Hi all, i was using the search button for a solution to my problem and i've found this thread.
Basically i've installed the Aali's patch to play with the magDef fix, anyway someone on the forum told me it's the last and one in all better graphic patch so this was also what moved me.
I play on windows XP and just so you know i have a Radeon 9250.
However I have the exact same issue as the guy who posted the topic, but i explain all step by step.
I have 4 graphic options, this is what happens case by case.
a) Software render ---> basic FF VII video interface WORKS, but sucks
b) Direct3D Driver Acceleration ---> i used to play with this using SaiNt's High Res FF7PC Patch v1.00, it runs but the graphic is MUCH confused now and i can't play at all.
c) OpenGL driver (BROKEN) ---> this works in a 640x480 little window or 320x240 littler one, it is positioned at the top left corner of the screen and i can't move it. As a side note, even if ichose 640x480 full screen it still goes there like i chose a quarter screen option.
I can play with it, but is annoying as hell and sometimes pad movements don't work for few seconds for some reason.
Anyway MOVIES don't work, i can skip the first one by clicking, then if i start the game all is black since the intro can't be skipped, i can only play using saves.
d) Custom driver Here we are, the one i need to work... doesn't. When i start FF VII the screen blink in black like is loading then it turn back to the desktop. Actually it's weird because sometimes it doesn't send back nothing, while other times an error gray window tells me about the creation of crash.dmp and APP.log files.
I don't find the button to add files here and since using notepad crash.dmp is full of strange fonts, i copy past only the APP.log :
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. RADEON 9200 Series DDR x86/SSE2 1.3.1062 WinXP Release
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
ERROR: unhandled exception
Note that i could try old 0.6 Aali's version too, but since the MagDef fix is introduced in the last one, i just want to run it
because the MagDef fix is my first concern.Another thing is that the author of the thread posted an image of his plugins directory and I see he has 3 files into it, while i have only 2.
My plugins are : ff7music.fgp and ffmpeg_movies.fgp, i miss the ff7music_wine.
Any problems with that?
Also from the APP.log i see i miss OpenGL 2.0, should i fix it somehow?
So after all of that (i hope i have been exhaustive) any solutions guys? ^_^
P.S.
Sorry for my english, it's 6 A.M., it tooks me 40 minutes to write that and now i want to go bed.