntering FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRLExitting FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRLSwirl sound_effect1stop_soundEnd of Swirl sound_effect1Entering FRAME_QUIT SWIRLExitting FRAME_QUIT SWIRLEntering MAINERROR: unhandled exception
I am playing on Windows 7 64 bit domestic version, on a nice shiny new Acer laptop. 1366 x768 resolution, native and in the configured settings, running in windowed mode because I couldn't get fullscreen to work (it would just show a black screen, play a second or two of music and then crash). I have 4 gigs of ram, an intel integrated crap graphics card, and an intel 2.1 ghz processor. I run it as administrator, and it runs smoothly for the most part. The only other problem I have run into is the opening movie plays really slow and glitchy. It is weird, because it doesn't play slow when I first start FF7, only when I start a new game, and the movies all play fine when I run them from the movie folder. I just downloaded some updated codecs so I will see if that works, but thanks in advance for any help.
Update: I installed the PrC scene.bin patch and it works...so far. I had the same crash again when going after the next mako reactor due to a random battle, but then it didn't happen when I restarted and played through the area again. Now I just beat the second boss (airbuster, I think) and the screen faded to black at the end right after cloud fell and didn't load/transistion to the next part meeting Aeris(th). Couldn't get it to work so I just exited, and will retry soon. Full screen mode works though, and no other problems besides what appear to be fixable bugs. I'll also try the updated remix patcher tomorrow. Thanks again for the help.
I know what the direct mode is for and I thought it might become handy for testing some models. You made me curious, though and I checked the folders. It seems that the magic.lgp isn't fully extracted. Ficedulas LGP Tools mentions something about 5000 files and it extracts only about 3000 of them. I tried it multiple times. It doesn't matter if you decompress everything or not. So, is this a problem with the LGP Tools or with the magic.lgp?