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Miscellaneous Forums => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: arew264 on 2010-06-20 17:19:54
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http://backup.ninjaloot.se/share/ff7_opengl-0.7.8b.zip (http://backup.ninjaloot.se/share/ff7_opengl-0.7.8b.zip)
Installation
1. Extract the archive into your ff7 or ff8 folder
FF7:
2a. Run the modified FF7Config, pick custom driver in the list of renderers, you should get confirmation that the driver is working.
3a. Change your settings in ff7_opengl.cfg
FF8:
2b. Make sure EAX is properly installed (run EAXUnified.exe to install it if unsure)
3b. Change your settings in ff8_opengl.cfg
4. Play!
Changelog
- 9999 limit break patch is now incorporated as a config option. Functionality should be mostly the same as the original YAMP patch by dziugo, also the GUI changes necessary are applied by this option.
- MDef patch is also a config option, this one is not based on the YAMP patch but the end result is exactly the same.
- Added support for subtractive (mode 2) and 25% incoming color (mode 3) blending and fixed the field files who were supposed to use them. Mode 3 is noticeable already in the first reactor, those code panels were not supposed to be that bright :) A very noticeable example of subtractive blending is the cat-and-mouse game in the temple of the ancients, where there used to be a mysterious white light in the caves there is now darkness as in the PSX version.
- Popup error/glitch messages could fade away before you had a chance to see them, that is no longer the case.
- Corrected filenames used to load field textures from the modpath.
- Missing external textures can no longer crash the game.
- Every texture is checked against max texture size/NPOT texture support to produce more helpful error messages.
- Added a big warning message for when Windows reverts to using the software OpenGL renderer.
- FF8 will now display a glitch message and a blank screen during moves if you are missing NPOT texture support instead of just making the screen completely white.
- Where possible, removed the gray line that could show up during movies.
- Fixed a problem with modpath not respecting LGP subdirectories.
- Fixed a problem that could crash the game if a file could not be found inside an LGP archive.
- Fixed a problem that would crash the game if a normal file could not be found.
- Fixed the "wind.wav" (and any other .wav file) crash.
- Fixed the wave "music" (usually background noise) that was missing if you were using a music plugin.
- Removed the wine version of the ff7music plugin, it is no longer necessary as of wine version 1.1.35
- Fixed a problem that could crash the game if a missing or broken battle .hrc file was loaded.
- Window title is now "Final Fantasy VII" instead of "DEFAULT" in window mode.
- Movies too big to fit into a texture are now skipped with an error message instead of producing a bunch of OpenGL errors.
- Fixed the new battle interface glitch where battle models could overlap the GUI.
If you find any issues, please post screenshots, relevant information from app.log and if possible, a savegame.
If you get a crash, provide a copy of crash.dmp and app.log (preferably in a zip archive, this will make it 10x smaller)
That's a lot of fixes!
Thanks, Aali, I'll be trying this out shortly.
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Thanks for the new version Aali. These fixes will help alot.
I just tested this and i managed to get through north crater without the game crashing (which i couldn't do with 0.7.7),
And Both the final battle Sephiroth and Odin don't end up infront of the menu which is nice.
And it also doesn't crash at the battle arena for me anymore, This is looking great.
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I can't believe my "DEFAULT" mod has already been obsoleted.
I haven't actually played through the game in a long while, but I remember in the Temple of Ancients there were some problems with the field files being displayed incorrectly in the black materia room. Does anyone know if this has already been fixed?
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Excellent.
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No bugs for me so far. And the gray line in FMVs was indeed fixed :).
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I kept getting people asking me about wind.wav, assuming that my knowledge of FF7Music carries over to all things audio related. This should significantly cut that down. Thanks! :)
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(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4578/ff72010062017564792.th.png) (http://img710.imageshack.us/i/ff72010062017564792.png/)
Screenshot of the new blending. I always thought the white lights weren't a bug, but it did look a bit weird in such a dark place.
Damn sloppy PC port.
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I kept getting people asking me about wind.wav, assuming that my knowledge of FF7Music carries over to all things audio related. This should significantly cut that down. Thanks! :)
As far as i know as long as you had 0.7.7 you would get the wind.wav error even if you use FF7music (well i got the error when i tried using FF7Music and entering the north crater from the highwind on CD3, then again does FF7music cover the .wav files as well ? i thought it only did the midi but i could very well be wrong on this since i don't use FF7music by default)
But anyway it doesn't really matter now since like you say 0.7.8 fixes the problem.
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Holy--- now that's a huge update! And it's working great until now, no crashes or errors! (yeah, had to test it before commenting too)
Can't say that i agree that with the 9999 limit break patch being included since it breaks the game original setup, but people who want to use it would just apply it anyway so it doesn't matter in the end.
Aali, something else might need some "fixing", idk if someone else feels really annoyed about this, but the in-game volume controls are far from perfect (Virtually unusable imo. The ones at the FF7config are also pretty bad too) and if i change the sound of the game using the Windows Volume Mixer it just keep resetting on zoning. Any change of including a master volume control? Just wanted to leave the game at 20% so i could multitask, otherwise its impossible to voice chat in the same computer as we play.
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I tried using it and its working alright!! Nice work man hope it has no bugs this time. :)
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Already found a bug; modpath sometimes looks for files in weird places if direct mode is on. It should work as intended when direct mode is off, however.
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show_fps and show_stats options don't work on ff8.
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show_fps and show_stats options don't work on ff8.
They do here, are you using a french version? Nvidia or non-nvidia?
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I'm using a french nvidia version.
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- 9999 limit break patch is now incorporated as a config option. Functionality should be mostly the same as the original YAMP patch by dziugo, also the GUI changes necessary are applied by this option.
I'm curious, are there any maximum caps on this? dziugo's patch had configurable maximum caps, and defaulted to 30000.
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- 9999 limit break patch is now incorporated as a config option. Functionality should be mostly the same as the original YAMP patch by dziugo, also the GUI changes necessary are applied by this option.
I'm curious, are there any maximum caps on this? dziugo's patch had configurable maximum caps, and defaulted to 30000.
i have tried this, and it appears to be the exact same as dziugo's patch, the cap is 30000 and if you try to go past this using HPplus materia you end up going back to 10HP
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I recive crash.dmp when disc3 path of laguna at lunatic pandora it always crash anybody please help.
my app.log
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF8 1.2 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series 3.2.9704 Compatibility Profile Context
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1366x768, output resolution 1366x768, internal resolution 1920x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Fragment shader(s) linked, vertex shader(s) linked.
WARNING: warning(#276) Symbol 'fb_texture' usage doesn't match between two stages
WARNING: warning(#276) Symbol 'fb_texture' usage doesn't match between two stages
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZING SOUND...
initializing direct sound
EAXDirectSoundCreate
creating primary buffer
initializing audio data
OK
initializing streaming
SOUND INITIALIZED
DIRECT MUSIC - Enumerating Ports...
PORT 0: Microsoft MIDI Mapper [Emulated]
GUID={0x5bc4df2d,0x897c,0x44c3,0x87,0x91,0xda,0x7,0xbc,0xe1,0xa7,0x9a}
PORT 1: Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth [Emulated]
GUID={0x3f1f5114,0xe21e,0x42bd,0x98,0x4a,0xae,0x34,0xa7,0xae,0x20,0xc1}
PORT 2: Microsoft Synthesizer
GUID={0x58c2b4d0,0x46e7,0x11d1,0x89,0xac,0x0,0xa0,0xc9,0x5,0x41,0x29}
Creating Port1...
Microsoft Synthesizer
Port1 supports XG data
Cannot open Movie File: C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\FINAL FANTASY VIII\Publish.pak
SdMusicPlay ()
sd_music_play (number=0, song_id=79, volume=0)
midi_play...
Stopping Performance
Loading DLS...
Playing Segment
midi_play successful
MIDI stop
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: h:\DISK2
SdMusicPlay ()
sd_music_play (number=0, song_id=55, volume=0)
midi_play...
Stopping Performance
Playing Segment
midi_play successful
SdMusicPlay ()
sd_music_play (number=0, song_id=55, volume=127)
ERROR: unhandled exception
Thank you for help
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Yes, the default limit is 30000. You can change this with the settings new_hp_limit/new_mp_limit but you're on your own if you make it more than 30000, it's not going to work too well.
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hey aali is it possible you can add an option for sense materia to sense high HP bosses? or is there a limit to it :(?
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What do you mean? Doesn't sense work with high HP bosses?
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No, the game has always been made to say "Could not sense" when HP of an enemy (any enemy) goes over around 40000. Try it with Master Tonberry (44444) or Sephiroth or Emerald Weapon.
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Exactly 40000? Can you sense an enemy with 39999 HP? It would make a lot more sense if the limit was at or under 2^15
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IIRC, it was impossible to sense enemies with more than 30 000 HP, so it might have been an issue of not being able to sense more than 32767. However, my memory might be deceiving me here...
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I also thought about that, but I can't remember if I was able to sense that red dragon that drops the carob nut. That has 33333. So yeah it is possibly 32767. That would make sense.....[pun not intended]
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Another modpath bug; the file extension is always stripped from filenames before loading anything from the modpath. In battle.lgp textures have names like cloud.t01, cloud.t02 etc which means they all end up loading the same texture from the modpath. I guess noone is using it for battle textures yet, but just in case you were planning on doing it, it probably wont work right.
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Another modpath bug; the file extension is always stripped from filenames before loading anything from the modpath. In battle.lgp textures have names like cloud.t01, cloud.t02 etc which means they all end up loading the same texture from the modpath. I guess noone is using it for battle textures yet, but just in case you were planning on doing it, it probably wont work right.
just a question about the modpath, can you nest directories and it will still find files? For example:
worldmap texture is "grass01"
i place the grass01.PNG in "ff7/modpath/WMRP/grass"
would that work? sorry i don't have anything to test it on right now otherwise i simply would.
lee
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Not at the moment, no, whichever filename it prints with show_missing_textures is the one and only filename it will try. And although I wish it was somewhat better organized, I do not plan on going in that direction. (No, I don't have a better idea yet :P)
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Hi Aali,
Is there a way to load several .dll's using load_library?
