First off, hello all, thanks for having a cool forum that gives support to a cool old game.
Later..... well, here's the story so you can get an idea.
I bought FF7 long ago (no, its not illegal btw, just read that sticky) and played it happily for like, 2 days without even blinking I guess (back in the time, I had an old Pentium II mmx running at 322 mhz and a cheap ATI card that came integrated on the mobo.
The game ran smoothly up until Disc 2, when I reached the Highwind FMV, the movie looks cool and all, but right in the middle the game crashes and there's nothing I can do about it.
Later on, I bought a new computer, it had more video power this time, but still windows 98SE, I reached that part of the game again, biting my nails when it reached that crashing part just to happily see the movie went on and I could continue playing it, that was the first time I finished it he he
Later, that computer suffered modifications and upgrades, included more video, winXP etc etc etc
I didnt try to play it since I was entertained around that time with FF8, but now, I tried installing on XP (with XP patch and everything available to fix problems) just to see it crashes all of a sudden at random places, not the usual parts posted all over the web, like just walking to the reactor entrance in the beginning, I could never get past that part, or even reach the save point.
So...... (Im almost finished I promise) I took that old compaq out of the closet (the one I used in the first place long ago) and thinking that maybe all the new patches around would help me out a bit. But nope, I just got to that same part right now and it still crashes after isntalling almost every patch available (btw, Im still on win 98 on that compaq)
So, thing is... how can I try get around it? I mean, it wont run on XP and nobody does patches or FAQs for win 98
I was thinking I could just install it on my XP computer, patch it and try to pass that section using the win98 save game, but as you may know, the last save point before that movie is like, 40 minutes worth of story before, so that means my XP pc would easily crash during those 40 minutes without even reaching the next save point.
There, I finished...
Can anyone suggest someting? Help me or anything like that?
I can upload the save game to my site so you can check it (must warn you, I used Jenova he he he, I just wanted to replay the game, sotry and all, basically revive the story, not the fights)
Thanks all for reading! Hope youc an help out