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General Discussion / Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread

« on: 2012-07-05 09:57:42 »

I hope this doesn't make things obsolete around here. I'd much rather enjoy the what you all make rather than what they do.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Bootleg Configurator and FF7 Mod Installation

« on: 2012-07-01 20:19:23 »

I have a full Bootleg installation and every time I fight Emerald weapon, the game crashes. I've tried Safe, default and HDR settings in the boot-loader without any luck.

It always happens after a while in the match, maybe after beating him? I'm not sure

APP.LOG

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 4.2.11554 Compatibility Profile Context
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: Shader limits: varying 128, vert uniform 16384, frag uniform 16384
INFO: vertex shader compile log:
Vertex shader was successfully compiled to run on hardware.

INFO: fragment shader compile log:
Fragment shader was successfully compiled to run on hardware.

INFO: main program link log:
Vertex shader(s) linked, fragment shader(s) linked.

INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Games\FF7\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
stop_sound
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
set music volume: 127
stop_sound
stop_sound
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
set music volume: 127
stop_sound
stop_sound
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
set music volume: 127
stop_sound
stop_sound
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
set music volume: 127
stop_sound
-=-=[END OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Swirl sound_effect1
stop_sound
End of Swirl sound_effect1
Entering FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE
[BATTLE] Scene# 986
[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE
[BATTLE] Begin main battle loop
ERROR: invalid version in polygon file /FF7/DATA/BATTLE/SUMMON/KNIGHTS/KNIGHT02.P15
ERROR: invalid version in polygon file /FF7/DATA/BATTLE/SUMMON/KNIGHTS/KNIGHT03.P18
ERROR: invalid version in polygon file /FF7/DATA/BATTLE/SUMMON/KNIGHTS/KNIGHT02.P15
ERROR: invalid version in polygon file /FF7/DATA/BATTLE/SUMMON/KNIGHTS/KNIGHT03.P18
ERROR: unhandled exception


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FF7 Tools / Re: [RELEASE v1.9.6]: Black Chocobo - FF7 Save Game Editor

« on: 2012-06-17 20:00:34 »

I have two wonderful chocobos inside the barn now. How can I use Black Chocobo to make them Great and Good?

Thanks

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Black Mesa 2012 media - prepping for release

« on: 2012-06-13 21:17:06 »

I've been waiting so long for this game, it's gonna be awesome when it gets released

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Bootleg Configurator and FF7 Mod Installation

« on: 2012-06-10 17:42:53 »

This tool looks pretty sweet. Do I have to download every mod that is red in the "supported mods" list?

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FF7 Tools / Re: [REL] FacePalmer v2.9 (dramatically improved pre-rendered backgrounds for ff7!)

« on: 2012-06-09 16:33:12 »

Yeah, I just wondering about if I ever met a glitched texture when I played the game, will I be stuck or can I just walk out of that screen and find a save game and then remove that texture?

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FF7 Tools / Re: [REL] FacePalmer v2.9 (dramatically improved pre-rendered backgrounds for ff7!)

« on: 2012-06-09 16:25:08 »

Will these glitches textures have me start from a previous save or do I get a change to go back and save if I happen to meet one of the buggy ones? 

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Releases / Re: [REL] FF7Voice Working Files (game script, etc)

« on: 2012-06-09 16:22:56 »

Oh, and even if it existed, it's a slim chance that Dziugo will let anyone try it again I guess.

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FF7 Tools / Re: [REL] FacePalmer v2.9 (dramatically improved pre-rendered backgrounds for ff7!)

« on: 2012-06-09 16:04:42 »

You are correct, try unzipping everything again. I ran into same problem when I first did this mod, tried again and unzipped correctly second time.
Also, bootleg can do this for you.

When you have to find and download everything anyway, then I don't see how bootleg can make it any easier on my part. I will try and extract everything again, seems like I found out how to do it right this time.

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Releases / Re: [REL] FF7Voice Working Files (game script, etc)

« on: 2012-06-09 15:44:41 »

It would be nice if we could have a shot at it though, was there ever any preview of how this worked in-game? Maybe if we get enough people we could try and cast the first mission with voice acting, that would be cool 

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FF7 Tools / Re: [REL] FacePalmer v2.9 (dramatically improved pre-rendered backgrounds for ff7!)

« on: 2012-06-09 15:37:55 »

I'm kind of stuck myself I think. I just want to play the game with the graphics I downloaded, but I'm not sure if I installed it correctly or because I just haven't encountered any new fixed scenes yet.

I unzipped FacePalmer.zip and then unzipped all the parts inside that folder again into each separate folder, then I moved the whole FacePalmer directory into the "mods" directory created by Aali's driver, and edited the modpath. Is that all I have to do? I'm currently just on the second bombing mission so I might have not yet encountered anything improved yet.

Also whenever I unzip one of the texture archives inside FacePalmer directory I get this path; e.x: ancnt1.rar = Facepalmer\ancnt1\ancnt1

To me that seems wrong and should only have been Facepalmer\ancnt1\.

