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So after a long time of not playing, I decided I wanted to play FF7 again. I ran 7th Heaven, updated it, went to launch, and the window opens, then instantly closes. I don't know why it would do that, since this is the literal exact configuration that worked perfectly fine before updating 7th Heaven. I changed absolutely nothing, yet it doesn't work now. Any ideas?

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Is there a reason that Menu - Background and Avatars has no effect at all, even with no other mods activated? Spell Textures doesn't seem to do anything either, or at the very least the Limit Break graphic never works.

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Okay, screw it.  After 3 hours of fiddling with it, I give up. How do I change key items? The instructions in the editor do absolutely nothing, and there's no reason I should have to create an account for an external site just to look at the user manual so don't tell me to do that.

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@Leafia_Barrett
Check if the path is correct in the FF7opengl.cfg
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# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
mod_path = Textures

You use the new battle menu, which can't work with the normal files and needs its high res fonts. This has nothing to do with your system setup.
Yep, it's correct.

Is there a reason that Menu - Background and Avatars has no effect at all, even with no other mods activated?

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Okay first of all try this and see if it fixes any of the font issues you are having.
-Right click anywhere on your desktop and select "Personalize"
-On the bottom left it should say "See Also" Under that click "Display".
-Make sure your settings are like this and then see if that fixes anything in game if you changed your settings to match these.
No dice.

Okay, this may require a bit of your time but I think I may be able to point you in the right direction to fix your APP store and any corrupted files you may have on your computer :D. Which in turn may allow you to upgrade your drivers and fix your graphical glitches.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833/en-us
Please read that and follow it step for step! My windows store was also corrupted when I used updated to 8.1 and then used CCCleaner and I may have deleted some important registries or hidden folders. This helped me fix it.
Tried that already, didn't help any.

Once you have repaired the core system files that are damaged on your computer it might be safe to update your windows to 8.1 and/or your graphics driver. Keep in mind when you upgrade to windows 8.1 it will set your icons back to large again and you will need to set them back to small like I showed in the picture above. When I had them on large/medium this was causing graphical issues for me.
Honestly I don't see why I should update to 8.1 anyhow. Does it really add anything besides compatibility issues?

Edit: Oh also Leafia, do you remember what the error message you received was when your computer blue screened? Was it Driver_State_Power_failure followed by a bunch of numbers/letters? This could be an indication of a few things.
Nope. I went ahead and tried updating, and it worked this time. Still didn't help, though.

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Okay so your graphics card is Nvidia Geforce GT 750m? I also use this card. Is your laptop SLI, do you have another GT 750m? I'm no expert with computers but I'm wondering if your card might be forcing SLI and its causing graphical glitches. Don't worry if it is, it's simple to fix this.
I don't know what you mean by SLI, but the only other graphics card on this laptop is the Intel Integrated one, and yes, I'm sure the game's not using that.

Is your computer running windows 8.1? If it is I have some more ideas on what might be causing this.
Windows 8.0. Can't update because an earlier update to Windows 8 corrupted my profile and when I fixed the profile, the files for all the Windows apps were completely missing (including the Store, which there's apparently no way to repair).

Also have you used Geforce experience to update your graphics card drivers? The latest version for the GT 750m is 344.75 which does not match up with the number you gave us. It could be you had a bad installation of your old driver. When the new one installs don't run anything else while it goes.
Last time I tried to update, my computer bluescreened and I had to reinstall the old driver in safe mode. If the driver's bad, then it's never shown itself as such before now.

Also don't use Red Werewolf I remember reading earlier that it was causing some major issues for other people as well. Try leaving just that disabled. I have had some graphical glitches due to the menu overhaul at times but nothing major or persistent.
Thing is, each of those mods causes the glitch independently, not just in combination with each other.

One more thing, try checking full screen but unchecking  V-Sync and new timer. Also do you know what the refresh rate of your monitor is? Usually its 60hz 120hz or 144hz.
No luck, and I haven't a clue.

With Red Werewolf, did you click on Configure and select the option that corresponds with what you selected in Gameplay - Difficulty and Story? The drop-down menus are identical so that the flevel/scene work with Red Werewolf correctly. Having different options selected will not work; however, I did not put together those patches nor test them all in a full playthrough. 32 different difficulty and story mods are too much for one person to test. It could be that Wolfman and cmh175 didn't patch them correctly.
Yes, they were both set to the same thing, which is to say, absolutely nothing. They were both on "no change".

Side note: Any idea which of the mods, if any, would cause the game to crash upon trying to start the motorcycle chase minigame? Like, as soon as I hit start to begin the scene, the game throws an error and asks if I want to make an emergency save (an emergency save that loads me immediately into the following fight with everyone on 1 HP, which means an instant game over). I ended up just using the unmodded game to go through that segment, because I didn't feel like troubleshooting 2 dozen mods, or however many are in the catalogue provided in the OP. I know it's not Battle Models - Enemies, because I tried playing with that mod off, and it crashed anyways.

