Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

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Sounds like you guys have scene look up table problems... you can fix this using Hojo Enemy Editor, download it, open up \data\battle\scene.bin with it, then click file...update kernel file, then select \data\kernel\kernel.bin. That should fix the problem.
 
I haven't touched anything with this game or modding it in a while so all my knowledge is lost and I'm in need of some help.  
My main problem is lag, and lots of it.  The new opening movies, as awesome as they are, give me trouble. The whole start up one is laggy as hell, and the first one when you start a new game doesn't play at all and is just a white screen with laggy audio.  And once the game starts there's so much lag it's painful.  I'm running an XP system that should handle all this with no problem save for maybe a codec issue for the movies.  Video card's a modest GeForce2 MX/MX 400, but it's held up fine when I've modded things in the past.

Other gripes I have are that the music mod doesn't seem to work and I'm stuck with the default audio, and all the backgrounds are pixelated and not nice looking.  Any help here would be most appreciated.

EDIT:  Ok...  And just by looking at it I broke it more.  I just get a black screen when I start it up, nothing happens, no sound, have to end program cause it freezes like this.  Good times.  HALP!
 
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I am going to say you need to update your graphics card. That thing is way old
 
An old GF2 Mx 400 might have been enough to run it's original release, but with this mod using much higher resolution textures, polygon counts and various other things it'll struggle like a mouse lifting an elephant.
 
By the sounds of how you haven't modded for a while, I'm going to have to say, things have probably changed a lot since you last modded it. And in that time, people have come with a lot more resource heavy mods than you computer has power for. So all I can say is, try updating and upgrading. You could always try reinstalling first, and check your game every time you install a new mod. That way you could find out what's messing up, and just avoid it, and maybe even tell someone something may be wrong with their mod.
 
I haven't touched anything with this game or modding it in a while so all my knowledge is lost and I'm in need of some help.  
My main problem is lag, and lots of it.  The new opening movies, as awesome as they are, give me trouble. The whole start up one is laggy as hell, and the first one when you start a new game doesn't play at all and is just a white screen with laggy audio.  And once the game starts there's so much lag it's painful.  I'm running an XP system that should handle all this with no problem save for maybe a codec issue for the movies.  Video card's a modest GeForce2 MX/MX 400, but it's held up fine when I've modded things in the past.

Other gripes I have are that the music mod doesn't seem to work and I'm stuck with the default audio, and all the backgrounds are pixelated and not nice looking.  Any help here would be most appreciated.

EDIT:  Ok...  And just by looking at it I broke it more.  I just get a black screen when I start it up, nothing happens, no sound, have to end program cause it freezes like this.  Good times.  HALP!
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Yeah, the FMV's lagging is a red flag of your graphics card not being able to handle rendering the game using OpenGL. As for the music mod, that should work just fine if you run the game via the shortcuts made and not via the executable directly. Also, the game freezing upon startup can be caused by a lot of things, but 9 times out of 10, the cause will either be located in APP.log, in the FF7Music console which should be visible by alt+tabbing, and/or mentioned in the BUG_REPORT.txt file and in the first thread.
 
Aye, I've messed with the config a bit and made it run in a smaller window so it'll cut down on the lag so I can at least have a look at the latest stuff.  After dicking around with that I realized that the music was working fine and I just jumped the gun there.  Though the APP.log thing is weird, cause the couple of times it worked full screen I'd get some error message about not finding a suitable one or something like that, but it would still work fine.  Now I'm not even getting that so I dunno. 

Sad that I'm not up to snuff to enjoy this, looks fun.  Curious though, are the new battle models their own mod somewhere, and if so, could anyone direct me to them?  They were quite swanky looking and I could at least use them on my other computer where I have some other things working.

Also, where did the new movies come from?  I haven't been looking into FF7 stuff in a while so those are quite new to me.
 
Aye, I've messed with the config a bit and made it run in a smaller window so it'll cut down on the lag so I can at least have a look at the latest stuff.  After dicking around with that I realized that the music was working fine and I just jumped the gun there.  Though the APP.log thing is weird, cause the couple of times it worked full screen I'd get some error message about not finding a suitable one or something like that, but it would still work fine.  Now I'm not even getting that so I dunno. 

Sad that I'm not up to snuff to enjoy this, looks fun.  Curious though, are the new battle models their own mod somewhere, and if so, could anyone direct me to them?  They were quite swanky looking and I could at least use them on my other computer where I have some other things working.

