[PC] Installer Remake (1.5.0)

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Let's not. As hideously simple as FF7's CD check is, and frankly unnecessary these days considering most people who encounter it are using converted Steam versions that they bought legally, removing it is still against the law in most places (in the US it's a DMCA violation) and I'd rather keep things on the up-and-up for anything distributed on these forums.
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The CD check will still be there in the exe, that's why I suggest a hext patch. For me is the blank iso method pretty much the same solution. Well I need to think about that...   :-\
I simply hate to have a virtual drive or the CD in the drive for only one game.
 
But it uses the CD to load the movies... (and battles if you didn't install max)
 
So I encountered a problem: for some reasons even after installing the german 1.02 ff7.exe the game doesn't start. I used the original installer and installed the game to a different location and I was able to start the game. Are there some region specific settings? The registry entries doesn't look different.
 
The data is different in the German CD I think.  Check to see if all the file names in the CD are the same.  You can't use an english flevel.lgp with a german .exe
 
Well you can if you remove the 'g' at the beginning. The language sensitive files are mainly the minigames. The thing is that I installed the game from my german CDs so they shouldn't any english files there, except the ff7.exe and config of the patch. Or do the new installer change more files?
 
The installer is not file name sensitive, meaning it will install any files on the CD-ROM you have/add/modify.  It was done this way to support modded discs.  Install the game once with your German discs but make sure you remove all traces of previous installs.  Then post the differences you see in the registry so I can add them.
 
Installer worked, but running ff7.exe I got no opening video but only start screen in very small size looking like 800x600 in my PC having 1600x900 screen size.
1. Any suggestion to fix this ?
  In Windows 7SP1 64bit, with Aalli's open GL, ff7.exe worked well but in W10 you are only hope.
2. W10 already has .NET Framework 4.6 not 4.0 , but your note said "Requires .NET Framework 4.0" how I can install it over .NET Framework 4.6 in Windows 10 ?
 
Having a newer .NET framework means you can run previous version's applications as well so 4.0 applications work on 4.6 and 4.5.  I can't help you with your screen resolution since that is not covered or messed with by the installer.  Officially you can set it to 640x480 and 320x240.  Running the game in a higher resolution won't help you much since everything was made for 640x480.

Try playing the game with the default DirectX driver instead of Aali's driver and see if it works.  If everything works with the default driver we might be able to work out a solution.  Make sure you install the 1.02 update AND the Chocobo patch (they are tick boxes in the installer)
 
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Thank you for replying my question.
I figured out that I forgot to run "ff7config.exe" to set screen 640x480 16bpp (Full Screen )and got "quarter" size of the game.

And as for FMVs or opening screen, I ran tm20decSetup.exe 108 KB (111,390 byte), i.e. true motion codec 2, and got worked.
My issue is now closed.
 
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Yes, as you said I set 640x480 Full Screen with ff7config.exe.
Almost OK in playing FF7.
Now I used MOD characters as I used to in Windows 7; I got WHITEened Cloud !!
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Chibi characters were shown correctly using original char.lgp, but relplacing it with modified one including high quality Cloud, Cloud was plotted as white one but his buster sword plotted good (even Aerith had no face!! Oh my.).
Is there any clue to fix this ?In addition, I would like to use Avalanche MOD, Avalanche GUI v2.0.8.exe to get smooth text, how can I get MOD worked ?
 
alot of the mods made in the past few years will take advantage of aali's driver.. you NEED it for avalanche mods. any mod that uses external textures in <modpath> will need aali's driver. there is no reason to not use aali's driver . if you have issues w/ aali's driver be sure that you have installed the proper video drivers from your cards vendor . DO NOT install video drivers thru windows update or allow windows to install your video driver as the ones provided by microsoft have crippled or completely broken OpenGL support.

things like the chocobo patch are obsolete and not recommended for any new installs. please see here for a complete list of outdated and obsolete patches. http://wiki.qhimm.com/view/FF7/Technical/Customising#Misc.2FOutdated_.28Do_not_use.29
 
Yes, I used Aalli's Open GL after the installation with TOM's installer in W10.
Also I applied ff7_opengl.reg by him;

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Graphics]
"DriverPath"="ff7_opengl.fgd"
"Driver"=dword:00000003
"Mode"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Graphics]
"DriverPath"="ff7_opengl.fgd"
"Driver"=dword:00000003
"Mode"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\VirtualStore\Machine\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Graphics]
"DriverPath"="ff7_opengl.fgd"
"Driver"=dword:00000003
"Mode"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\VirtualStore\Machine\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Graphics]
"DriverPath"="ff7_opengl.fgd"
"Driver"=dword:00000003
"Mode"=dword:00000002
*****************************************


Lines of ff7_opengl.cfg are like beow;

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# ff7_opengl-0.8b config file

## USER OPTIONS ##
## If you just want to play the game, these are the only options you'll want to change.

# set the window size (or fullscreen resolution) of FF7
# 0 means use original resolution in window mode, your current desktop resolution will be used in fullscreen mode
# preserve_aspect adds black borders as needed to preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio
window_size_x = 1600
window_size_y = 900
preserve_aspect = yes
fullscreen = no

# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
mod_path = avalanche

***************************************************

With these, I got "NO WINDOW" for game screen but got FULL SCREEN for the game, not got MODS for menu by Avalanche in ;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\mods\avalanche\menu

Any suggestion ?
 
Maybe the OpenGL driver is not compatible with Windows 10?
Try installing this version of the OpenGL driver https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/5456/

Because it can't be the installer since the installer does exactly what the old installer did like 100% (since the Installer Coordinator based versions) the problem lies elsewhere...

If you are using an old version of the installer download the latest as of now is 1.4.2
Delete your registry FFVII entry and your Final Fantasy VII folder before you use the new version.
Version 1.3.4 is broken pretty bad so don't use it if you have that one.
 
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Thank you for your suggestion. I used your latest installer 1.4.2 and got the results posted.

I finally figured out how to activate Aali's OpenGLdriver in Windows 10 64bit.

1. Install the game with your installar.
2. Replace ff7config.exe by Aali's OpenGL v0.7.11b file.
  (This is needed for setting game renderer to "custom driver" i.e. Aali's OpenGL.)
3. Now extract Aali's OpenGL v0.8.1b to the game directory.
4. Double click Aali's ff7_opengl.reg file to make the game recognize it.
5. Open ff7config.exe to set renderer to "custom driver" on graphic tab.

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6. Launch game !!

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Aali's Custom Graphic Driver v0.8.1b WORKED in Windows 10, but need old ff7config.exe to set it.
Whitened Cloud and faceless Aerith were displayed correctly with Aali's driver effective !
 
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I'm trying to get in touch with Aali in order to add native support for his mod in the installer (Like the check boxes that install the chocobo patch)
 
Aali is a tough one to get in touch with. He's always around, but never really talks to anyone.
 
The main problem with adding support for Aali's mod is I don't know how it works!  I haven't ever used it because the computer I play ff7 on can't run OpenGL so I'm not familiar with it.  What can be done now is to add another component for Aali's mod through Installer Coordinator but that might cause other issues in the installer if it is not done properly.
 
Oh what a update to Windows 10 Pro 64bit !!
Just after moving w7 to w10, I got good result in playing FF7 with Aali's Custom Graphic Driver0.8.1b as I reported.

Now w10 got 1511 build automatically as well as KB3122947 and KB3116900 to it and everything went BAD!

FF7 won't start any longer. Need help.
 
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