Let's play Final Fantasy VII- with Linux?

[sithlord48]

i am at work now , so i can't really confirm that your wine dxdialog path is correct. or that ff7 doesn't work w/  wine >= 1.1.35 (i also have 1.1.36 atm, but have not played since the "upgrade"). when i get back to the house i will see what i can dig up for you, in the mean time do you have another program that uses direct sound to test with (winamp works nice in wine.... and can be set to d.sound out.) try to see if the problem is only w/ ff7 or all direct sound apps , if its with all try to reinstall directX.

 

[d33eniz]

Okay, I dunno why it's working now- I installed everything you told me- and I've written into the terminal:
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then, I restarted my laptop and now I can run the FF7 Config- no errors. But there's still one problem: Whenever I try to run the ff7.exe it loads- and exits. No error message or something like that- any idea?

 

[sithlord48]

works just fine on my machine still (wine 1.1.36)

Okay, I dunno why it's working now- I installed everything you told me- and I've written into the terminal:
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then, I restarted my laptop and now I can run the FF7 Config- no errors. But there's still one problem: Whenever I try to run the ff7.exe it loads- and exits. No error message or something like that- any idea?

after you load the ff7config. you have to re add the .reg key to your "regestry" ( i would run regedit first then add from with in the program).

do you get any errors when you run (in a terminal)
wine <ff7.exe's path> ?

 

[d33eniz]

I know, I imported the key again into the registry- let's see, I'll run it from the terminal...

 

[Kranmer]

ok i just tried this on a virtual machine with ubuntu 10.04 (4gb DVD version) and Wine 1.1.36 and Aali's Driver 0.7.3b and offical update 1.02 and it seems to work (it runs slow but i believe this is more likely that fact its a virtual machine. To do it i installed wine 1.1.36 then installed FF7 then installed patch 1.02 then ran FF7config.EXE once then imported the registry from Aali's driver 0.7.3b with regedit in wine then ran ff7.exe and the first error i got was a error to do with Microsoft C++ libraries so i installed VC 2005+2008 redist and that fixed that problem then i had a problem with the game just staying black and to fix this i changed the audio setting in wines configuration program to the 3rd option (cant remember what it was off the top of my head just that it was the 3rd option down) then ran the game and it seems to run without any errors.


EDIT:
ok just installed Ubuntu 9.10 (700mb CD version) onto my laptop (so this time its not a virtual machine) then installed all updates (including nvidia driver 185 for my graphics card), rebooted, then installed wine 1.1.36 (i didnt compile myself since when i tried the compiled version kept giving me weird errors so i downloaded a already compiled version) after installing wine i went on to install ff7 then the offical 1.02 patch then ff7config then extracted Aali's driver 0.7.3b to the game folder. Then imported the keys from Aali's driver into wine with regedit and edited the cfg file for the settings i wanted and ran the game, the game ran but the audio was off so i then installed TiMidi++ MIDI sequencer from the Ubuntu software server and ran ff7config again and set it to TiMidi port0 then clicked ok and re added the registry files from Aali's driver ran the game and it ran with good sound (no music just sounds but i have yet to try ff7music)
(also above i used wine with all its default settings and ran the EXE's by right clicking them in the "file browser" on my laptop)

 

[sithlord48]

do either of you guys have FF7music working correctly w/ wine 1.1.36 (64bit) i seam to get errors when it need to change the songs... (first one works correctly, then it goes silent...

the following errors are what i get...


this is w/ a fresh install (after purge) of wine 1.1.36 aali's driver 0.73b , ff7 music 1.5 (mad input and fast-wave out, was working fine)...

 

[Kranmer]

i havent tried ff7music yet and i have only been using x86 (32bit) version so i will download the 64bit version in a moment and try it (might take a few hours since i already hit my DL limit since i have downloaded the 4GB DVD and the 700MB 32bit versions today already) , I will edit the post later to let you know how it went.

EDIT:-
Ok just installed "Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 Desktop" And ff7music seems to be working alright (tried it out in the reactor at the first music change i kept running back and forth from 1 screen to the other and the music kept changing but no crash)

installed all latest updates and activated Geforce drivers 185 for my card and TiMidi++ then installed VC++ 2005+2008 Runtime both 32bit and 64bit versions.
Then wine 1.1.36 and configured it with ALSA audio (not the best but i was only using it for testing)
Then FF7, Then offical Patch 1.02 then Aali's driver 0.7.3b and edited the CFG (making sure to rename the music plugin in CFG adding _wine in to make it work correctly) and ran FF7config.exe and set up TiMidi++ as the MIDI player and default for speakers then clicked OK.
Then imported Aali's driver into the registry using regedit
Then setup ff7music to the settings i wanted then ran FF7 from FF7music.