Also, where did the new movies come from?  I haven't been looking into FF7 stuff in a while so those are quite new to me.
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Everything can be found by searching for them using the names i gave in the rundown on the first page. Oh, and tweaking FF7Config is what made it stop working, if you want to change the resolution or make the game run windowed, you're gonna have to use the OpenGL settings to do so (there should be a shortcut to "OpenGL Config File" in your start menu). Opening FF7Config will overwrite the OpenGL driver's registry entries, so you're gonna have to reinstall them by running the "FF7OpenGL.reg" file in your ff7 directory. If you want to fix the laggy FMV's, changing your resolution isn't going to work, you're going to want to replace \movies\opening.avi with the stock one off of your install CD. Oh yeah and regarding the pixely-ness you mentioned earlier: to fix that, turn on the "linear_filtering" option in the FF7 Config File. You have an old graphics card, yes, but that doesn't mean that you can't change settings to make the game run properly. Just set the game to run in 640x480 and replace the opening.avi file with the stock one, and you shouldn't run into any more problems.
 
Yeah, I meant the OpenGL file not FF7Config, my bad.  Come to think of it though maybe that's what I did to break it before...  Oh well, something to keep in mind when I get to this again later  :)
 
Downloaded this yesterday and tested it out [Meaning the upgrader]

It fixed a few issues that I was having like lines under names and stuff caused by the version before hand.

Thanks very much for the fix, even if it was unintended.
 
There is a texture missing from leviathan summon.
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Hm, is that so..? Can you show me an APP.log from after you use leviathan, then quit the game? That should tell me the name of the missing texture...
 
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-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-ERROR: libpng error: Read ErrorERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.TEXERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.timstop_soundcross play music: 0set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4set music volume: 127stop_sound-=-=[END OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-Entering MAINExiting 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# 170[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZEINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Spells/seffect/seffect1_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/limit/jo_b03_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/Spells/eskill/jo_b04_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitERROR: INVALID VERSION IN POLYGON FILE STAGE67.P11 [BATTLE] Begin main battle loopINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Spells/seffect/seffect1_08.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitGLITCH: missing external texture: summons/leviathan/water_1_00.pngINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/summons/leviathan/wave_1_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/summons/leviathan/wave_2_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/summons/leviathan/wavehit_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/summons/leviathan/water_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/Spells/seffect/seffect1_07.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Spells/seffect/seffect1_13.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Spells/seffect/seffect1_09.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Spells/seffect/seffect1_02.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bitINFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Spells/seffect/seffect1_14.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit[BATTLE] End of current battle
 
Just tried this patch for the first time and i must say i am impressed, keep up the good work,
1 small susgestion though, the movies are still in TM2 codec and using PCM audio, if you converted them to divx or xvid video and mp3 audio or any other format that works with Aali's driver you could proberly knock around 300-400mb off your installer if you wanted to.
(this is because the PCM audio takes up huge amount of data, for example the ending2.avi has 22MB of audio in PCM format which could easily be converted to a MP3 that only takes up 3mb and simler things with the video).
 
Just tried this patch for the first time and i must say i am impressed, keep up the good work,
1 small susgestion though, the movies are still in TM2 codec and using PCM audio, if you converted them to divx or xvid video and mp3 audio or any other format that works with Aali's driver you could proberly knock around 300-400mb off your installer if you wanted to.
(this is because the PCM audio takes up huge amount of data, for example the ending2.avi has 22MB of audio in PCM format which could easily be converted to a MP3 that only takes up 3mb and simler things with the video).
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Thanks for the compliments! ;)
That's a good point, I'll see what I can do to reduce the filesize in the next version. Shouldn't be difficult to re-encode the videos so long as I can keep the framerates the same...

@eXistenZe Thanks for the app.log, it looks like it can't find \textures\Summons\leviathan\water_1_00.png. I think it's supposed to be the same as "water_00.png", so just make a copy of that and rename it properly to fix the issue. I'll be sure to fix this when I come out with v2.5.2.
 
Hum... Crash at the begining of fraps battle. Nothing at app.log.
 
Hey there, Dragonshadow!

25 pages strong and counting! And v2.5.2 is over the horizon.
 
I see I've become the main host for your stuff hahaha
Nice progress :o
 
Hey guys, back again

Win7 RC shouted at me so I had to get the full version. Having to reinstall all the files once again, but this time I'm having repeated issues with anything involving the FF7OpenGL.reg files, and being told "The system cannot find the path specified". Can anyone think of a simple remedy to this?

I'm sure there's a mountain of issues just waiting for me around the corner, but I I'd best deal with this one step at a time.

I also have the 2.4 remix, are there any notable changes from this? If so, are there any patches from 2.4 to 2.5.1? Or is it best just downloading the whole thing again?

Thanks in advance.
 
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