Launches beep and closes without starting game

[Mezameta]

i click launch after a moment a black box appears a loud beep plays once then it closes and thats it.

it was working just fine till i changed fully all the configs to have matching graphical details.

[Tsuna]

Sounds like an issue in the settings, are all the locations pointed to the right places?
Libary location should be: Mods/7H
FF7 exe: Whichever to do with the mods your using
Aali modpath: mods/textures
Movies: movies folder

What were the graphics settings that you changed?

[Mezameta]

for FF7.exe its directed to FF7_bc.exe
Lib location is mods\7th Heaven
aali ModPath is mods\Textures
movie path is Data\movies

Graphical mods i edited were, Field models- Objects
Battle models- Enemies and characters
Battle Textures
Field models Main characters and NPCs
Field Textures Part 1 and part 2( Went from options on part 1 to Sasuki option on part 2)
World Models Enemies Characters Vehicles
World Textures

[Tsuna]

Are they all from the catalogue or any custom mods? Does it close itself or just stay black? Try it in windowed mode and see what the error says

[Mezameta]

All from Catalog, No custom mods. Closes its self after opening a black window for 1 second. Window mode or fullscreen does not effect it. same results

[Tsuna]

And you said it worked through 7h before you changed the mods

In your route folder where ff7 is installed there should be like a app log or something. A text file that reports errors

[Mezameta]

This is the App.log
[00000000] INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.8.1b
[00000000] INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
[00000000] INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2 4.5.0 NVIDIA 364.72
[00000000] INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
[00000000] INFO: Using PBO
[00000000] INFO: Found swap_control extension
[00000000] INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
[00000000] INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 3840x2160
[00000000] INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 4096
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
[00000000] INFO: VGMStream music plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
[00000000] LOCK UNLOCK TEST
[00000001] MATRIX INITIALIZE
[00000001] INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
[00000001] initializing sound...

[Tsuna]

This doesn't say anything is wrong. If you want you can get teamvieqer and I'll connect to you and are if I can fix it tommorow

[Mezameta]

i think somehow a file got broke or something gonna just reinstall and all that fun stuff. Not like i got to redownload the mods atleast

[EQ2Alyza]

You don't need to reinstall. Just run the GC again, choose to overwrite, and be sure a sound device is set when you get to the part with FF7Config.

[Chrysalis]

I am having the same issue now, game not been touched, simply put it worked when I last ran it couple of years back, now it tries to launch, quick tiny beep then closes.

Game convertor tool seems a mess, applies all sorts of patches.  But I am definitely setting the sound card, and it still does it.  What is that tool even for, just for single mod called reunion which not everyone uses?

my log is here, which indicates it is sound related as thats the last entry.

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[00000000] INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.8.1b
[00000000] INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
[00000000] INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.5.0 NVIDIA 385.41
[00000000] INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
[00000000] INFO: Using PBO
[00000000] INFO: Found swap_control extension
[00000000] INFO: Max texture size: 32768x32768
[00000000] INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1400x1050, output resolution 1400x1050, internal resolution 1920x1440
[00000000] INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 4096
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
[00000000] INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
[00000000] LOCK UNLOCK TEST
[00000001] MATRIX INITIALIZE
[00000001] INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
[00000001] initializing sound...
ok I have some progress on debugging, it launches fine (with sound) if I directly launch from ff7.exe.

So the shut down is related to 7thheaven somehow.

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found another post on here, I had to manually go in my registry and set the hex value for my sound card to all zero's, after that the game runs via 7thheaven.

[LordUrQuan]

I am having the same issue now, game not been touched, simply put it worked when I last ran it couple of years back, now it tries to launch, quick tiny beep then closes.

Many are the previously-working installs that have been broken by a Microsoft patch.  Re-running the converter is typically sufficient to fix it, though in your case since it's been so long, it probably wouldn't hurt to use the registry cleaning tool first so that the converter is presented with what it thinks is a clean slate.

Game convertor tool seems a mess, applies all sorts of patches.  But I am definitely setting the sound card, and it still does it.  What is that tool even for, just for single mod called reunion which not everyone uses?

Others have also called it a mess, but it does what it's designed to do... drop in aali's OpenGL driver with a default config that should work for nearly everybody, implement the necessary folder structures for 7H to work, call ff7_config and set the necessary registry keys, then apply the cd and (optional) laptop patches.  As for Reunion, it does drop those .exe files as well, but there's a lot more going on under the hood.