Hi all.
This is a great message board! I've learned a lot from here about tweaking my old FF7PC that's been gathering dust for the past 7 years or so. It looks better than ever with all the new patches!
A question:
When I alt-tab to my desktop at any time in the game and then return to FF7, the next time a battle comes, the game crashes (just before the swirl effect).
Is there any easy way to fix this?
I read a post by Alhexx who said the following:
"The 'swirl' effect, that appears just before the battle causes the crash. FF7 seems to create a screenshot, saves this screenshot and then, swirles that screenshot. Either the buffer allocation for the screenshot fails or it simply stores an illegal pointer. If you NOP out the command that tries to read that buffer, the swirl effect succeeds, however, of course it does not swirl"
Me again:
I realize Alhexx's tactic is very technical, but how exactly do you do this? (what tools and steps exactly)?
I would much rather have the ability to multitask from the game than to have the swirl effect before battles.
Thanks in advance to all readers.
