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Problems playing FF8 on PC, game crashes and more
« on: 2001-03-24 15:06:00 »
I have problems playing FF8 on the PC. I have a Pentium 3 - 900mhz, a geforce2mx and 256 mb ram. At first there are graphic problems. In normal scenes the screen is cut in coulor surrounded blocks. I have the geforce patch installed v 1.2 but it doesn't help. The second and greatest problem is that the game crashes in one special scene so that i can't play any further. On CD2 in balamb garden just before u reach fisherman's horizon, after the white seeds have docked u must search for Ellione which is in the library. But every time i want to enter it the game crashes. I tried to reinstall the game but this didn't work either. Please help me out if u can. Do u have these problems too?
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« Reply #1 on: 2001-03-24 16:14:00 »
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« Reply #2 on: 2001-03-25 03:51:00 »
You should read the FF8 readme.  It tells you what to do.  You should also read the patche's readme to make sure you're doing everything correctly.
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« Reply #3 on: 2001-03-30 08:15:00 »
Take a look at this thread....

http://qhimm.3dstream.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000023.html" TARGET=_blank>http://qhimm.3dstream.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000023.html

I downloaded the FF8 patch from Adrenaline Vaults and I installed the 6.50 nvidia Drivers (these are the only drivers, I found to work 100% with FF8), from their web site....the link for AV is in that above thread. If you got the patch from EA...I think there Download is messed up, use Adrenaline's I know for a fact that it has the True Geforce patch.

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« Reply #4 on: 2001-04-03 14:13:00 »
Is the CD scratched? it could be the problem. The game might not be able to read the sector and it crashed. Check the CD.
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« Reply #5 on: 2001-04-04 21:06:00 »
Thanks to all who tried to help me. But the problems are still there. I also have found out some interesting things about the patch. First special thanks to Threesixty. I did install the 6.50 Detonator Driver and I downloaded the Geforce Patch v1.2 from avault.com. I installed both. But i can't start the game anymore! The game immediatly crashes to desktop. Only trying to go to 640x480 resolution (the black box in the upper left corner), one second black and zap! Back to desktop. I figured out that this is caused by the patch. I installed "my 1.2" version again and it worked. But still with the old problems. I also figured out that the patch I downloaded from the official publisher Eidos is NOT v1.2. Also there is a text file in the zip archive which says v1.2 the patch cannot be this version. At avault.com there are the fixes listed for the real 1.2 patch i downloaded then. These are exactly the problems i have (crash before Norg!) what is a proof for the case that the other patch is the wrong one. Also I noticed that Squaresoft now works together with EA. Is that right? Because I never found a patch called FF8SqeaNVPatch.zip yet(Sq for squaresoft and ea for electronic arts). The one I downloaded from Eidos is called ff8gf12g.zip. To come back to my problem: It could be that the crash is caused by a wrong patch. I downloaded it twice but no succes. I also have the German version (because i am German) of the game and if the patch is only for the english one...... Does the "new" patch crash on your PCs too or is anybody there which has the german version and the "new" patch and can tell me how it works on his/her system? Please awnser!
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« Reply #6 on: 2001-04-05 00:31:00 »
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« Reply #7 on: 2001-04-05 16:29:00 »
Awe man....

You beat me to it....I found this web site through Yahoo.
   http://www.tweak3d.net/faq/index.shtml#sw:gam:ff8:hl" TARGET=_blank>http://www.tweak3d.net/faq/index.shtml#sw:gam:ff8:hl  
when it loads up the page..it will jump to the patches...just have a little patients, it may take a while for it to load up.

It shows all versions of the Geforce patches for FF8. It looks like a really good Geforce Q&A web site. I'm putting it in my Favorites.

Putting your Gamedomain on my Fav., too. (Never surfed into Gamedomain, before)

[This message has been edited by Threesixty (edited April 05, 2001).]

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« Reply #8 on: 2001-04-06 16:35:00 »
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« Reply #9 on: 2001-04-11 06:21:00 »
I too have experienced this mess, just switch to software rendering if you can't fix it any other way. Thats what I did, doesn't detract very much from gameplay IMO.
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« Reply #10 on: 2001-04-12 13:00:00 »
I finally found a real Geforce patch on the official German publishers site http://www.eidos.de." TARGET=_blank>www.eidos.de.  The patch wasn't there before. the old one was called ff8gf12g.zip and didn't do anything! The new one is called FF8EidosGerNVPatchV12.zip and finally removes all those problems with geforce cards. The game looks great now.....

.....but it still crashes if you want to go in the library to find Ellione! :-(( I can't play through the game! I have Squall on Level 82 and some Guardian Forces on Level 100 already! (I really love RPGs :-) ) I wrote to Eidos and I hope they'll reply. If there's anyone who is German and has the German version of Final Fantasy 8 please report me if you have this bug too! Or has anyone a working German Geforce patch V1.2 for FF8? Please help me if you can because this game is still great!

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« Reply #11 on: 2001-04-13 08:43:00 »
I recall someone else having a problem with crashes on FF8, and they too, had real high Character Levels. (I usually finish the game at around level 50 or so) I wonder if it is a leveling bug?. Maybe you can try editing the Save Game with an editor (will Greiver work on a German edition?  :)I don't even know if it edit's stats, haven't used it.) and give them all lower stats and see if it stops crashing?
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« Reply #12 on: 2001-04-13 19:35:00 »
Griever works with the German version of the game(that's the reason why I found this great website :-)) I tried the editor some time ago and it worked. But I haven't used any editors or trainers on these savegames I'm playing with now. I only spent much much time with leveling up my chars :-) I played, well lets see..... 35:51.

I'll try your suggestion but I don't think it'll work because I think it's a bug from this v12patch which everybody should know and hate now. I also think it crashes only in the German version because your game works correctly now, or?

The German savegames sure are the same as the ones in other countries. Can you send me a savegame in which you haven't met Ellione yet and in which you are already in Balamb Garden? Before or after Norg. So I can see if it is the fault of the savegame or of the patch. If you have a savegame send it to

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Zipped of course, if you can.

Oh, and sorry for my bad english. Corrections can be posted below :-)

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