I can only seem to load one at a time.
Thanks.
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Yay, no more annoying crashes related to wind.wav (direct mode)!!!
Thank you.
Also, what do you think about this feature (http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9868.msg142137#msg142137), Aali?
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And again, I've got the same crash I've already described here (http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9868.msg142373#msg142373):
<APP log (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/2/app.log)>
<FF7music log (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/2/ff7music.log)>
<dump (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/2/crash.7z)>
In this time it happens ALWAYS on the same place, right when I start the fight with Giant Icicle in "Gaea's Cliff inside" or after few battles in that area. Any idea how can eliminate this bug? ;< I've already tried to change some GPU setting for ff7.exe, like, vsync, triple buffering, multithread mode, etc - nothing helps ;< And I can't update my drivers too (there is a reason., too much to explain).
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Timber: Since there is to my knowledge only one mod floating around using this feature i can only assume you made the other .dll yourself. In this case, it should be a simple matter for you to add code loading the second dll from your own.
Kein: Doesn't really fit the scope of this driver, perhaps you should get a better window manager?
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Ok, but whats' about that crash? I barely doubt it is nvidia's ogl drivers fault, since it is a first crash for me of some game/application based on OpenGL API. Old good 182.50 proved himself as a stable ones for a long period of time.
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This is a great new version. Just a suggestion for the next one, though : is it possible to add an option, in ff7_opengl.cfg, to remove the yellow and red notifications, at the bottom of the screen ? Like the "ERROR : could not open file AAAF2.RSD" and stuff ?
Otherwise, I noticed that you improved the GUI's transparency :) Even the submenus are transparent now. Very cool.
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No I did not "improve the GUIs transparency", most likely you just didn't update the vertex shader.
Those messages are there for a reason, you will not see any of them with original data or wellbehaving mods. (Unless something really goes wrong)
There is a way to turn them off since 0.7.8b because after all it was not in the original game and so should be optional. The option is called disable_popup, turn it on and you will never see them again. I beg all of you modders out there to leave it off however so these issues will not continue to go unnoticed and end up in even more released mods.
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to my knowledge only one mod floating around using this feature
Actually there are 5 in this thread that can be used with it: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8761
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No I did not "improve the GUIs transparency", most likely you just didn't update the vertex shader.
Those messages are there for a reason, you will not see any of them with original data or wellbehaving mods. (Unless something really goes wrong)
There is a way to turn them off since 0.7.8b because after all it was not in the original game and so should be optional. The option is called disable_popup, turn it on and you will never see them again. I beg all of you modders out there to leave it off however so these issues will not continue to go unnoticed and end up in even more released mods.
Thank you very much for the info, it's great to be able to disable those messages. I'm no model-creator, and it got tiring to see those messages appear when battles / field files were loaded.
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Actually there are 5 in this thread that can be used with it: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8761
Oh thats clever, didn't think about FF8. That launcher still works though, doesn't it? This isn't really how I intended that option to be used so I dunno if I want to expand on it.
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No I did not "improve the GUIs transparency", most likely you just didn't update the vertex shader.
Those messages are there for a reason, you will not see any of them with original data or wellbehaving mods. (Unless something really goes wrong)
There is a way to turn them off since 0.7.8b because after all it was not in the original game and so should be optional. The option is called disable_popup, turn it on and you will never see them again. I beg all of you modders out there to leave it off however so these issues will not continue to go unnoticed and end up in even more released mods.
Thank you very much for the info, it's great to be able to disable those messages. I'm no model-creator, and it got tiring to see those messages appear when battles / field files were loaded.
Before you disable them, have you bothered the creators of any models you use about them? Those errors aren't there just to irritate you, they're there to make the mod-makers not publish incomplete or broken mods. I personally think that we'd all be happier in the long run if you couldn't turn them off.
Kill the messages if you must, but bother the mod-makers of any mods you have installed about the errors first.
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Not sure if it's a but, but now, attack lines of FortCondor's units are non-transparent anymore: click (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/078_non_transparent.png)
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Not sure if it's a but, but now, attack lines of FortCondor's units are non-transparent anymore: click (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/078_non_transparent.png)
I can't even begin to imagine why that happened but I will look into it.
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Aali
Also, as I said, those crashes is not a driver's fault. Just for such sake I've installed bloated 257.xx and here it is:
<APP.log (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/3/app.log)>
<FF7music.log (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/3/ff7music.log)>
<dump (http://shinra.ru/kein/ff7/3/crash.7z)>
Something in your driver incorrectly uses some OGL API instructions. I wonder if we can debug it somehow...
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Well, the crash is happening from a very standard draw call that hasn't changed at all the last 10 or so versions. So, either you have a broken model somewhere (can you reproduce with original data?) or there's something really weird going on.
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Actually there are 5 in this thread that can be used with it: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8761
Oh thats clever, didn't think about FF8. That launcher still works though, doesn't it? This isn't really how I intended that option to be used so I dunno if I want to expand on it.
Yeah the launcher still work, it's just convenient being able to bypass it :)
Don't worry about expanding it if it's too much effort, just wanted to know if there was a way to do it currently.
Also, the FPS overlay doesn't seem to work on FF8.
EDIT: Also in FF8 the battle transitions are just thin black lines, and Squall doesn't have a shadow on the world map.
I tested without the driver, and the battle transitions worked well, and Squall has a shadow (although the shadow looked messed up since without the driver the transparency doesnt seem to work)
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Is it supposed to look like Software Renderer and drastically reduce my FPS? Compare Software (http://i50.tinypic.com/2ppbmux.jpg) to Direct3D (http://i47.tinypic.com/dfu3v7.jpg) to OpenGL (http://i50.tinypic.com/imuixs.jpg).
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Hey Aali, just thought of putting this also here since the bug I got is regarding Your newest release
Is TA's mod compatible with Aali's newest (0.7.8b) driver ? i'm asking cause I tried it today and dunno what goes wrong but can't install T.A.G.O. When installer is run I get this:
Aali's custom driver is not installed, or not installed correctly. please reinstall...
The game runs fine with Aali's driver, got no graphical problems just this :
ERROR: could not read from file c:\users\mefi\games\Final Fantasy 7\ff7input.cfg (0)
but i already created ff7input file.
Can this cause problem with compatibility to TAGO?
And how can I solve the ff7input prob, already tried deleting, and creating a new one.
This is because aali's newer drivers do not modify the registry the same way. the easiest fix is to download one of the older versions and run the ff7opengl.reg.
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Hey Aali, just thought of putting this also here since the bug I got is regarding Your newest release
Is TA's mod compatible with Aali's newest (0.7.8b) driver ? i'm asking cause I tried it today and dunno what goes wrong but can't install T.A.G.O. When installer is run I get this:
Aali's custom driver is not installed, or not installed correctly. please reinstall...
The game runs fine with Aali's driver, got no graphical problems just this :
ERROR: could not read from file c:\users\mefi\games\Final Fantasy 7\ff7input.cfg (0)
but i already created ff7input file.
Can this cause problem with compatibility to TAGO?
And how can I solve the ff7input prob, already tried deleting, and creating a new one.
This is because aali's newer drivers do not modify the registry the same way. the easiest fix is to download one of the older versions and run the ff7opengl.reg.
This is not a problem with aali's driver. it is a problem with the avalanche installer. The next avalanche release will not have this problem.
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oh, ok.
BTW can U tell me what program did You use to remodel menus in FF7 ? Id like to try it myself, and maybe if i'll come up with something nice i post it here for TA's use :)
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Photoshop.
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Well, the crash is happening from a very standard draw call that hasn't changed at all the last 10 or so versions. So, either you have a broken model somewhere (can you reproduce with original data?) or there's something really weird going on.
Any idea how I can find this broken model (if it's a cause)?
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Photoshop.
simple as that :) how about if I would like to change the positioning of the stats, boxes etc? (making side bar wider or location window more narrow, and reposition level or limit gauges)
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No idea, look in the menu reconstruction thread. Anyways this isnt relevant to the topic at all.
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I found a display problem with ff8:
(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1426/glassf.png)
The glass is transparent. I looked in ff8 data, so this glass is drawed with blendType = 2, and BGSHADE opcode was called.
Oh, and is there a hope that the next version correctly displays battle transitions?
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It seems like this hurts FF8 more than it helps.
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It seems like this hurts FF8 more than it helps.
Not true. There's a few missing graphics, but this is the most compatible option.
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It seems like this hurts FF8 more than it helps.
Nobody is forcing you to use the driver. If you have better luck with the original driver use that.
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It seems like this hurts FF8 more than it helps.
Not true. There's a few missing graphics, but this is the most compatible option.
Which ones? It just seems like until we can apply high resolution textures there is really no point in using this with FF8.
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It seems like this hurts FF8 more than it helps.
Not true. There's a few missing graphics, but this is the most compatible option.
Which ones? It just seems like until we can apply high resolution textures there is really no point in using this with FF8.
The ones that come with the game... When you install it? :P.
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Which ones, specifically?
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Direct X i think. XD. Umm 7? I haven't actually looked. Sorry.
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I don't understand what you mean. I thought you meant there are broken textures this fixes.
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He meant you can always just use the base game. Like the drivers that get installed when you install the game. That driver is called Direct X. :P. Aali's drivers are made to stabilize some of the issues that the Direct X drivers caused. Aali's drivers are far from complete, but they are definitely an improvement. In my opinion.
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Is it supposed to look like Software Renderer and drastically reduce my FPS? Compare Software (http://i50.tinypic.com/2ppbmux.jpg) to Direct3D (http://i47.tinypic.com/dfu3v7.jpg) to OpenGL (http://i50.tinypic.com/imuixs.jpg).