Thanks in advance

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General Discussion / Re: IRC?

« on: 2012-06-09 12:57:23 »

I believe you need a passcode to enter it seems.

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General Discussion / Re: IRC?

« on: 2012-06-09 12:28:48 »

There should really be an official Qhimm IRC channel, it's easy to use. Freenode has excellent services.

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Releases / Re: FF7Music Installer

« on: 2012-06-09 12:12:56 »

Oh, I see. I always figured sounds and music was just stored in a folder and you could just replace them with a better quality recomposition or something.

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Releases / Re: [REL] FF7Voice Working Files (game script, etc)

« on: 2012-06-09 12:11:29 »

I know this is probably dead, but if anyone is interested, I'm interested to do some voice acting. So if something is ever started up again, I'm in.

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Releases / Re: FF7Music Installer

« on: 2012-06-09 12:04:40 »

I have one question..

What exactly is FF7music?

also, the remastered tracks aren't working because it can't seem to download due to the files being unavailable

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FF7Voice / Re: Discussion of FF7Voice

« on: 2012-05-05 12:21:00 »

How is this project coming along? Is the project leader still available? I'd like to help out if I may.

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General Discussion / Re: Shinra's horrible management...

« on: 2010-06-15 00:18:53 »

It seems like controlling the world with fear was a bad idea after he found out he couldn't build airplanes with it.

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General Discussion / Re: Shinra's horrible management...

« on: 2010-06-14 23:38:11 »

I also didn't understand why Rufus neede the Tiny Bronco, but if I rememeber clearly, the Highwind didn't work at the time in the game. Think about it, Shinra has millions of gil to spend, why steal some dirty old plane from 900 B.C?

'tis foolishness.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8

« on: 2010-05-29 18:20:52 »

How would you go about disabling it? I think it's a pain going back and forth with the version each time the game crashes. I also let the game run a bit after the crash and the log file was over 3GB when I shut the game down, pretty funny.

I'd stay with an earlier version, but I'm currently testing the game out with all the newest mods and stuff so I don't really wanna enjoy playing it, but rather just get through it so I use the speedhack which is only available with the newest version of the driver.

Well you can still run the game with the speedhack without the latest driver. Search for it. I think it was in the Game Tweaking section. It uses a patch and you can use an older version of the driver with that patch.

Indeed, but would mean I have to modify to the executable in order to run the library and I honestly believe that my executable is already modified enough so I would just ruin things The GUI overhaul didn't seem to work either when I went back a few versions.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8

« on: 2010-05-29 17:55:27 »

How would you go about disabling it? I think it's a pain going back and forth with the version each time the game crashes. I also let the game run a bit after the crash and the log file was over 3GB when I shut the game down, pretty funny.

I'd stay with an earlier version, but I'm currently testing the game out with all the newest mods and stuff so I don't really wanna enjoy playing it, but rather just get through it so I use the speedhack which is only available with the newest version of the driver.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8

« on: 2010-05-29 16:16:14 »

I seem to have a problem opening wind.wav with Aali's new driver. It might be because I use such an overflow of modifications though. I installed the newest Remix patcher by TiteGuy and the latest project pack by Team Avalanche. I can just change to an older version of the driver though, but I assume the wind.wav is a fie that will be loaded more than twice in the game. The first time I was stuck was when Barret was about to fight Dyne and then it crashed again last night after Cid escaped from his town from the Shinra.

Anyway, I love the new driver, nice work Aali

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2010-05-24 21:42:07 »

How can I use the latest version of Aali's driver with this pack of modifications. Currently it crashes when it is entering the start menu selection screen.

APP.LOG

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.7b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series 3.2.9252 Compatibility Profile Context
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1920x1080, output resolution 1440x1080, internal resolution 1920x1440
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Fragment shader(s) linked, vertex shader(s) linked.
 
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not read from file C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; rawvideo/null 364x353, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 0.066667, frames: 1
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\sqlogo.avi; mpeg4/mp3 640x480, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 247.466667, frames: 3712
INFO: Fragment shader(s) linked, vertex shader(s) linked.
 
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/menu/buster_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
ERROR: Texture could not be compressed
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save00.ff7

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Team Avalanche / Re: Resolution

« on: 2010-01-04 10:14:51 »

1920x1080 here!

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Troubleshooting / Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8 [v.1-.7.6]

« on: 2010-01-01 11:32:02 »

He already added one, you just have to buy a better video card or a new computer for it to work.
Seriously, that's something that just can't be done here. You want better FPS? Lower the resolution, turn off shaders, or get a better computer. This isn't a graphically demanding application.

Now, rage aside, this just isn't something that's technically feasible or a priority. You can't just "speed it up" under normal circumstances. Aali might find some sort of optimization that would make the game faster, but that's not likely to happen, nor is it a priority. On ordinary hardware, this game runs with no performance issues, and the custom driver already makes it faster.

Don't worry about my specs, they are top notch, but I remember I used a side-effect of Dziugo's patches that made the FPS increase because I think the game is generally slow. I'm not complaining or anything, I just asked if it was a possibility.