Game crashes at launch

[Fischkopf]

So I wanted to try out FF VII with the newest catalog, so I did everything according to the tutorial, download all the mods from catalog, launch the game and then I just get a black screen with a crash message. Here is the log:

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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 970/PCIe/SSE2 4.5.0 NVIDIA 358.50
[00000000] INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
[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...
[00000001] creating dsound primary buffer
[00000001] reading audio file
[00000001] loading static sounds
[00000001] sound initialized
[00000001] : unhandled exception
The odd thing is that the exception occurs right after the sound is initialized. I never had that before with 7th heaven... I did all the sound configuring when I converted my game folder, and the sound/midi tests came out working so I really don't get what's the problem here. Using Windows 10 here.

[saftle]

I had the same problem when I didn't run FF7_GameConverter_7H.exe as Administrator.

Run the "FF7_GameConverter_7H.exe" again, but this time as Administrator (Right click, Run as Administrator). Press "O" to overwrite. Once the FF7Config pops up, go to the Sound tab, and make sure the correct device (Sound Driver is selected). Afterwards, test the Center, Left and Right speakers to be sure that sound works. Lastly, close the config and finish the rest of the conversion.

I hope this helps.

[EQ2Alyza]

Be sure you also download the Game Converter again. I updated it for Catalog 2.0.

[Fischkopf]

Be sure you also download the Game Converter again. I updated it for Catalog 2.0.

I would love to try that, but  now 7th Heaven refuses to launch the game and freezes instead... This is insane, I think I'm going back to Windows 8.1 and will try it again then.  This is only one of the many problems I've  had with Windows 10 since I first started using it  so I might as well uninstall this crappy OS.

[EQ2Alyza]

I have Windows 10 and tested everything on it.

[Fischkopf]

I have Windows 10 and tested everything on it.

After lots of trial and error I finally have found the cause of this strange behavior. When I set the field models for the non-player characters to "PRP" instead of "Kaldarasha" it will produce the crash. So I'll just play with Kaldarasha models for now (although I like the PRP ones more). Apparently it didn't have anything to do with my audio device after all.^^