I found a display problem with ff8:
(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1426/glassf.png)
The glass is transparent. I looked in ff8 data, so this glass is drawed with blendType = 2, and BGSHADE opcode was called.
Oh, and is there a hope that the next version correctly displays battle transitions?
After seeing things like this, I would have to disagree. Can anyone be more specific on the issues caused by Software Rendering or Direct3D Hardware Acceleration? The only notable bugs seem to have been introduced through the OpenGL driver.
It seems like this hurts FF8 more than it helps.
Not true. There's a few missing graphics, but this is the most compatible option.
I misread. He meant by using the driver some graphical bugs are introduced, but it's the most compatible option. But what is it the most compatible option opposed to?
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I can't speak for FF8, but in FF7, the default driver didn't allow the resolution to be raised beyond 640x480. TheSaint made a patch that gave you two more resolution options, but it was fairly glitchy (on my machine, random objects would randomly be turned yellow until the entire screen was yellow). It was also fairly slow (although that was just because of FF7's outdated rendering methods, not the patch).
The OpenGL driver makes the lives of modders easier, allows for simpler content replacement, and adds a whole host of configuration options and expandability that were never present in any way in the original driver.
As I said, this is in FF7.
The short answer is that this is a one man volunteer project on games that are more than 10 years old. There will be glitches, and while the goal is to improve the experience, if you don't think it will help, just don't use it. The fact that Aali has managed to replace the entire rendering system is an achievement in itself, and the driver has been improving for quite some time now.
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You said it yourself. You can't speak for FF8. It might help tremendously in FF7, but it seems to break things, more or less, in FF8. Also, you are sorely mistaken about replacing the API, it is already present.
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You said it yourself. You can't speak for FF8.
And you misinterpreted it. I don't own FF8. I should have made that clear.
It might help tremendously in FF7, but it seems to break things, more or less, in FF8. Also, you are sorely mistaken about replacing the API, it is already present.
Yes, Square wrote in an API, but Aali discovered that API and wrote a driver that fills it completely, and he's added features that aren't really based on that API as well. I don't think you really understand what the term API means here. All it means is that Square set up a way for the game to communicate with a graphics driver. That communications method was undocumented and only used by the built-in default renderer, so I consider finding it and writing a driver that uses it successfully to be an achievement. Do you see any other replacement drivers around? Aali has put a lot of work into writing something that has pretty much revived FF7. As I said before, I don't own FF8.
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http://pastebin.com/ZNtacRy7
It wasn't that hard to find. Look, I'm not trying to say his driver is completely worthless, I am asking what purpose it serves for Final Fantasy VIII.
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That's easy to answer. It allows FF8 to be played easily and although it isn't perfect it will be added to in time. Would you prefer no driver?
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Played easily? Please elaborate.
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It doesnt crash nearly as often as the original did.
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Nor does it require messing about with graphical fixes or tweaks. It is all done for you.
You seem to be assuming that this is the finished product. If you don't like it, don't use it.
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I'd like to join the discussion as well. Thought all of this doesn't exactly deal with 'help/bugs/suggestions' (in that case this could be moved to another topic afterwards), it is something that has been bugging me for a while : Aali's driver vs. ff8 launcher. I think that's what smf052910 and many are asking as well. Hopefully your answers will make it less confusing...
It doesnt crash nearly as often as the original did.
Nor does it require messing about with graphical fixes or tweaks. It is all done for you
I've been playing at FFVIII PC for several years on different computers and system. Never noticed a single crash, or any graphical issue. I have the feeling that most of the people that come to this forum are either looking for enhanced graphics, either having an issue due to a corrupted CD.
When you try the ff8 Launcher, you immediately see the difference with stock game. There are only very few issues : end of videos, Diablo summon, Edea magic for passing through the walls, vibrate effect (Gilgamesh, Griever preparing his most powerful attack, appearance of Ultimecia last form in a burst of magic & black feathers), menu textures....
Here is what I haven't managed to figured out despite reading a lot of the topics here on the subject, does Aali's driver allow the same enhanced 3D that the launcher, or does it just recreate more or less the original game?
For what I've understood, Aali's driver will allow the use of higher quality materials in future modding, but what of the time being?
What about a newbie that have original game already working, and come seeking how to run ff8 'better than ever', shouldn't he download the Launcher, unless he wants to contribute to Aali WIP project by reporting bugs and glitches? Or if Aali's driver is indeed able to do as good as the launcher, how do you configure the required file?
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Crash when I closed the game, in the D-District prison.
ff8 crash.dmp (http://wikisquare.com/public/ff8crash_myst6re.zip)
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Post a copy of your APP.log after the crash too. Makes it easier for Aali to identify the cause, I believe.
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Here is what I haven't managed to figured out despite reading a lot of the topics here on the subject, does Aali's driver allow the same enhanced 3D that the launcher, or does it just recreate more or less the original game?
Enhanced 3D of FF8 Launcher? If you are talking about higher resolutions, then yes of course, Aali's driver supports it. Just edit the ff8_opengl.cfg file in Notepad or similar.
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I think he meant Hardware Acceleration. Personally, I don't feel like much can be done for FF8 until we can apply high resolution textures.
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Thanks for answering my question Timber, it decided me to try again, and this time I found the trick... Always try yourself before asking - should I've remember this golden rule.
Linear_filter = on
Indeed, with this Magixt launcher is not needed anymore, althought with Aali's it does look more blurry.
There is just one minor thing... Well, those 5 new folders and 3 new files crownding my already-over populated ff8 directory... it would be a little less messy if all of them could be put in one single folder. Just a detail of course... :evil:
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i just got FF7 running on this acer laptop, and the driver functions okay. Problem is, i cannot specify any resolution other than 640x480. I can run windowed and fullscreen at 640x480, but even if i go up to 800x600 i do not get any video. I can still hear the sounds playing, and i can move the selector hand up and down. As soon as i drop back to 640x480, i get video again.
Please help!
Lee
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I wonder what is happening, are you sure you installed the video cards drivers correctly?(Has no idea whats in there) It seems like a driver issue to me, not so much an issue with aali's.
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pyrozen: Anything useful in app.log when you set some other resolution? Does turning off prevent_rounding_errors let you play in other resolutions? (not a nice permanent solution since you'll have glitches)
smf052910: If you don't like it, don't use it. FF8 support is not perfect, I'm fully aware of this. It's a bit slower than it has to be, it's missing stuff and some things just don't look right. If god has mercy on our souls this will all be fixed in due time, but for now it is what it is, take it or leave it. If you have any constructive criticism I'm all ears.
myst6re: Thank you for the bug report and the crash dump, I haven't done a lot of play testing with FF8 lately so there may well be more of them.
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app.log was clear, but i got the problem cleared up. I used some different drivers and things seem to be working perfectly.
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pyrozen: Anything useful in app.log when you set some other resolution? Does turning off prevent_rounding_errors let you play in other resolutions? (not a nice permanent solution since you'll have glitches)
smf052910: If you don't like it, don't use it. FF8 support is not perfect, I'm fully aware of this. It's a bit slower than it has to be, it's missing stuff and some things just don't look right. If god has mercy on our souls this will all be fixed in due time, but for now it is what it is, take it or leave it. If you have any constructive criticism I'm all ears.
myst6re: Thank you for the bug report and the crash dump, I haven't done a lot of play testing with FF8 lately so there may well be more of them.
I don't understand why you are using OpenGL when the client supports DirectX by default. I am working on something similar to your driver, using DirectX, and the only task I'm facing is centering the image.
(http://i48.tinypic.com/29vku35.jpg)
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Because opengl is documented much better and is better across platforms like linux I am guessing. It doesn't always have to be the case that just because dx exists it has to be used. There are reasons.
Plus Opengl is fine. I think it all looks good and I don't need DX.
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One main point Aali made a reference to was that Open GL doesn't have "poor backwards compatibility" (or something like that). FF7 and 8 were made with like... DX 5 or 6? And now it doesn't even run on DX9 without loads of tricks, hacks and fixes.
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One idea.
It will be surely be impossible to change ingame FPS (not double speed: smoother animations)
What about an interpolation filter? Could it be possible? Is it hard?
Thanks :)
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It is something that is being discussed as to the feasibility of it right now.
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Well, I have this on my game, but I don't know how to change the resolution at all. When I bring up the config, it only gives me 640x480 Quarterscreen or Fullscreen. How do I get the other resolutions? I'm still new to all this, so I could use a bit of help. Thankyee.
Edit: I figured out how to open it, I just don't know what to do when it's open. I just got out of high school and have no idea how to do much with computer programs and such.
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don't use FF7 install's provided config file(well do, but set it to custom driver and leave it alone)
Make sure you have aali's and have put it in your game folder, then find ff7_opengl.cfg or ff8_opengl.cfg (both in your game folder, choose the cfg for the game your playing)
Inside of the cfg file will be options you will have to manually edit, but it is not hard in the least.
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Edit: Ahh, I found out how to do it, but now I need to know what sizes I can work with. I have 800x600, but are there others i can do?
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any factor of the original size will work fine, if not the drivers gonna scale it down. I use 1920x1440 myself.
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Hi, I recently installed applied this patch since FF7 no longer seems to work correctly (It worked fine several months ago). Upon starting the game, the screen simply remains black as the Eidos theme plays. Subsequent to that, there is no way of starting or exiting the game thus forcing a system restart.
In any case, with the new patch, the problem is that although it is now possible to actually view the movies, the audio of the clip stops playing after 1-2 seconds within starting. Case in point: Eidos logo animation at the beginning sounds for a second or so before all audio is cut off. The beginning animation also suffers from the same problem so it can be speculated that all movies will play erroneously.
I installed XviD and uninstalled it as it did not seem to fix any of the problems. I currently have the latest CCCP beta and Real Alternative installed.
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Aali
I've got a suggestion/want to ask you something
have you thought about/planing to make your own config exe or edit the ff7config exe. So people don't have to open the cfg file and edit it on notepad?
