Well, I beat FF9 and came back to FF7 to beat it again. And WOW! I'd freezes in the flashback at Aeris' house right after the Sector VII collapse. It freezes there every time. Any idea whats wrong? Here are my system specs:
Intel Celeron 400MHz
256MB of PC100 SDRAM
Abit Motherboard
Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Studio DC10 Plus Motion Capture Card
10/100 Ethernet Adapter
56.6kbps analog modem
21 Inch Monitor (HP A4331D)
Heres what its running:
Windows 98
1024x786 resolution at 16 bit color
Active Desktop is off
510MB of Virtual memory
I just ran a thorough scandisc and a defrag of both of my hard drives. I have the latest drivers as well. Please help!
Type Dxdiag in the windows run box, under the Start button.
Go to Sound...and move the Sound acceleration to Basic. It will be the second notch from the left. See if that works, and when you move on to another program/game, put it back to full acceleration.
Then...try reinstalling FF7 (use the big installation). Make sure that the disks are nice and clean. Last resort would be to try softwaremode quaterscreen, to get pass the area and then go back to 3d mode, full screen.
Also disable any anti alaising, if you have it on....or any other extra options that the card has.
[This message has been edited by Threesixty (edited April 11, 2001).]
Another thing you can try is go to Add/remove programs....windows setup....multimedia....
make sure you have your windows CD.
and deselect Audio and video Compression, Apply. Reboot and then recheck them, reboot.
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There is one more thing...but it's risky. I think windows will reload them. At least it did on my Win95 machine. But I take no responsiblility if, for some reason, it messes up your mediaplayer or something.
First I download a newer version of mediaplayer...then...
What I did is the same as the above, I deselect audio and video compression and then went to the Multimedia icon in the Control Panel....I went to the Advance Tab....I open the Audio Compression Codes and Video Compression Codes...and I removed all of them that windows would allow me to remove.
I then rebooted...rechecked those Audio and video compression boxes....installed the newest version multiplayer (6.?(can't remember the version), it was a while back) rebooted...and FF7 worked fine.
Most of the stuff I removed manually, in the Advance Tab, magically reappeared.
My problem at the time was lousy framerates during the movies. and only after removing the stuff manualy, the problem went away.
your problem is different, so even the above may not work..... (at the time I was going to reinstall windows...turned out I didn't have to)
any idea what it means?
Guess you can try the Yamaha driver, and if your using the Yamaha driver, go to the regular driver. and CTR ALt DEL - end program, all programs except Explorer.
It has to be either a bad install or the sound, The flashback isn't a FMV (AVI file). I don't believe that the CD-rom is being accessed at that point of the game. So I'm going to guess either your install disk went bad or a temp file that is stored from Disk 1 to your HD is bad...or it's sound related.
I have no idea what that error thing means.....it says something about FF7.exe. I wonder if that means it's a problem with FF7.exe or if it is another file. The FF7.exe file is about 5.5megs..... anyone know which file contains the flashback? Maybe we/I can just E-mail him an uncorrupt file or something. (unless it's way too big...I'm on a modem.)
Good luck in figuring out what caused it...
To check whether his file's the same as yours you could checksum it, just agree on how you're going to do it.
I was hoping that someone would state:
"Yup all the flashbacks are located in the filename:
????moviecam.lgp???? (that one is 2megs)