FF8 tweaking and correction.

[KojiroTakenashi]

Ok, what's out there tweak-wise? All I'm aware of is the soundfont project...
Also, I'm running the latest detonator drivers on my Geforce 2 Pro, and I can't get the textures or menue boxes to look correct.
I KNOW there should be an easy way to fix this, and I'm pretty sure I used to know it...
Anyone out there wanna help?

[Ant]

I can't remeber exactly but I think someone made a patch where you could run FF8 in a window at any resolution which is pretty cool.

Is it Fice or Dag, I aint sure, u'd better ask them.

[KojiroTakenashi]

Hmm...I don't mind full screen, considering the movies look better that way.
I'm interested. Fice, Dag, either of you two listenin' out there?

[ficedula]

Neither, AFAIK. I made a patch that lets you run FF7 run in 32-bit colour, or in a window, but not at different resolutions. Nothing like that for FF8, again AFAIK  

[KojiroTakenashi]

Well gee, 32 bit colour is just fine with me!
Where?

[Sukaeto]

Hmm . . . Do you have Riva Tuner?  You can enable support for 8-bit palette textures in it.  (If your texture errors are weird black boxes around textures and backgrounds, this should fix it.)

Also, there are two different versions of the FF8 v1.2 patch: a GeForce one and a Non-Geforce one.  It is EXTREMELY easy to get these two files confused.  Double check to make sure you have the GeForce one.

[This message has been edited by TiadaghtonDude (edited September 25, 2001).]

[KojiroTakenashi]

doubled checked. NV Patch. I've got it alright...
Riva Tuner? Hmmm...I use Geforce Tweak...

[Threesixty]

Use the Det 6.5 for FF8......

You can try the 12.41 (it works fine with FF7, haven't tried it with FF8).

[KojiroTakenashi]

Waaah! ;_;
The latest drivers actually gave me the infamous "50-75% speed increase".
...I'm not sure...I do think there's some kind of tweak I should be able to just plunk in the drivers...after all, it's the textures, and those errors make the windows look funky, but sometimes half of the window will be fine...