It would cut down on people that edit it wrongly and make it easier to set up
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Aali
I've got a suggestion/want to ask you something
have you thought about/planing to make your own config exe or edit the ff7config exe. So people don't have to open the cfg file and edit it on notepad?
It would cut down on people that edit it wrongly and make it easier to set up
I second this. Maybe like the new custom ff8configurator style so new people will not keep on asking and posting what's wrong with their cfg files.
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Its on my todo list but its far far far far far down and it will probably not happen. Feel free to write one though, I use libconfuse to read the config files and its capable of writing them too so you don't have to worry about that.
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Thanks for the speedy reply Aali
I can wait, i was only really asking if you planed to at some point.
I did have a feeling if you was going to do one, it would be far off as their more important things to be doing with your drivers right now
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Hi everyone
This version is the first in this series I've tried and I'm certainly new to the modding community, so there's every chance I'm simply overlooking something really basic here, but I can't get this to work.
I've installed FF7 and installed the driver; upon running, the game displays both the Squaresoft intro screen and the opening credits scene (the latter without sound) then displays the menu, also without sound. When I select New Game the game crashes and no app.log or crash.dmp file is created.
Any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong? Obviously if there's any information you think I'm failing to provide, please let me know.
Thanks!
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Have you read this (http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9590.0) guide?
You also need to install the 1.02 patch to get the game working and have a ff7input.cfg file and save files (the saves can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of the OP of the thread I lined to. If you download the saves, load one without using the driver and then make a new save, the ff7input.cfg file will be created.
If you have set everything up properly, it might be wise to simply reinstall (making sure you delete all the game's files when you uninstall it).
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Thanks for the quick reply!
Hmm...I've done everything you said (I'd missed out the step with the saved games before), tried reinstalling, and the problem is the same, with the exceptions that 1) the error message 'couldn't open movie file' appears in the bottom-right (that is, one of the in-built error messages in red type), and 2) upon trying to start/load a game I get the inbuilt error message instead of the windows one, but again the crash dump and APP files which the message says it has created do not appear.
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This thread is about 0.7.8b, your symptoms suggest that you are running 0.7.7b.
Also, app.log should always be created, even if it doesn't crash, be sure to double and triple check the working directory of ff7.exe.
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Hi Aali, thanks for your help.
I've had a good check, and it's definitely 0.7.8b, and there's definitely no app.log file.
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Has anyone else got a problem with CG cut scenes in FF8? I cant get to the fight with Adel because the movie wont load :/
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just started a new game and it occured to me that the movie is ridiculously long. Any way/chance of adding the ability to skip movies through the driver? I know there is another mod that allows you to do this, but i noticed you have implemented a few other mods into yours, and this might be a good addition. Keep it up!
lee
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If you have the movies on your harddrive you can just rename the file and it will be skipped as the game can't find it. For the intro screen this leaves a black layer over the field background but you can get rid of it by opening the menu and closing it again.
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You can also use dziugo's patches that skips the fmv's but Aali's way of doing it is much better if you really intend to skip it.
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I have a feature request: Option to turn off the battle shadows (the big ugly circles).
Of course, if you can do anything to make them look better, that would be very welcome too, but I figure that an option to turn them off would be easier to implement.
Also I saw this requested before, but I'm not sure if it was answered: Is it possible to have APNG support in FF7?
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We need APNG support so we can make animated battle-scenes. If people will start asking for APNGS more, maybe we will get them.
Current Applications I can use APNGs for(Off the top of my head)
Animate the sign OPAD so that it does the same as the field sign and goes from Japanese, To WARNING, to INTRUDER.
Animate clouds to appear like there is wind
Animate oceans to appear as if there are waves.
Possibly be able to make it look like windy in some scenes
Animated Materia
Being able to make The materia and Treasure boxes flash like in the PSX version.
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I asked Aali about this in the IRC and he said it may be a possiblity in the future so long as it's not a huge ordeal to implement it. I agree it would be a cool addition though.
lee
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I asked Aali about this in the IRC and he said it may be a possiblity in the future so long as it's not a huge ordeal to implement it. I agree it would be a cool addition though.
lee
Thats nice to hear, hopefully he will be able to implement it, since Aali uses LibPNG (i think) there are patches to add support for APNG to LibPNG at http://littlesvr.ca/apng/
but i have no idea if these are compataible with Aali's driver (and even if it is i bet it isnt as simple as just patching his LibPNG version)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/pyrozen/Untitled-1-4.jpg)
I took all of the WMRP PNGs and stuck them into the mods directory, but some are showing up all black. I'm not seeing any errors in the app.log other than some convert to 32-bit. Any thoughts as to what's going on?
Also, the mods directory only loads images that are inside of a folder named "yes". For example, the world textures come from /mods/yes/world. Just seemed kind of odd that "yes" is one of the directories.
lee
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Maybe next time don't set your modpath to "yes" :P Those black spots are quite interesting though, dunno why that happened. Are your .tex files still modified or did you revert to original data? It shouldn't make a difference though, modpath takes preference.
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lol, i didn't realize the mod_path option let you actually set the mod_path. I thought it was a yes/no option like the others.
Not sure what the black boxes were about. I closed the game down and recopied everything and it seems to be working now. All my LGPs are totally stock, and i plan on keeping them that way for the time being.
lee
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This thread is about 0.7.8b, your symptoms suggest that you are running 0.7.7b.
Also, app.log should always be created, even if it doesn't crash, be sure to double and triple check the working directory of ff7.exe.
Sorry for being an ignoramus, there is of course an app.log file, but I'm definitely running 0.7.8b and still experiencing the same problem.
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
ERROR: failed to set fullscreen mode
INFO: Intel Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator 1.5.0 - Build 7.14.10.1409
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 320x240, window size 320x240, output resolution 320x240, internal resolution 320x240
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: YAMAHA XG MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\xg.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 0
MIDI set volume: 127
0% of 127 = 0
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
ERROR: couldn't open movie file
INFO: E:\ff7\movies\sqlogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x224, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 14.533333, frames: 218
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
0% of 127 = 0
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
WM_CLOSE
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Field Quit
MIDI stop - OK
resetting MIDI driver volume - OK
UNINITIALIZE DD
Any ideas?
Thanks
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How did you manage to do that? Somehow you've got FF7 running in low res mode; 320x240. This should not be possible unless you modified the registry manually. The driver was just not meant to work in this mode so thats the first thing you need to fix, rerun FF7Config and it should fix itself.
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Hmmm...again no luck, but clearly the problem's not with your driver, so I'll stop cluttering the place up. Thanks for your help all the same.
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Nono, there seems to be a problem with the bundled FF7Config so this is certainly where this discussion belongs. What happens if you choose the D3D driver, up the resolution to 640x480, quit FF7Config, start it again and select the custom driver?
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Ok, well here's the APP after doing what you said:
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
ERROR: failed to set fullscreen mode
INFO: Intel Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator 1.5.0 - Build 7.14.10.1409
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: YAMAHA XG MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\xg.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 0
MIDI set volume: 127
0% of 127 = 0
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
ERROR: couldn't open movie file
INFO: E:\ff7\movies\sqlogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x224, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 14.533333, frames: 218
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
0% of 127 = 0
MIDI play: 95
reading midi file: PRE.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
0% of 127 = 0
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
ERROR: unhandled exception
Everything in-game is exactly the same; crash takes place after starting a new game and the 'couldn't open movie file' error still appears.
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Seems like you're missing some data. Try reinstalling and make sure to choose full install.
That did fix the low-res issue though.
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Yep, running just fine now, cheers!
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whats the story with mod_path and battle fields? With show_missing_textures on, all it reports is a generic battle png, like STAGE02_00.PNG. I know which textures to replace, but putting them into the mods/TA/battle doesn't let them load, and i have to place them into the LGP manually. Will this be fixed at some point? The world map textures load just fine when placed into the mods directory.
lee
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It does not work at this point. It will load the same texture for every model. Aali already has it fixed and it should be in the next release.
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It does not work at this point. It will load the same texture for every model. Aali already has it fixed and it should be in the next release.
sounds good! Its easy enough to work around at this point, im just exicited at the prospect of using mods that dont require modification of the original LGPs. This should squash nearly all of the installation related issues that people have.
im off to party, happy 4th of july!
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It sounds wierd ,but I tried the impossible:
Running in NT 4 with aalis driver on my old K6-2 notebook equipped with a ATI Rage LT pro AGP
a lot of upgrades and a DX5.0 beta kit.
in 3d part it runs but on field backgounds upper layers are drawn incorrect.
Also speed is an issue especially in videos,because my cpu has no L2 cache and floating point is much slower than a PII.
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is it me, or is it not possible to load custom png's for the field backgrounds?
INFO: tried to load d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/flevel/d:/games/square/final fantasy vii/Data/field/hand_1_00.png, failed
INFO: tried to load d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/flevel/_00.png, failed
further on in the log...
INFO: tried to load d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/field/md1stin/md1stin_00_00.png, failed
I've tried it in the 0.7.7b, it does load the png's however....
Field Start
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/field/md1stin/md1stin_0_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3678/ingametest01.png)
not quite as it should.
any suggestions?
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is it me, or is it not possible to load custom png's for the field backgrounds?
INFO: tried to load d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/flevel/d:/games/square/final fantasy vii/Data/field/hand_1_00.png, failed
INFO: tried to load d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/flevel/_00.png, failed
further on in the log...
INFO: tried to load d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/field/md1stin/md1stin_00_00.png, failed
I've tried it in the 0.7.7b, it does load the png's however....
Field Start
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (d:\games\square\final fantasy vii\/mods/SpooX/field/md1stin/md1stin_0_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
not quite as it should.
any suggestions?
The reason its not loading in 0.7.8 is mostly likely because its looking for a different filename (0.7.8 is looking for md1stin_00_00.png but the file is named md1stin_0_00.png in your mod folder).
