Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

[Zjuggernaut]

Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

I'm literally about to cry.

After being here for hours trying to get it to work... I've lost all hope in humanity. I downloaded FF7 (not an ISO, btw) and it all works fine... Until the start.

It comes up EIDOS and keeps playing past SquareSoft and the credits. I press "New Game" and the opening cutscene starts (which I've had to sit through about 400 f**king times) and then it transitions into the actual game... Then goes black. I can still hear sound effects but no music and the blue text box comes up with Barret saying "C'mon newcomer. Follow me." - But no picture behind it. Just a black screen.

Any ideas? I've downloaded/installed patches and looked at guides on the internet but nothing.

I use Vista.

 

[Skotekal]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

Maybe your graphics card isn't good enough? If it is, maybe you should update the drivers.

I know, my help is the lameage and I repeat the obvious.

 

[droded]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

I'm afraid that the problem is most probably that you are using Vista, it has a reputation for messing with older games.

EDIT: I'm sorry, that reply sounded very negative - the problems are also likely to be caused by other factors, as Vista doesn't usually hinder gameplay completely. (It just lowers the quality of gameplay significantly)

 

[Steve]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

I haven't tried playing Final Fantasy VII on my Vista laptop but, if you have already made sure you're up to date with your graphics card drivers then perhaps try tinkering with the external FF7 control/settings panel. I know that sounds a little vague but I recall having some success when I was using XP (this was before the XP patch was released). You can find the external control panel under Start > Squaresoft > Final Fantasy VII

I'll see if I can find my old FF7 for PC and see how I get on, too.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

Try right clicking the shortcut > go to properties> then compatibility and try changing the option there. Might be set to run in Windows 95 or something, try tinkering that first and see if there is any change if you try a couple of them.

 

[Gikoku]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

It sounds like a driver issue, I had the same problem when I attempted to run the game "Oni" on my laptop, but my video card was too 'advanced' for it. So the visuals were either a pixelated mess or black screen with sound.

I can't remember, but I think FF7 requires DirectX 6.0 to run properly, wasn't there an option in the installation to install DirectX for it? You could also adjust your video card settings such as lowering the Anti-aliasing, I know FF8 PC doesn't work right if the anti-aliasing is turned all the way up (you get a very ugly picture).

Maybe your graphics card isn't good enough? If it is, maybe you should update the drivers.

2010 and a PC that can't run Final Fantasy VII? I can imagine so if he's running on an old relic with Windows 95' on it.

I'm afraid that the problem is most probably that you are using Vista

Doubt it, my PC copy of FFVII works fine on my Vista laptop, as well as the PC version of FFVIII.

 

[droded]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

Doubt it, my PC copy of FFVII works fine on my Vista laptop, as well as the PC version of FFVIII.

Oh really? I used to have Vista, and when I played both games Final Fantasy VIII would have some sort of graphics issue, and Final Fantasy VII would randomly stop working every now and then.

Probably my bad luck I suppose.

 

[Gikoku]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

Oh really? I used to have Vista, and when I played both games Final Fantasy VIII would have some sort of graphics issue, and Final Fantasy VII would randomly stop working every now and then.

Probably my bad luck I suppose.

That's the fault of the video card, not Vista. I get the same issue with FF8, it has to do with the anti-aliasing and other settings of your video card. There's a patch for it out there if I remember correctly.

 

[Zjuggernaut]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

I did read somewhere that FF7 has trouble on Vista due to bad coding. I'll look more into it.

Thanks to all of you for the advice. I appreciate it.

 

[Tyloric]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

Actually, the old Final Fantasies are notorious for not working on Vista. My FFVII works great on Windows 7, though. :X

 

[Zjuggernaut]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

I'm actually thinking about down-grading to play this game.

 

[Skotekal]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

It sounds like a driver issue, I had the same problem when I attempted to run the game "Oni" on my laptop, but my video card was too 'advanced' for it. So the visuals were either a pixelated mess or black screen with sound.

I can't remember, but I think FF7 requires DirectX 6.0 to run properly, wasn't there an option in the installation to install DirectX for it? You could also adjust your video card settings such as lowering the Anti-aliasing, I know FF8 PC doesn't work right if the anti-aliasing is turned all the way up (you get a very ugly picture).


2010 and a PC that can't run Final Fantasy VII? I can imagine so if he's running on an old relic with Windows 95' on it.



Doubt it, my PC copy of FFVII works fine on my Vista laptop, as well as the PC version of FFVIII.

Oh, I had no idea it was that old. I don't know anything about Final Fantasy. :lol:

 

[Tyloric]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

I suggest finding a PSOne Emulator and a FFVII ROM. :3

 

[cmpsalvestrini]

Re: Final Fantasy VII PC Help.

Gladly, there is a way to run FFVII on the PC with Windows Vista. It involves several steps and a little patience, but it will hopefully work. Here's what I did:

1) Installed the game by running the program as an administrator.
2) Applied the FF7 Upside Down movie patch.
3) Applied the FF7 1.02 official patch.
4) Applied Aali's alternate OpenGL Driver for FF7.
5) Applied the Qhimm Chocobo Patch.

At this point the game is XP capable (and by extension Vista capable).

Links:

There is a third party driver developed by Aali, that enables FFVII to use OpenGL, bypassing FF7Config, which should not be used at all. It is found over at Qhimm's site.

Link to follow for the basic patches for XP/Vista:

http://wiki.qhimm.com/FF7/Technical/Customising (Use the links on the "Essentials" section)


Link to follow for Aali's OpenGL FF7 driver:

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8306.0 (Simply extract the .zip file to the directory containing FF7.exe, apply the registry patch (there is one registry patch for x32 and one for x32_64, choose the registry patch following your system's OS architecture, i. e., do not use the registry patch for 64 bit Vista in 32-bit Vista).

If so interested, follow this link for further tweaks to FF7:

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=5124.0 (YAMP, a CLI FF7 patcher with several nifty patches).

As with any old games, FF7 will have to be run as administrator under Vista, otherwise the driver will *not* work. Likewise, the YAMP CLI command must be run as administrator, otherwise it will *not* patch FF7.