The Great FF7 FAQ (now outdated)

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Thanks for the info, and sorry you had to re-type most of the stuff that was in your first post (which I read whilst... erm, under the influence, so did not fully comprehend  :oops: ). Rivatuner is a great little app; got AA set to 4x & 8-bit disabled, hardware set to nVidia TNT, and it all works! Fights & menus look loads better, world map is a little dark but that's no problem.

Regarding format, there were other issues involved besides display. I tend to reformat & reinstall every 3 months or so anyway - just the blackscreening pushed it over the edge.

Thanks again for your help
 
For fx series users (I've tested fx5600/fx5900xt), old detonator has better compatibility (forceware 5x.xx is a disaster for fx series users playing ff7pc). And fx5900xt users can use detonator 45.32.
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I just noticed the above quote.....

This may "only" be true for WinXP, I have a FX5900XT, and the Rivatuner paste and cut thing wouldn't work with the 45.32 drivers, or any driver that wasn't classfied as Forceware. I still use a WIn98 machine, so...maybe the WinXP driver is different.

Rivatuner would ignore that paste and cut option....if the drivers weren't classified as Forceware. The pulldown of the antialaising in Rivatuner is different, between the older drivers and the newer ones.
 
Hi all, i am trying to install the ff7 (again) to play it one more time.... but i cant seem to get it done.

once i hit the install button, it does nothing. i really dont know what to do now !

i have looked for a problem like this, but all the problems were during the game, and not with the instalation itself.

I wonder if anyone could help me ?!

i have an Athlon XP 1.2 GHz 256 ddr gforce4 fx5200 128mb asus a7n8x-x


thanks in advance !
 
Hello! 8-bit text works with the edited Rivatuner.cfg but i can select TNT in the FF7Config cause its doesnt work. It works if i unselect Nvidia. I tryed to install the XP patch again, now i can select TNT. It works, but not fine.
I have an Geforce2Ti400, Nvidia 61.77 driver, DirectX9.0c. My OS is WinXPpro.
The situation now:
- the backgrounds are nice <<< working
- no problems with the 3D, only my charachters dont have eye in world mod (when im not fighting)
- i have problems with he videos, i can only see one corner of the video and the cursor is too big... many thing bigger...

HELP ME PLS!
 
Just thought I'd tell you that I followed your instructions on getting FSAA working and it works perfectly, but I thought it wasn't meant to since I'm using the newest nvidia drivers  :-?

EDIT: I've got some questions now (I've only just managed to get hold of FFVIIPC, so I'm really really n00bish, and I'm really sorry in advance):

1. Is there any way to make your game sound better without a SB card? Because any soundfonts I've seen are only for cards made by creative labs. (the turks theme really gets to me, it's so crappy compared to the PS version!)

2. I've been trying to get ff7music working so I can use mp3s for the game, but unluckily, my game is not the same type as fice's so it's not yet supported to be patched, so is there any way to get this working?

EDIT2: Ignore me, I found my problem and got ff7music working...
 
Heh, my game sounded the best when i didnt even HAVE a sound card and used the yamaha sound font.  But you cant have both, because the soundfont and sound cards dont play nice.  Especially while booting up winblowz.
 
Hey there I'm new here and writing from Poland I've got a problem.After I installed all the patches too run this game on my windows XP HOME EDITION I did get pass the chocobo race but the game crushes now after I meet for the first time CID and we're about to chrash into the sea with his airplane.I don't know if there are any other patches for this moment in the game or any other solution to get passed this moment if someone knows how to overcome this then place reply me. My computer specifications are:WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION  and GEFORCE 4 440 MX.
 
hey everyone...i just ordered ff7 for pc off ebay...knowing there was a few problems with win xp but not as many as i have been reading as of lately...i just wanted to know what i would need to do to get it running well on my computer...note that i have not received the game yet...system specs are the following:
win xp pro sp2
p4 3.0 ghz oc'd to 3.3
ati radeon 9500 pro bios modded to allow overclocking (recognized as 9700 pro)
catalyst 4.9 drivers
1024mb ram

thanks in advance
 
Hello guys, my graphic card is 6800GT, I have tried most of methods listed above and still cannot pass the 8-bit texture and fix the grid lines...
I have tried:
1. updated the driver (forceware) to 66.81
2. I have installed 1.02 FF7 patch
3. I have used riva tuner 1.52
 --setting:
  -enabled 8-bit texture
  -modified cfg file with ff06 ff0c ff0d modes
Anyone give me a hand...I almost give up...
 
Interesting. I thought NVIDIA cards supported 8-bit paletted textures. What you need to do is go into FF7config it select the Riva box.
 
Interesting. I thought NVIDIA cards supported 8-bit paletted textures. What you need to do is go into FF7config it select the Riva box.
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I have checked the riva box, but I still got the grid lines.
 
And I installed FF8, grid lines come up again..should I give up and use software rendering?..
 
Did you try patching your drivers? Also, make sure anisotropic filtering is not being forced on along with anti-aliasing.
 
I have updated original driver from 61.77 to 66.81.
Within driver setting, anisotropic is controled by the application, antialiasing is 4x(I have tried none)
 
Wow seems like everyone is having problems with this gridline ordeal.... including me, but I haven't seen anyone else with my video card. I am using S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR (yes it's onboard and I know it's not really a gaming card, but I was low on cash and it came with a 2 gig processor so I said what the heck). I can play it on software but it goes really slow and skips at certain parts like during fast paced videos. If I play it on the Riva option, I get the multi-colored gridlines and it takes awhile to load when I go into a new area. On TNT I get alot less gridlines but they are still there. If anyone knows how to tweak the settings to remove the gridlines on this type of video, please let me know.
 
hi guys

I tried installing FF7 on Windows XP and it worked

But when I tried to run it would give a black screen and sometimes lock up my PC
then I tried many of the methods here

it still wouldn't work
then I enabled the win 98/ME compatibility mode to run the exe with

OMG!! IT WORKS! Now I'll just hex edit the .exe for the Chocobo races and I'll be set.

This forum rules. Thanks, guys. I appreciate all your efforts. Just be sure to try enabling the compatibility mode if it doesn't work for you.
To do this, you need to right click the ff7.exe file, click Properties, Compatibility
Check Run this program in Compatibility mode for:
and select Windows 98/Windows ME
 
Hello, I'm new here but does anyone have FSAA problems in battle.

I followed the instructions on this thread, everything works except that the battle effect sprites are streched enormously(eg. Sword slash, Explosions etc.). (I used Rivatuner)

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 AMD Athlon 2000+
 Geforce2mx
 512mb ram
 
I found out it affects stuff outside battle as well.
I can only see the top-left quarter of movies and the world map gets corrupt. (Tried with both Forceware 53.03 and 61.77)
Here is a link with 5 screenshots of my game:

http://www.angelfire.com/games5/hybir0/
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EDITED: I went and bought a new graphics card once I tested on another GeForce2 and it had the same problem. Thanks for trying to help
 
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