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thanx,
it loads the files now, however it is scrambled the same way.... :-(
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To get it to work properly put the field file that it generates into the flevel.lgp and delete your cache. The modpath does not work properly at the moment. Also make sure you are using palmer 0.4b
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Hello,
i am a german Final Fantasy Player. Your awesome work give me a new experience for FF7 !
Later i want to play FF8 and install it for later using. I set up the Config file like the FF7 one and hit the FF8 exe.
Ok... xD My First fault was, that i have install the English patch...
On the second try your driver tells me that i have an unsupported Language^^
Jeah! "Wer lesen kann ist klar im Vorteil!"
My Question is: Is it possible to add support for the german Version?
Regards,
ryg
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hello every1, thanks for this driver and all the work on ff7 mods and stuff. ;)
so i installed this latest version of the driver but i cant seem to make bloom2.post work i can run smartbloom but when i change the settings i get this error on the app log
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r19334, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. RADEON X800 Series 2.1.8544 Release
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x720, output resolution 1280x720, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Fragment shader(s) linked, vertex shader(s) linked.
-INFO: Fragment shader(s) failed to link, no vertex shader(s) defined.
-Fragment Shader not supported by HW
-ERROR: init_postprocessing failed, postprocessing will be disabled
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Sint. SW de tabla de ondas GS, mid=1, pid=102,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Archivos de programa\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 0
MIDI set volume: 127
0% of 127 = 0
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Archivos de programa\Final Fantasy VII\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
WM_CLOSE
END OF CREDITS!!!
Field Quit
MIDI stop - OK
resetting MIDI driver volume - OK
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD
so do you have any ideas on what might be the problem i really want to try bloom2 out and i think my card should handle it or is not?
here is the ff7_opengl.cfg options :
# ff7_opengl-0.7.8b config file
# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
# does not affect the old external textures feature, those should still go in textures/
mod_path = none
# use shaders, if available and supported
# turn shaders off to use the OpenGL 1.1 backend
use_shaders = yes
# plugins
# a movie plugin is required, the music plugin is optional, but required to make FF7Music work
movie_plugin = plugins/ffmpeg_movies.fgp
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
# vertex and fragment shaders
vert_source = shaders/main.vert
frag_source = shaders/main.frag
# YUV fast path shader
yuv_source = shaders/yuv.frag
# post-processing shader, used to apply fullscreen effects
post_source = shaders/bloom2.post
enable_postprocessing = yes
# display frames per second counter in upper right corner
show_fps = no
# display some real-time debug information
show_stats = no
# set the window size (and fullscreen resolution) of FF7
# 0 means use original resolution (whatever ff7.exe provides)
# preserve_aspect adds black borders as needed to preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio
window_size_x = 1280
window_size_y = 720
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = yes
# prevent glitches due to rounding errors by rendering in the nearest (larger, if supported)
# multiple of the original resolution and up/down-scaling
prevent_rounding_errors = yes
# check your driver settings if this option doesn't seem to work
enable_vsync = yes
# limit snowboard, coaster and highway minigames to refresh rate / 2, i.e. 30fps for a 60hz display mode
# vsync must be enabled and working for this to have any effect
minigame_framelimiter = on
# same thing, but for the battle swirl
battleswirl_framelimiter = off
# replace FF7's default framelimiter timer source
use_new_timer = yes
# use a more stable (but less accurate) timer to control FF7's framelimiter
# this option has no effect unless the use_new_timer option is on
use_stable_timer = no
# allow FF7 to use linear filtering for its textures
# some things look slightly better with this option on, but alot of textures just lose their detail
linear_filter = off
# make all dialog boxes transparent, same effect as the transparent dialog boxes YAMP patch
transparent_dialogs = on
# allow max hp/mp to go over 9999, same effect as the YAMP patch by dziugo
break_9999limit = yes
# include armor in magic defense calculation
mdef_fix = yes
# expand battle viewport to cover entire screen and make the battle menu transparent
new_battle_interface = on
# enable alpha blending for textures without an existing blending effect
fancy_transparency = on
# store external textures in a compressed cache for increased performance
# compression is not lossless, some artifacts may appear when this option is in use
# texture cache does NOT update automatically if the source image changes, however, deleting anything from the cache
# will cause that file to be recreated from the source
compress_textures = yes
# read files directly instead of using LGP archives
# for example; if FF7 is looking for aaab.rsd in char.lgp, this option will make it open direct/char/aaab.rsd first,
# if this file doesn't exist it will look for the original in the LGP archive
# this option should be used for testing only, performance will take a hit
direct_mode = off
# show every failed attempt at loading a .png texture
# this option is for modders only, it's useful to find out which texture to replace and which palettes it needs
show_missing_textures = no
well thanks again and let me know what do you think could be.
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ATI x800 doesn't have a 3.0 shader in it. Can that be a problem?
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ATI x800 doesn't have a 3.0 shader in it. Can that be a problem?
hi yeah i tought of that too, but im not sure what kind of requirements does the driver need. i have although played newer games that incorpore bloom in there options and they have worked mmm
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Basically, I've gone to this page:
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8306.msg142017
I have downloaded "ff7_opengl-0.7.8b.zip" (The last post on page 2)
This is the first time I have ever downloaded Aali's Custom Drivers by the way. So I opened the RAR file, and extracted everything in the file to "C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII".
I ran the modified FF7Config, chose Custom Driver and I got a message saying that it was working.
The next step says that I have to "Change your settings in ff7_opengl.cfg", I have no idea what this means so I left it. I ran the game and nothing had changed. I heard that this driver was supposed to run the game in a much higher resolution, upon opening the game, and printscreening it, the resolution was the same. I then tried to test the ff7_opengl.cfg by choosing on for things like "make all dialog boxes transparent", I then tested and nothing had changed once again.
I'm not sure what I'm doing, or what setting I'm supposed to change. Help would be very appreciated.
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Nothing will really change if you did not touch the .cfg file. You'll just have to change it from yes/no or on/off. Example:
compress_texture=yes
You should be careful and leave no spaces and just encode no.
compress_texture=no
As for the resolution here's an example
window_size_x = 1360
window_size_y = 768
preserve_aspect = yes
fullscreen = yes
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Just tried all of those, and nothing is changing :'(
By the way:
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Rating: 1.0 Windoes Experience Index: Unrated
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 : 2.00GHz 2.00 Ghz
Memory (RAM): 2.00
System type: 32-bit Operating System
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Okay! I fixed it! I didn't realise I had to replace the ff7.exe with the 1.02 patch! I installed it and it worked.
Okay I think the maximum resolution I can have is 1280 x 800 so I chose that and I got this:
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2678/1280x800z.png)
Which is much nicer :D
Now is that the highest resolution I can get with my settings? Is there any way to make it fit anymore?
Also, what would you recommend I change in the opengl?
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I think you are thinking too much Direct X style 8-)
The shader 3.0 you mentioned is DirectX 9.0c shader.
The shader used here is OpenGL 2.0 shader so your card and driver
need to support openGL 2.0.
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Greetings.
Im looking for how to load custom textures using ff7_opengl with /modpath, but i cannot find an example, nor exactly how the syntaxis is. Anyone could help me please?
Edit: To fix the problem with spanish FFVII when using new textures, is prior to avalanche mod, rename spanish files like menu_sp.lgp to english one, after that, rename again into spanish. It works. So not ff7_opengl issue, so please mods, move to proper location, might help someone else.
But the question is still there, how to use modpath option?
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1. set modpath to modpath = 'insert folder name here'
2. inside modpath make a folder called menu
3. put all your png's in this folder.
4. Profit
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Again, thanks for the info. Is there an faq i miss where to find all options can handle ff7_opengl? (that's because my ff7_opengl at last, dont contain modpath)
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I'm not sure where to post this since the topic isn't specific (The topic said to post it, but it didn't say where, and the first post said not to reply in the topic).
I've been using Aali's custom driver for FF8 and its been working amazingly good, that is until I got on the train to go to Timber and it had the flashback sequence. Randomly at the end of a battle, when it switches to show the exp and items gained it randomly crashes. The first time I did it, it crashed on the second fight. The second time it did it on the first, and it seems to be random.
Heres the app.log and crash.dmp files, along with the save on the train right before the sequence. (http://www.file-pasta.com/file/0/error.zip)
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Hi everyone, i'm new in the forum, and i would need a little hand with this issue :(
I've been trying to play ff8, i had lots of crashes so i reinstalled and everything worked ok, till the 2nd disc, when squall is escaping from the galbadia desert prison, right after beating the boss, you run to the bridge, and a cg starts where the bridge splits apart, and you press right to keep squall safe, well, after that cg the screens goes black and the game crashes "ff8.exe has stopped working etc", i started using Aali's driver, i't worked greatly, but the game keeps crashing, at least i get the crash.dmp and the app.log.
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF8 1.2 US English (Nvidia)
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! 2.1.2
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1440x900, output resolution 1200x900, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZING SOUND...
initializing direct sound
EAXDirectSoundCreate
creating primary buffer
creating 3D listener interface
EAX: creating bogus sound buffer
EAX: creating bogus 3D buffer
EAX: Establishing listener property set interface
EAX: Checking for EAX support
EAX support initialized
EAX: set global reverb
initializing audio data
OK
initializing streaming
SOUND INITIALIZED
DIRECT MUSIC - Enumerating Ports...
PORT 0: C-Media USB Sound Device
GUID={0x490a03e8,0x742f,0x11d2,0x8f,0x8a,0x0,0xc0,0x4f,0xbf,0x8f,0xef}
PORT 1: Mapeador Microsoft MIDI [Emulado]
GUID={0xa691556b,0x165a,0x4637,0x8e,0x61,0x8d,0x30,0x4c,0x61,0x6c,0xea}
PORT 2: Sint. SW de tabla de ondas GS ( [Emulado]
GUID={0xa0219f9a,0x8dae,0x4cdc,0xa3,0x73,0x59,0x65,0x5a,0x27,0x12,0x1a}
PORT 3: Microsoft Synthesizer
GUID={0x58c2b4d0,0x46e7,0x11d1,0x89,0xac,0x0,0xa0,0xc9,0x5,0x41,0x29}
Creating Port1...