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Well, I realized I was using the Bootleg game converter instead of the 7H one, but uninstalling (and removing all registry keys), reinstalling fresh, and using the correct game converter didn't help, assuming there's any difference at all.

Nvidia GeForce ______what?

Inside 7H, go to Workshop -> OpenGL drive configuration. Screenshots of the tabs would be nice.
GeForce 750M 335.23

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28505565/bluh/ff7/tab_1.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28505565/bluh/ff7/tab_2.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28505565/bluh/ff7/tab_3.png

Edit: Testing has revealed that it's caused by the Red Werewolf, Gameplay - Difficulty and Story, and Menu Overhaul mods all cause this bug. What do they have in common?

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What is your GPU and OpenGL Driver Configurations?
GPU is Nvidia GeForce and I don't know what you mean by OpenGL driver configuration.

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From my experience this usually happens when you either previously had Bootleg installed so the registry is messed up and it's calling on something that it can't find (usually to do with Menu Overhaul) or a set of mods are conflicting and so everything is off sync. you'll usually know by starting the game and the very first battle will be some crazy horse strawberries

No strawberries, but the HP/MP display was a couple different kinds of screwed.


Anyhow, I did have Bootleg installed prior to this, but I uninstalled it and wiped FF7 and any registry keys from my computer before this. And no, turning off Menu Overhaul doesn't help.

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Is there a retranslation mod that 7thHeaven can use, or is that restricted to Bootleg?

Also, any idea why the text would be doing this?

The text is crowded and overlaps itself.
Reasking, as I never got an answer and the bug is persisting. It affects all text boxes, not just the New Game/Continue page.

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That has something to do with the Translation I think.  If you had it checked, I suggest installing Bootleg without the translation checked, then install the translation with Reunion.
Reunion? What's that?

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Is there a retranslation mod that 7thHeaven can use, or is that restricted to Bootleg?

Also, any idea why the text would be doing this?

The text is crowded and overlaps itself.

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Okay, so just to clarify. If mods simply refuse to download and do NOT give an error (they simply stay at 0% permanently), is that still just Google Drive being a butt?

Also, is Red Werewolf's configuration supposed to look LITERALLY identical to Gameplay - Difficulty and Story?

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Did download all mods from the torrent? Did you follow the instructions? Make sure all directories are set correctly. Make sure you're installing mods on top of a fresh install of FF7. I'm not sure what 7thHeaven is but it sounds like you're trying to do 2 things at the same time. A recipe for disaster.
I downloaded any and all red mods on the list Bootleg provided, but no, I did not download the torrent, because it would have taken approximately a solid week to download. I can not overstate how absolutely garbage my internet is.
I followed every instruction, yes.
All the directories are correctly set. I double checked to be sure.
All mods are installed over a completely fresh install. I wiped the game off of my computer (with the tools provided to get rid of registry entries in a different post) after my first attempt, in which I missed a couple steps somehow. This is on my second attempt.
I'm not attempting to use 7thHeaven (a separate mod loader that dynamically loads mods rather than altering the files) with Bootleg, I was simply asking if it could be done, as there's a mod for Tifa that I want to use, but it's not in a format that Bootleg can do anything with, and I have absolutely 0 idea how to get it into said format, much less add it via Bootleg.

It's worth noting that the game DOES work, and the majority of the mods installed successfully. After Barret's dialogue (which should be changed but isn't, ReTranslation apparently failed to patch) pops up, if I open the menu, then close it, the game's screen goes back to normal. It still has no music, though.

7th Heaven and Bootleg can be used together. But if you play with the thought to use 7H the you should swap to it over entirely, because the custom driver Bootleg needs is outdated. The latest driver has a native music support.
Well, can 7thHeaven do everything Bootleg can, and can it accept the same file formats as Bootleg?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg
« on: 2014-11-26 22:25:12 »
Okay, so I'm having the "no cutscenes and black screen" glitch. I looked at the movies folder, and it's almost completely empty - mkup.avi and opening.avi are both 0 bytes, as well (eidoslogo.avi is fine and works in-game). Yes, I have all the mods necessary, or at least Bootleg says I do - no red mods anywhere. I looked in the mod folder and most of the .zips can't be opened, and most of the ones I can open throw an error when I try to extract anything.
I also don't have any music, which I assume is an unrelated thing. Yes, I installed the music patch. I haven't a clue on this one.

Unrelated, but is there a way to run both 7thHeaven and Bootloader at the same time?

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