Did you check your CFG had the wine plugin for FF7music and not just the normal FF7music plugin ?
did you install both 32 and 64 bit versions of VC++ since the error seems to be VC++ related ?

 

[sithlord48]

Ok just installed "Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 Desktop"

thats close enuff to my os,i just use kde instead of gnome... and ati video...

Did you check your CFG had the wine plugin for FF7music and not just the normal FF7music plugin ?

yes this config has been working correctly for quite some time (but i have double checked "music_plugin=ff7music_wine.fgp")
and oddly enuff the sfx work perfectly the whole time.. (the "crash" won't crash ff7 but it will kill bkround music)

did you install both 32 and 64 bit versions of VC++ since the error seems to be VC++ related ?

now that i have not done i have used winetricks to install , vc2005/vc2008 runtime (and sp1 for 2008), but i don't know if it installed the 32-bit or 64-bit version of them...

 

[Kranmer]

ok well you could try installing vc2005/2008 runtimes in both 32and64bit to see if that makes any difference. (i installed the 32bit ones first then the 64bit versions afterwards, the 64bit version of vc2008 crashed after the installation of the files but it seemed to have already finished installing)
Also i only used the originals i didnt use any SP versions so this may have also made a difference. (i will try installing SP1 for vc tomorrow to see if it makes any difference).
also in your previous post you said you are using ff7music 1.5, did you mean 1.51 or are you using a old version ?

 

[Aali]

The wine version of the FF7Music plugin will only work with one specific version of FF7Music; file version 1.5.1.1, mtime October 16, 2005. Any other version will just crash.

 

[sithlord48]

The wine version of the FF7Music plugin will only work with one specific version of FF7Music; file version 1.5.1.1, mtime October 16, 2005. Any other version will just crash.

i'm assuming that i do have version 1.5.1.1 since this set up was working 100% no issues, but that is another thing i will check... also i have install the 32 and 64 bit versions of vc++ 2008, but no further developments.

 

[Bosola]

I know that this isn't really a solution so much as a workaround, but: if you have your own copy of FF7 PSX and have the equipment to dump your own PSOne BIOS, you can play the game using ePSXe legally. ePSXe-Linux isn't perfect, but I suspect it will be less problematic than trying to run ff7.exe on WINE.

There are plenty of tutorials for BIOS dumping out there. Contact me if you want further instructions.

 

[sithlord48]

I know that this isn't really a solution so much as a workaround, but: if you have your own copy of FF7 PSX and have the equipment to dump your own PSOne BIOS, you can play the game using ePSXe legally. ePSXe-Linux isn't perfect, but I suspect it will be less problematic than trying to run ff7.exe on WINE.

There are plenty of tutorials for BIOS dumping out there. Contact me if you want further instructions.

first off thanks for the suggestion,i have a psx copy of ff7 and a working psx and ps2 so playing on a real one is not a problem,also my psx emulator works decently using pcsx(i use a real ps2 controller(s) with it.).i mainly want to play on my computer because of the vast improvements that have been made to the pc version by members of this forum and others.ff7 looks so good with aali's driver, T.A's 2d overhall,along with other model mods that it just leaves the psx version even in any emulator scaled w/ any filter to 1680*1050 looking a much poorer quality then the pc, and that not even counting the awesomeness that is the remastered ost that FinalFan Tim did.my problems are not really running ff7 in wine at all,infact it works really good...the only issue that i have is that ff7music keeps crashing after it does a song change. so it just runs the game w/o background music, i suspose i could try getting the normal midi to work or use the psf soundfont files...

 

[inukaze]

Well i use "Ubuntu Lucid 10.04" 32 Bits

I need

1 - CDEmu ( PPA )
2 - Wine1.2 ( Stable PPA )
3 - Timidity & Pmidi ( Dont need it if you wanna use FF7Music MP3 OST Remix )
4 - Aali OpenGL Driver
5 - tm20dec.ax
6 - FF7 1.2 Official Patch Version


Take it Easy , I Have a Spanish ¿Guide? on my blog you can visit : http://inukaze.wordpress.com/juegos-wine/final-fantasy-vii-7-pc/jwff7pc-01/ with you can need to play ( i hope )

Works : CD1 , Videos , GamePlay ( GamePlay turns for me Slowly when Shera Appear ( Patner of Cid ? ) , Mods Of New : Textures , Movies , Avatars , Fonts , Menues . Chocobo Racing Works .

Well i hope this info can help you :=) ^^

 

[litexUK]

Jesus, I work on Kubuntu now, games are v. slow. Wine is only of little help, honestly. Will try out some tricks here - but I really would like to play some FFs after changing the OS. Will get back w/ questions, probably.