C-Media USB Sound Device
Port1 supports XG data
BinkClose
SdMusicPlay ()
sd_music_play (number=0, song_id=79, volume=0)
midi_play...
Stopping Performance
Loading DLS...
Playing Segment
midi_play successful
MIDI stop
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: \ff8\data\eng\field\mapdata\gp\gproof2\gproof2.sfx
BinkClose
SdMusicPlay ()
sd_music_play (number=0, song_id=59, volume=0)
midi_play...
Stopping Performance
Playing Segment
midi_play successful
Can't open file: \ff8\data\eng\field\mapdata\gp\gpexit2\gpexit2.sfx
BinkClose
BinkClose
ERROR: unhandled exception
Here it's the crash.dmp and the app.log:
Size 10.63 mb
http://www.mediafire.com/?pak4x5tmi8j71gi (http://www.mediafire.com/?pak4x5tmi8j71gi)
It fails in any resolution, with or without the custom driver, with software and hardware renderer.
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Edit:
I just reinstalled again, and the app.log es different this time
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF8 1.2 US English (Nvidia)
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! 2.1.2
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1440x900, output resolution 1200x900, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZING SOUND...
initializing direct sound
EAXDirectSoundCreate
creating primary buffer
creating 3D listener interface
EAX: creating bogus sound buffer
EAX: creating bogus 3D buffer
EAX: Establishing listener property set interface
EAX: Checking for EAX support
EAX support initialized
EAX: set global reverb
initializing audio data
OK
initializing streaming
SOUND INITIALIZED
DIRECT MUSIC - Enumerating Ports...
PORT 0: C-Media USB Sound Device
GUID={0x490a03e8,0x742f,0x11d2,0x8f,0x8a,0x0,0xc0,0x4f,0xbf,0x8f,0xef}
PORT 1: Mapeador Microsoft MIDI [Emulado]
GUID={0xa691556b,0x165a,0x4637,0x8e,0x61,0x8d,0x30,0x4c,0x61,0x6c,0xea}
PORT 2: Sint. SW de tabla de ondas GS [Emulado]
GUID={0xf93ddba8,0x6d82,0x46fb,0xbf,0x24,0xbe,0x70,0x3,0x1f,0x4b,0x75}
PORT 3: Microsoft Synthesizer
GUID={0x58c2b4d0,0x46e7,0x11d1,0x89,0xac,0x0,0xa0,0xc9,0x5,0x41,0x29}
Creating Port1...
C-Media USB Sound Device
Port1 supports XG data
BinkClose
SdMusicPlay ()
sd_music_play (number=0, song_id=79, volume=0)
midi_play...
Stopping Performance
Loading DLS...
Playing Segment
midi_play successful
MIDI stop
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: h:\DISK2
Can't open file: h:\DISK3
Can't open file: h:\DISK4
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: \ff8\data\eng\field\mapdata\gp\gproof2\gproof2.sfx
BinkClose
SdMusicPlay ()
sd_music_play (number=0, song_id=59, volume=0)
midi_play...
Stopping Performance
Playing Segment
midi_play successful
Can't open file: \ff8\data\eng\field\mapdata\gp\gpexit2\gpexit2.sfx
BinkClose
BinkClose
ERROR: unhandled exception
I'm not an expert, but it seems like for some reason the game is trying to open files that are supossed to be located in other disks
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: h:\DISK2
Can't open file: h:\DISK3
Can't open file: h:\DISK4
Can't open file: h:\DISK1
Can't open file: h:\DISK1 Also seems that some file is missing or something because this relative locations to the insallation folder doesn't exists:
Can't open file: \ff8\data\eng\field\mapdata\gp\gproof2\gproof2.sfx
Can't open file: \ff8\data\eng\field\mapdata\gp\gpexit2\gpexit2.sfx
I assumed that both were SoundFX files, so i tried other audio settings but it keeps crashing.
I also noticed about:
BinkClose
BinkClose
ERROR: unhandled exceptionI suppose that BinkClose function comes from the binkw32.dll, wich as far as i read closes the bink file opened by BinkOpen, and releases the allocated resources, with my limited knowledge about this, I understand that my game crashes because some audio files are missing somewhere. If someone can locate where these files are supposed to be it would be useful.
Any suggestion will be really appreciated :)
Thx for your attention
Thx for your time.
Ps: Sry for my bad english, i hope you can understand me :-\
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Hey guys sorry to bother everyone for such a small problem, but im not able to download aali's latest driver. Its coming up page error i was wandering if some one can up load it so i can get it downloaded please and thank you
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I nbotice they both overwrite the ff7config file. Which one do I apply first?
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Yeah I made two topics by mistake, I looked down and saw a topic concerning Aali's driver and it was moved to feedback so I made a topic there and tried to delete this one only to see I couldn't... so...
I have Aali's OpenGL driver and it works good and everything but it just won't show the textures in the textures folder. I installed Avalanche's High Res package and thought I just wasn't noticing the difference until I put in the blue limit break texture and some new avatars and neither have changed.
Here's my config file if it'll help.
Could it have anything to do with where the game folder is located? It's not in the default install location.
# ff7_opengl-0.7.8b config file
# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
# does not affect the old external textures feature, those should still go in textures/
mod_path = none
# use shaders, if available and supported
# turn shaders off to use the OpenGL 1.1 backend
use_shaders = yes
# plugins
# a movie plugin is required, the music plugin is optional, but required to make FF7Music work
movie_plugin = plugins/ffmpeg_movies.fgp
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
# vertex and fragment shaders
vert_source = shaders/main.vert
frag_source = shaders/main.frag
# YUV fast path shader
yuv_source = shaders/yuv.frag
# post-processing shader, used to apply fullscreen effects
post_source = shaders/bloom2.post
enable_postprocessing = no
# display frames per second counter in upper right corner
show_fps = no
# display some real-time debug information
show_stats = no
# set the window size (and fullscreen resolution) of FF7
# 0 means use original resolution (whatever ff7.exe provides)
# preserve_aspect adds black borders as needed to preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio
window_size_x = 1600
window_size_y = 900
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = yes
# prevent glitches due to rounding errors by rendering in the nearest (larger, if supported)
# multiple of the original resolution and up/down-scaling
prevent_rounding_errors = yes
# check your driver settings if this option doesn't seem to work
enable_vsync = yes
# limit snowboard, coaster and highway minigames to refresh rate / 2, i.e. 30fps for a 60hz display mode
# vsync must be enabled and working for this to have any effect
minigame_framelimiter = on
# same thing, but for the battle swirl
battleswirl_framelimiter = off
# replace FF7's default framelimiter timer source
use_new_timer = yes
# use a more stable (but less accurate) timer to control FF7's framelimiter
# this option has no effect unless the use_new_timer option is on
use_stable_timer = no
# allow FF7 to use linear filtering for its textures
# some things look slightly better with this option on, but alot of textures just lose their detail
linear_filter = off
# make all dialog boxes transparent, same effect as the transparent dialog boxes YAMP patch
transparent_dialogs = on
# allow max hp/mp to go over 9999, same effect as the YAMP patch by dziugo
break_9999limit = yes
# include armor in magic defense calculation
mdef_fix = yes
# expand battle viewport to cover entire screen and make the battle menu transparent
new_battle_interface = on
# enable alpha blending for textures without an existing blending effect
fancy_transparency = on
# store external textures in a compressed cache for increased performance
# compression is not lossless, some artifacts may appear when this option is in use
# texture cache does NOT update automatically if the source image changes, however, deleting anything from the cache
# will cause that file to be recreated from the source
compress_textures = yes
# read files directly instead of using LGP archives
# for example; if FF7 is looking for aaab.rsd in char.lgp, this option will make it open direct/char/aaab.rsd first,
# if this file doesn't exist it will look for the original in the LGP archive
# this option should be used for testing only, performance will take a hit
direct_mode = off
# show every failed attempt at loading a .png texture
# this option is for modders only, it's useful to find out which texture to replace and which palettes it needs
show_missing_textures = yes
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apply the 1.02 patch, then Aali's driver. 1.02 is required to use the driver.
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Got a crash in the middle of a battle in FF7. Here's the dump:
http://rapidshare.com/files/409061523/crash.zip (http://rapidshare.com/files/409061523/crash.zip) (it can only be downloaded 10 times. Only Aali should download it)
For mods, I'm only using the hires Cloud (the one from Sephiroth's fight) and the Chibi Reconstruction 1.5. Fancy transparency and post processing were turned on, but I guess I don't need those.
And here's APP.log, it doesn't say much though (If it helps, it crashed right when Cloud was charging the Braver Limit Break)...
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2 3.2.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1366x768, output resolution 1024x768, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Sint. softw.tab. sons wave MS G, mid=1, pid=102,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Arquivos de programas\Eidos Interactive\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 50
MIDI set volume: 127
50% of 127 = 63
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Arquivos de programas\Eidos Interactive\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
50% of 127 = 63
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
MIDI play: 37
reading midi file: EARISLO.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
50% of 127 = 63
UNEXPECTED: zero count
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
MIDI play: 31
reading midi file: DOKUBO.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
MIDI play: 31
song is already playing...
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
MIDI play: 31
song is already playing...
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Field Quit
Entering MAIN
MIDI play: 7
reading midi file: BAT.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
Exiting MAIN
Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Swirl sound_effect1
stop_sound
End of Swirl sound_effect1
Entering FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE
[BATTLE] Scene# 380
[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE
[BATTLE] Begin main battle loop
[BATTLE] End of current battle
[BATTLE] Begin end battle stuff
MIDI play: 46
reading midi file: FAN2.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
stop_sound
[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_QUIT
[BATTLE] endof battle.
