Clearing the garage I found an old ‘lost’ love – Final Fantasy VII, one of the few great games I never managed to finish (life, work and college got in the way).
So a full ten years after it came out I discover that the CD’s still work, I Install it on my XP system, install the Final Fantasy VII XP patch to get rid of unwanted bugs, and to improve the display, only to discover the Nvidia patch partially works – I can have 16x SA and Anitrosptropic filtering on max but I have no background – just a black playing field.
Not too disheartened I extrapolate a radical approach:
I have a friend who owns an old Voodoo 2 card and a PCI Express 2D card (they use a follow through connection which the monitor is attached).
I remove my 6800 Ultra since it has only dual DVI, ( I lost the DVI > VGA converters) and replace it with my 9800XT, install the voodoo 2, and download the unofficial voodoo 2 XP drivers. Checking that the voodoo 2 is set as the primary display I launch the Final Fantasy config console – IT WORKS.
Only thing is I swear voodoo uses Glide and not Direct 3D.
How do I get Glide working ?
Also will the new mods (normal characters instead of lego wannabees work with the voodoo ?)