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EmperorSteele
Guest
Hey all. I have a plan that may once and for all be able to help those who cannot run the game correctly, for whatever reason.
Starting with my own systems, I plan to make a spreadsheet of various systems, and how well they run ff7, including if they need any patches or not.
Now, this is where i need help. I want all of YOU to list your system specs for me as follows:
OS (if XP, please specify home/pro, and which service packs, if any, are installed)
Motherboard
-processor
-ram
Video card
-driver version (If anyone is willing to test multiple driver versions on your system, i'd love you for it!)
Audio card
HardDrive(s)
-speed
-space total and free
CD/DVD drives
-read speed
Basic system info: Does it usually run fine, or do you have other problems? No need to be too specific unless it's something that could very well hamper ff7's performance (like conflicting codec, or high system memory usage due to overabundance of running proggies/spyware)
Version of FF7 (and if you've applied either the chococbo or animevamp patch)
-full install w/ movies on HD?
-Ultima version?
-did you install the yamaha drivers?
-Did you install directshow or the truemotion codec?
-Any other patches or mods installed? (Such as numpad fix for laptops or the high-res battle Cloud patch)
What res do you run ff7 at?
-problems with other res's?
-hardware or software mode?
Movies: Do they play? (yes/no/some)
-any specific problems?
Crashes: Where/when/frequency (if at all)
Other bugs? (Superspeed Bike, white boxes when Odin uses steel-bladed Sword, crappy-looking text, doesnt shut off w/out a ctrlatldel, etc)
Basically, i want to to see if we can draw a definitive coralary between specific issues between ff7 and the rest of one's system. With the kind of AOL-using goofballs who cant get movies to play, i wouldnt be surprised if the cause of this rash of "can't get movies to play" is somehow related to shitty Dells or somekind of wierd spyware.
I mean, i've only had one problem getting movies to play, on a very, very old system. I circumvented it by playing the movies in windows media player before reaching them in-game, so that they were in memory. And truth be told, I'm a moron, but i still got it to work. 3 systems later, i still have a flawless-working copy (give or take the chocobo patch and the once-in-a-great-while random crash). I refuse to beleive that anyone with a legit copy can't get te thing to run correctly (at least as far as movies and other minor nuances are concerned).
At worst, we'll beable to nail down the cause to such movie problems soley on the copy being pirated, and/or the end-user having done something stupid. At best, You will have helped me create the penultimatge trouble-shooting guide, so the next time someone says "I have a p3 sytem and a radeon card, and ff7 refuses to boot", we'll beable to inform them of a hardware conflict and to update thier mobo's drivers.
Btw, i only put this in game-tweaking because this is where the majority of our "problem" users seem to lurk.. i'm really more interested in getting their info. If a Mod feels this REALLY belongs elsewhere (like tech, mebbe?), well, i can't stop ya from moving it =/
Starting with my own systems, I plan to make a spreadsheet of various systems, and how well they run ff7, including if they need any patches or not.
Now, this is where i need help. I want all of YOU to list your system specs for me as follows:
OS (if XP, please specify home/pro, and which service packs, if any, are installed)
Motherboard
-processor
-ram
Video card
-driver version (If anyone is willing to test multiple driver versions on your system, i'd love you for it!)
Audio card
HardDrive(s)
-speed
-space total and free
CD/DVD drives
-read speed
Basic system info: Does it usually run fine, or do you have other problems? No need to be too specific unless it's something that could very well hamper ff7's performance (like conflicting codec, or high system memory usage due to overabundance of running proggies/spyware)
Version of FF7 (and if you've applied either the chococbo or animevamp patch)
-full install w/ movies on HD?
-Ultima version?
-did you install the yamaha drivers?
-Did you install directshow or the truemotion codec?
-Any other patches or mods installed? (Such as numpad fix for laptops or the high-res battle Cloud patch)
What res do you run ff7 at?
-problems with other res's?
-hardware or software mode?
Movies: Do they play? (yes/no/some)
-any specific problems?
Crashes: Where/when/frequency (if at all)
Other bugs? (Superspeed Bike, white boxes when Odin uses steel-bladed Sword, crappy-looking text, doesnt shut off w/out a ctrlatldel, etc)
Basically, i want to to see if we can draw a definitive coralary between specific issues between ff7 and the rest of one's system. With the kind of AOL-using goofballs who cant get movies to play, i wouldnt be surprised if the cause of this rash of "can't get movies to play" is somehow related to shitty Dells or somekind of wierd spyware.
I mean, i've only had one problem getting movies to play, on a very, very old system. I circumvented it by playing the movies in windows media player before reaching them in-game, so that they were in memory. And truth be told, I'm a moron, but i still got it to work. 3 systems later, i still have a flawless-working copy (give or take the chocobo patch and the once-in-a-great-while random crash). I refuse to beleive that anyone with a legit copy can't get te thing to run correctly (at least as far as movies and other minor nuances are concerned).
At worst, we'll beable to nail down the cause to such movie problems soley on the copy being pirated, and/or the end-user having done something stupid. At best, You will have helped me create the penultimatge trouble-shooting guide, so the next time someone says "I have a p3 sytem and a radeon card, and ff7 refuses to boot", we'll beable to inform them of a hardware conflict and to update thier mobo's drivers.
Btw, i only put this in game-tweaking because this is where the majority of our "problem" users seem to lurk.. i'm really more interested in getting their info. If a Mod feels this REALLY belongs elsewhere (like tech, mebbe?), well, i can't stop ya from moving it =/