[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_QUIT
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
MIDI cross fade: 31, time: 4
MIDI set volume trans: 127->15; step=2
MIDI set volume: 15
50% of 15 = 7
MIDI play: 31
reading midi file: DOKUBO.mid
current volume: 15
MIDI set volume trans: 15->127; step=2
MIDI set volume: 127
50% of 127 = 63
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Field Quit
Entering MAIN
MIDI play: 7
reading midi file: BAT.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
Exiting MAIN
Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Swirl sound_effect1
stop_sound
End of Swirl sound_effect1
Entering FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE
[BATTLE] Scene# 381
[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE
[BATTLE] Begin main battle loop
ERROR: unhandled exception
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Well, Tech Support is for getting your game running. Which it is. If it's a problem with the program you should probably post in that program's thread. I know it's a crazy thought, hell, you may even find your answer in that thread... that would be even CRAZIER! Warned, merged, etc
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Yeah I made two topics by mistake, I looked down and saw a topic concerning Aali's driver and it was moved to feedback so I made a topic there and tried to delete this one only to see I couldn't... so...
Well, Tech Support is for getting your game running. Which it is. If it's a problem with the program you should probably post in that program's thread. I know it's a crazy thought, hell, you may even find your answer in that thread... that would be even CRAZIER! Warned, merged, etc
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Well, Tech Support is for getting your game running. Which it is. If it's a problem with the program you should probably post in that program's thread. I know it's a crazy thought, hell, you may even find your answer in that thread... that would be even CRAZIER! Warned, merged, etc
LOL
FWIW, I deleted the cache folder and the textures started showing.
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The site where the links connect to seem to be down, just in case no one knew, and i literally JUST deleted my old 7.3 driver installer!
My "feedback/question" is:
Is it a bug that 7.3 is required to use TA's overhaul? and if so, is it being repaired in a newer release? (that is if there will be any newer releases)
Last thing, I still have 1 of my 2 FF7 installs on my computer with The custom driver. Is there any way that someone could supply a list of File and folder names that are needed for Aali's Custom driver (thever. is the last one that used the REG. File, I apologize for not knowing exact one i'm pretty sure it's either 7.3 or 7.5) , that can be found directly in the "Final Fantasy VII" folder, no need for sub-folders or any complicated lists. Just a general one so i can grab the correct files and transfer them over to a fresh install.
Please and thank you.
*Bows graciously*
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0.7.3 is not required to use TA. Go read our FAQ for a fix. There is no problem with his driver in that aspect. And it will be fixed in the next avalanche installer.
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I bought a copy of FF8 for the PC, and I've enjoyed being able to set my resolution (been meaning to try another Final Fantasy besides VII as well).
I had a random crash when I was fighting Fake President Whatshisname. It happened in the middle of the battle, which was wierd, and it worked the second time, so I don't have an APP.LOG to post (sorry), but I'll get the crash.dmp up in a minute.
Here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/409716957/crash.zip
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I think you get those errors randomly. I got it before in FF8 at random times but the second time I play it I play through it smoothly without problems. The only problem I have with this error is sometimes I don't save for a long time and when I get this error I'd have to start with the last place I save.
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Hi, I'm a n00b and I need some guidance.
I'm running Win7 x64, FF7 v1.02. I'm trying to install Aali's driver, and I've followed all the steps (as far as I know):
1) fill up all the save slots (save01...save09)
2) extract driver to FF7 directory
3) run FF7config and choose custom driver (self-test was successful)
4) modify ff7_opengl.cfg ("fullscreen = yes" to "fullscreen = no")
But when I run the game, nothing changes at all, it still runs fullscreen, graphics is the same, as if I didn't install the mod. My app.log is completely empty. What did I do wrong?
Sorry if the question has already been answered, I searched for a good half hour on this forum and the interweb without luck...
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Hi, I'm a n00b and I need some guidance.
I'm running Win7 x64, FF7 v1.02. I'm trying to install Aali's driver, and I've followed all the steps (as far as I know):
1) fill up all the save slots (save01...save09)
2) extract driver to FF7 directory
3) run FF7config and choose custom driver (self-test was successful)
4) modify ff7_opengl.cfg ("fullscreen = yes" to "fullscreen = no")
But when I run the game, nothing changes at all, it still runs fullscreen, graphics is the same, as if I didn't install the mod. My app.log is completely empty. What did I do wrong?
Sorry if the question has already been answered, I searched for a good half hour on this forum and the interweb without luck...
Run as admin.
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Is possible apply the bilinear filter on 2D filed graphic? ATM I have notice that filter work only, but very well, on initial 2D graphic (like buster img) and texture. IMO an implementation on background image can really improve the graphic.
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Hey guys. New guy here.
Couple days ago i found Aali's driver v 0.7.7b things were doing ok then i got the wind.wav errors. Then i found the new driver v 0.7.8b, now whenever i run the game I immediately get the "oops something bad happened" message. Anyone else get this and know how to fix it?
If you require the app.log and .dmp files please give me instructions on where or how I may share it. Like what fileshare site I should use.
Thanks.
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Hi guys.. I'm new and I think I need some help here ^^a
when I start the game for the first time, there's no sound when the cursor moves between new game and load game, and when the first scene (aerith in midgar, FF7 logo, and the moving train).
when I look ff7_opengl.cfg, I noticed there's a # before music plugins.
# plugins
# a movie plugin is required, the music plugin is optional, but required to make FF7Music work
movie_plugin = plugins/ffmpeg_movies.fgp
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
I'm not sure if it's the problem, but when I removed the #, the sounds that were missing before returned. but in exchange, the music in credits (producer, dll.) was gone.
also, there's a message ERROR: couldn't find movie files when I'm at new/load game screen.
in APP.log..
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator 2.0.0 - Build 8.15.10.1825
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1028x760, output resolution 1013x760, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: No errors.
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
[b]ERROR: couldn't open movie file
ERROR: couldn't open movie file[/b]
set music volume: 127
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
...
are those 2 related? and what should I do so the music will be there in both credits and first scenes?
Thanks before..^^
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The music plugin should only be used if you're using FF7Music. I recommend it anyway, because it can sound much better than the crappy midi versions of the music included with the PC version of FF7, as well as fix a number of volume errors throughout the game.
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First off I'd like to thank Alli for this immensely useful graphics driver for FF7.
I'm using the current version of the driver (0.7.8b) with all of the graphical assets from the current version of the Remix project (2.5.1). I've gotten about 10 hours into the game and I've received a few missing asset errors. Here are screen shots and the relevant lines from the APP.LOG file.
This one I get whenever I enter the world map.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/Steve007101/ff72010-08-1213-33-50-55.jpg)
-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
ERROR: libpng error: Read Error
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.tim
And I also receive onscreen errors whenever I enter a battle with Aeris or Tifa:
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/Steve007101/ff72010-08-1213-34-38-01.jpg)
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RVAE (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: EARITH.T02 RVAE
ERROR: could not open file EARITH.T02
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T02
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T02
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RVAI (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: EARITH.T06 RVAI
ERROR: could not open file EARITH.T06
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T06
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T06
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RVAJ (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: EARITH.T07 RVAJ
ERROR: could not open file EARITH.T07
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T07
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T07
...
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RVAJ (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: EARITH.T07 RVAJ
ERROR: could not open file EARITH.T07
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T07
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T07
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RVAK (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: EARITH.T08 RVAK
ERROR: could not open file EARITH.T08
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T08
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T08
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RVAL (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: EARITH.T09 RVAL
ERROR: could not open file EARITH.T09
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T09
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE EARITH.T09
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c147/Steve007101/ff72010-08-1213-40-06-69.jpg)
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RUAE (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: TIFA.T02 RUAE
ERROR: could not open file TIFA.T02
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T02
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T02
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RUAF (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: TIFA.T03 RUAF
ERROR: could not open file TIFA.T03
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T03
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T03
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RUAG (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: TIFA.T04 RUAG
ERROR: could not open file TIFA.T04
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T04
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T04
...
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RUAJ (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: TIFA.T07 RUAJ
ERROR: could not open file TIFA.T07
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T07
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T07
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RUAK (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: TIFA.T08 RUAK
ERROR: could not open file TIFA.T08
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T08
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T08
ERROR: failed to find file battle/RUAL (LGP) (path: FF7/DATA/BATTLE/EFFECT/HITMARK)
ERROR: offset error: TIFA.T09 RUAL
ERROR: could not open file TIFA.T09
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T09
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE TIFA.T09
I'm assuming these errors are the result of the incomplete model and texture patches that make up the FF7 Remix pack. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to prevent these errors or if there's some line I can enter in the ff7_opengl.cfg to prevent these errors from appearing onscreen.
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These issues are with the remix patch and they will probably be gone whenever there's a new release of the pack. IIRC there are also 3rd party fixes floating around for these things.
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Is it possible to make an Add On "to hide messages" (during field, world and battle mode) ?
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Is it possible to make an Add On "to hide messages" (during field, world and battle mode) ?
It's already possible to do it. Look on the first few pages of this thread.
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Is it possible to make an Add On "to hide messages" (during field, world and battle mode) ?
It's already possible to do it. Look on the first few pages of this thread.
When I play FF7 with custom graphics driver 7.8b, during worldmap, battle mode or field mode, there are always some messages as "ERROR, GLITCH..." they don't want to hide.
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Add the command "disable_popup = yes" on your ff7_opengl.cfg. However, hiding the messages isn't going to solve your problems. You shouldn't be getting any messages at all, there's obviously something wrong with your instalation.
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I have been having some issues with Aali's custom driver and FF7 remix. :(
I'm new to the forum and Ive been trying to find info about this issue on the internet but have been unsuccessful.
