How to get Final Fantasy VII to work!!!!!!!!! im going nuts here!!!!!

[Rifter]

Ok here is the deal, i just got FFVII(retail so i know it works ) And it wont work, i got the TNT patch as i use a V550 TNT as my vid card and it will hang and kick me back to windows desktop when any of the following happens(end a fight, cant even get past the first fight, bring up menu, basically do anyhting other than walk which i can only do for a few steps anyways then after the first fight it kicks me back to desktop) And if i reinstall and dont even use the TNT patch and just use software it lets me bring up the menu and everything fine but when i get into the first fight and one of the soldiers goes to use his machine gun all i see is him jumping forward them it saying machine gun and then i get kicked back to windows desktop!!!! what do i do? i would say its not a video card problem considering it does similer things in software mode??? so what do i do? i am using Direct X 7 as it comes stock with windows 2000 which is what i am running, any ideas????? any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

 

[Rifter]

Update, i herd that if you have some games installed on a NTFS partition they might not work right so i installed it on a fat32 partition and it does the same thing! please help.

 

[Thor_Sevan]

This is one of the WORST game EVEN made on PC. While the sory is very good, the code of the PC version just SUCKS BIGTIME. Even on my Athlon 600 system with my G400 max the game isn't that smooth. It just sucks !!! And the graphics are horrible... anyways...

Try reinstalling directx 7 and reinstalling the game.

 

[Rifter]

thanks, i think ill try direct X 8 and see what happens, then ill try installing win98 and seeing if it works, then at least ill know if it is hardware or not

 

[Soulflare]

Eidos did an absolutely terrible job of porting Final Fantasy 7
to the PC and very few people have been able to get that game
working well on their system. I racked my brains out for a week
trying to get that game to work well on my system, and the best
I could do was get it to a point where I could play the game,
but it would have to be re-installed every time I ran it and all
sound in the game would turn on and off at random.

If you have a Playstation, play that version of FF7 instead.

 

[Rifter]

so you are trying to tell me it isnt going to get any better? that i just spent money on a game where i cant even finish one battlle? i refuse to believe that Eidos would put there name on a product that bad, there has to be a way.

 

[SaturnX]

I'm running on PII 400 on a Diamond Viper V770 with the TNT patch, and the game is just as smooth as the PSX version, hrmm.. just for an opinion, I stil think that FF8 was the wosrt port to PC ever made....

--Mark

 

[Rifter]

Tharyn what OS are you running???????????

 

[atom]

It was smooth as butter on my system. Celery 366@550, 128MB RAM, Win98 with Voodoo 2 SLI. Haven't tried it myself in Win2k but I'm betting that may be the problem.

FF8 on the other hand is a complete mess on my system. Can't get it to run smooth no matter what. So I hocked that and bought the PS version.

 

[Ultima]

I never had any problems with it speedwise or quality wise on my 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP/ K6-2 300

 

[culex]

Uhm, FF8's port to the PC was friggin horrid... anyone can admit that right off the back. (I felt the whole game sucked)
FF7 has better graphics compared to the PSX. I dunno what video card other people are running it off of. Overall FF7 wasn't that bad for the PC.

NOW. Rifter, it could be Win2K period... NTFS or FAT32, yer still running it off a NT Kernel. DirectX8 probably won't help any right now (could make it worse) since it's still beta-whatnot.

Try end-tasking all the background programs and stuff. Could be the RAM addressing issue common with 3D games.

Remember that this game is designed to even run on an OS as old as Win95... running it on Win2K could be a bit incompatible period. Ya never know with Winblows tho...

 

[Erasmus-X]

I have never gotten FF7 to run decently on NVIDIA video cards. I'd either get that green "grid" effect or not be able to play the game in 3D hardware mode at all. Funny thing is that the game's PC graphics engine is almost exclusively optimized for Glide, which it runs quiet well in.

Nonetheless, the PSX version of FF7 was far more enjoyable. The movies look like crap on the PC-ported version because they basically just stretched the pixels from standard NTSC resolution to 640x480 (ewwwwww). I couldn't get into FF8 as much. The series is simply getting way too complicated with its micromanagement. When a game gets too darn technical, it becomes no fun to play. I guess that's just my opinion though. I'm waiting for a new Chrono Trigger game from SquareSoft. That SNES game kicked butt!

 

[Rifter]

i was going to upgrade my vid card to a Geforce MX soon but maybe now ill just go for a V3-2000

 

[atom]

<< I'm waiting for a new Chrono Trigger game from SquareSoft. That SNES game kicked butt! >>



Guess you haven't heard of this little game called Chrono Cross.

 

[DeeK]

Erasmus-X: Try adjusting your pixel offset setting in the nVidia control panel. That should get rid of the grid effect.

I'll say it here: FF7 on PC is a poor, pathetic pile of pigeon puke of a playstation port. I have 256MB of RAM, and despite that, using the nVidia patch requires that my swap file be at least 350MB! If that's not bad enough, I've run system monitor and noticed that it doesn't even use the ****ing swap file! It just requires that the swap be there! I wasn't able to get past one certain boss battle in the game because every time, most of the characters in the text boxes would be missing. Ridiculous.

 

[HungChow]

You might try using a glide wrapper/emulator
I never played ff8 but ff7 worked fine for me on TNT chipset
you can probably do a search for &quot;glide wrapper&quot; and find one
I remember theUltra HLE n64 emulator was writen to be used only by 3dfx cards but using a wrapper worked well and fooled it into thinking you had a 3dfx instead of tnt,the 3dfx emulation was very fast and accurate

 

[Rifter]

i think ill just upgrade to a V3, is it much better than a TNT?????