I currently have an ATi Radeon 64MB and since it doesn't have support (?) for 8-bit textures, I can't play Final Fantasy VII with hardware support. I currently have a 1.2GHz T-Bird at 1.54GHz with 384MB of RAM, so I'm looking for a cheap card that'd probably play Final Fantasy VII at full speed on my computer. Anyone have any suggestions?
What card does Final Fantasy VII run best on?
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There is a D3D patch for FF7.
Check www.eidos.com They call it a TNT patch, but it should work fine with your card.
Check www.eidos.com They call it a TNT patch, but it should work fine with your card.
By the way, you don't need support for 8-bit palettized textures. It doesn't affect the game at all.
Final Fantasy VII looks crappy on the Playstation. Fuzzy textures, warping textures, flat textures (on the PC version too, however; especially in battles in the forest).
I've tried two D3D patches for Final Fantasy VII and both of them screw up the textures in the game (at the beginning and at both of my save spots later in the game, is that a coincidence?), so I've never really messed with any of those.
I've tried two D3D patches for Final Fantasy VII and both of them screw up the textures in the game (at the beginning and at both of my save spots later in the game, is that a coincidence?), so I've never really messed with any of those.
it's such a shame they haven't rebuilt the game for use on PC cause this is my fav game of all time and i was looking for it for ages, along game someone who had it and sold it too me, i found out that it was just a straight conversion to the PC at a res of 640x480, which looks pants.
i have a voodoo 3 2000 PCI on a k6/2/500 with 128Mb RAM in D3D it's running smooth only in dio's battle arena and the chocobo racing arena, where you places bets etc i get a little slowdown for some reason, but in every other place in the game it's fast, i think the 3dfx cards work pretty good on it but still at this res it's gonna be bad anyway right?
i'm kinda getting used to it actualy and i'm sure it's getting better the further in the game i get.
i would like to know however if a graphics card that supports FSAA would make this game look smother, i'm thinking of getting a decent graphics card soon and i'm possibly getting a kyro2, does anyone know if FSAA will make a difference or not?
another thing is why the hell does the FMV look so sh!te? in normal windows media player it looks ten times as better than in the game in full screen, should this happen? i remember it looking damn smooth on the PSX.
i have a voodoo 3 2000 PCI on a k6/2/500 with 128Mb RAM in D3D it's running smooth only in dio's battle arena and the chocobo racing arena, where you places bets etc i get a little slowdown for some reason, but in every other place in the game it's fast, i think the 3dfx cards work pretty good on it but still at this res it's gonna be bad anyway right?
i'm kinda getting used to it actualy and i'm sure it's getting better the further in the game i get.
i would like to know however if a graphics card that supports FSAA would make this game look smother, i'm thinking of getting a decent graphics card soon and i'm possibly getting a kyro2, does anyone know if FSAA will make a difference or not?
another thing is why the hell does the FMV look so sh!te? in normal windows media player it looks ten times as better than in the game in full screen, should this happen? i remember it looking damn smooth on the PSX.
The Rage128 runs it good since it has support for 8-bit palletized textures. Same with the Savage3d/4 series. I'm surprise the Radeon doesn't support 8-bit palletized textures.
<< By the way, you don't need support for 8-bit palettized textures. It doesn't affect the game at all >>
yes you do. the menu graphics are messed up if you don't
Ah, memories...my first FF game for the PC...
Anyway, like most have said, it runs best in Glide. I tried to run it with the Direct3D patch back on my TNT2 (Viper V770 to be precise), but it would crash whenever I got to the overworld. So I gave up on it. More recently however, I've had a Voodoo2 flying around between systems for nothing more than Glide compatability (I'm surprised how well that card still works for UT!) and it's still best in Glide.
If you wanted a truly "cheap" card, with your fast setup, a Voodoo Banshee would probably do the job. Here's an idea if you're crazy enough (or just have a free PCI slot); put the PCI Banshee into your system along with your current ATi card. Get a splitter to run the monitor to both video cards. But disable multimonitor support in Windows. When you want to game with Glide, reboot your system, quickly change the BIOS setting to boot from AGP to PCI instead, and go. If you feel like changing back, just change the BIOS setting again.
It's a bit convoluted and may seem silly at first, but that's what I'm going to be doing very soon...otherwise just do what I originally did and get a Voodoo2 card.
If you've got a free PCI slot, it's a good little "tool" to have around for Glide emulation (Ultra64 anyone? I still play MarioKart64 from time to time...)
Anyway, like most have said, it runs best in Glide. I tried to run it with the Direct3D patch back on my TNT2 (Viper V770 to be precise), but it would crash whenever I got to the overworld. So I gave up on it. More recently however, I've had a Voodoo2 flying around between systems for nothing more than Glide compatability (I'm surprised how well that card still works for UT!) and it's still best in Glide.
If you wanted a truly "cheap" card, with your fast setup, a Voodoo Banshee would probably do the job. Here's an idea if you're crazy enough (or just have a free PCI slot); put the PCI Banshee into your system along with your current ATi card. Get a splitter to run the monitor to both video cards. But disable multimonitor support in Windows. When you want to game with Glide, reboot your system, quickly change the BIOS setting to boot from AGP to PCI instead, and go. If you feel like changing back, just change the BIOS setting again.
It's a bit convoluted and may seem silly at first, but that's what I'm going to be doing very soon...otherwise just do what I originally did and get a Voodoo2 card.
If you've got a free PCI slot, it's a good little "tool" to have around for Glide emulation (Ultra64 anyone? I still play MarioKart64 from time to time...)TRENDING THREADS
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