First I installed FF7 and the 1.02 patch, then remix (not realising that it already contained said patch) and it worked perfectly for a few days (and was awesome!). Then I decided to try playing around with some of the settings in the opengl config file. Being a newbie and not really knowing what i was doing I followed a tutorial i found on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flnmZEtVqls) after applying the changes I began to get an error message during battle: "GLITCH: Something tried to use hardware accelerated lighting, expect funky-looking models" (I've gathered that this may have something to do with Aeris having just joined my party but at the time I assumed it was because of the changes I had made. Now I'm not sure. :-\)
Changing the settings back in the config file did not solve the problem so i completely uninstalled the game and deleted all the mod files, then reinstalled everything over again and started the game and... black screen... "ff7.exe has stopped working"
I've repeated this process many times over the past few days and all I know is that the game will run fine with the 1.02 patch only, but if I try to use remix or Aali's driver it won't even start up.
I apologize if this is a question that has been answered already but all of my searches have been fruitless, so if it has been answered, at the very least can someone point me in the right direction?
thanks in advance.
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check to see if your card support openGL 2.0 or higher. if not turn off shaders on the first line of the config.
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The use_shaders option has no meaning if your renderer doesn't support OpenGL 2.0, its only useful to disable shaders when OpenGL 2.0 support IS available.
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My card is nVidia GeForce 8600M GT. Should have support for OpenGL 2.0
I turned off shaders, but it had no effect...
And that doesn't explain why it worked perfectly for several days then suddenly just crapped out on me. Clearly it should work (because it did work). But now it wont even run the game at all, even after fully uninstalling and reinstalling everything. That's what's frustrating.
As I mentioned before, it does work with the 1.02 patch but stops working when the OpenGL driver is installed. But just a week ago there was no issue... The version of the driver included on FF7 remix worked just fine. Now it doesn't... :-\
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Did you run the .reg file and do you have ff7input.cfg in the ff7 directory?
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Did you run the .reg file and do you have ff7input.cfg in the ff7 directory?
No... I don't see either in the ff7 directory. I assume they should have been included when I installed the game? I haven't removed anything from the directory.
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For Aali's custom driver to work, you need to have ff7input.cfg in your ff7 directory, and you need to run the ff7opengl registry file.
ff7input: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1LRdeu1DP17NmVmNjdhMzAtYmQzNi00MzBkLTk0YzQtMjFiMTUwMDQxNzhi&hl=en
64 bit reg:http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1LRdeu1DP17ZWU2MTdkNTQtOTFlMi00OTMzLWI0YzktM2VhOTdmYWJlZmVj&hl=en
32 bit reg:http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1LRdeu1DP17NTQ4ODZkNDYtNGQ5MC00NGFjLTlmNDMtOWY0ODQyZjI5OTM1&hl=en
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Not with 0.7.8b you dont. The .reg file was made obsolete by the modified FF7Config.exe and ff7input.cfg was only required for 0.7.7b because of a bug in that specific version.
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So I do not need those files? I'll give it a try anyway, because I've just about run out of ideas...
Does anyone have any thoughts on why it would have stopped working, given that I did nothing different on my first install (which did work) from what I've done on any of my subsequent installs (which have not)?
Update: I put ff7input.cfg into the ff7 directory and now I get as far as the opening FMVs (Eidos and Squaresoft logos) but it crashes before it gets to the new game/continue screen. I guess that's sort of an improvement.... :-/
The .reg file I downloaded from the above link appears to be an mp3 file so... idunno.
Thanks again for the suggestions thus far. Hopefully I can get this resolved eventually.
Update 2: I feel STUPID. As it turns out I wasnt using the latest version of the OpenGL driver. I downloaded and installed it and it basically fixed the issue for the most part. The game seems to run now, not perfectly, but the major issue has been fixed.
I am still rather curious what the issue actually was though... I mean when it originally worked I was using the driver included with FF7 remix (not the latest version) so why did that fix it now?
Anyway, thanks for the responses and the help. Much appreciated.
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So, at first you were using 0.7.3b, then you installed 0.7.7b which crashes whenever it cant find a file and now you have the latest version which does not have this problem. What a mess.
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bug report:
Your latest version seems to have broken Anti Aliasing (that or 32xQ still has a lot of jaggies)
Or the nvidia 256 drivers did.
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Hello everyone. Nice to know people are working on such cool FF7 projects. I'm not a total noob with game mods, and I've followed all the instructions from a clean install off my original FF7 disc, but I can't seem to get higher resolutions to work on my computer.
I'm using a GeForce 5200 with a 3Ghz P4. Is that enough to deliver higher res? Or does it not support OpenGL 2? The App log says OpenGL 2.0 support is detected, but in the config tool, it says the OpenGL render option is "busted". Not sure if that's a problem or supposed to display that.
Using the "Custom Driver" option, everything runs quickly smoothly in 640x480, in both windowed and full screen mode, no glitches. But when I go up to 800x600 (or higher) the game boots the EIDOS load screen VERY VERY slowly, like maybe a frame every few seconds. The music skips, and finally after two minutes or so, I get to the NewGame/Continue screen, and a button press will take me to the save game screen after maybe another minute or two. Is just the load screen this slow, and a beautiful game awaits me? I've not had the patience to get to the game screen, but I'm fairly certain it will be just as slow. Essentially everything "runs" but at unplayable slow speed.
What sort of questions do I need to be asking in order to get it working?
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Change to a resolution that is an even multiple of 640x480 like 1280x960 (1280x1024 works too thanks to aspect correction). Anything else will require scaling which is a bit too heavy for your graphics card.
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Has anyone been able to get a full screen start menu with the driver?
I followed the instructions on http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9141.0 but my menu is still small.
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Has anyone been able to get a full screen start menu with the driver?
I followed the instructions on http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9141.0 but my menu is still small.
You must install Aali's driver and TA patch and then put the image like buster_00.png inside the textures folder. Make sure you don't touch anything from the menu_us.lgp too.
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Thanks for the fast reply.
I have the Aali Driver installed but is it possible to still do this without the TA patch by just throwing in the buster_00.png into FF7/texture/WMRP/menu?
I've been trying it with a fresh install and I still get the regular menu. =\
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Thanks for the fast reply.
I have the Aali Driver installed but is it possible to still do this without the TA patch by just throwing in the buster_00.png into FF7/texture/WMRP/menu?
I've been trying it with a fresh install and I still get the regular menu. =\
nope, the original game does not look inside of the /textures/ folder at all, in fact it does not even know it exists. Aali had to develop this method so we could properly modify the game, which involves manually editing the TEX files so they point to that directory. If you can get your hands on the TA TEX file for the opening menu, then this could work though.
fyi, this support may possibly be built into the next version of the driver though, which could alleviate may problems such as this.
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It already is with modpath i believe.
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hmmm, I'm still having a lot of issues trying to get the modpath to work correctly. Placing textures in there seems to have no effect(cache off). Do they need to be in a certain folder structure? I got the WMRP files working, but i cant get the menus from the TA patch working independently.
lee
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Turn on the show missing textures. The app log will show you what directory/filename things need to be.
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Can't get my game to start anymore, and i really don't want to reinstall anything just yet. Could definitely use some help. i have the 1.02 patch, aali's cgd, and some other mods that were working fine until the other day when my the game just wouldn't start up. APP log reads: INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.7b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Intel Cantiga 1.5.0 - Build 7.15.10.1527
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
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Update to 0.7.8b
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hmm so i've updated to 0.7.8b and the game still won't start up. the app log now reads:
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Intel Cantiga 1.5.0 - Build 7.15.10.1527
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\music\music.idx
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\sound\audio.fmt
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I'm not an expert about looking at these kinds of problems but it says No OpenGL 2.0 support detected. Maybe your video card does not support OpenGL. What's your video card?
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nikfrozty: Don't be silly.
borilla: Do you have the files its asking for in their respective locations? You dont *need* ff7input.cfg to start the game but the other ones should really be there.
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my computer actually would not start ff7 without ff7input.cfg. Make a new TXT document and simply title it "ff7input.cfg" and place it in the FF7 directory. Should at least sort out that issue.
lee
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Because you were running 0.7.7b, its been fixed, get over it already. :P
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Yeah all 3 of them are exactly where it says they should be. when i try to start the game up the screen just goes black for a second and then it goes back to the desktop. It came out of nowhere too, I had an open morning thought i'd play ff7 and it pulls this on me. rude right?
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Hi Aali
I really need your help. I've followed the instructions to setup the custom driver but I'm having problems with FMVs. Basically they play really slow with artefacting along the bottom and right about 5 pixels wide. For some reason the videos won't play without the TrueMotion 2.0 codec installed either. Doesn't the custom driver use the ffmpeg plugin anyway? Nothing seems to be appearing in my APP.log file either. Any ideas?
Thanks
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OK found a small bug, i am using your driver 0.7.8 and just manipulated a enemy with my character who holds a Master Command Materia and this happened
(http://a.imageshack.us/img138/753/transparentbox.jpg)
it seems to keep the length of the original characters box when the new box comes up which is smaller causing the problem shown above.
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Hello there! Installed the 0.7.8 today and it is working great, there is just one thing which I cant get to work: Ficedula/FF7Music. I dont get any music in the game, but the normal sounds work just fine. ff7music.fgp file is in the plugins folder, also tried to remove it but that didnt change anything. Im playing on Windows 7 64-bit and without Aali's driver the game isnt playable at all (fmv's doesnt work, backgrouds doesnt work correctly etc...), but when playing without aali's driver FF7Music works.
EDIT: Oh I didnt notice that # thing in front of the "music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp", and after I removed it, FF7Music works now! Sorry about this post. :3
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Hi there, whenever I run the modified FF7Config.exe it crashes. But I'm still able to play the game with the Aali's driver. What's wrong ?
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If you give me module and offset from the crash report I can look into it :)
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EventType : BEX P1 : FF7Config.exe P2 : 0.0.0.0 P3 : 35fd9b33
P4 : FF7Config.exe P5 : 0.0.0.0 P6 : 35fd9b33 P7 : 0008bf00
P8 : c0000005 P9 : 00000008
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Ah yeah thats what I thought. DEP is disagreeing with my little hack, if you turn it off for FF7Config.exe (not the driver) it should work.
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Thanks it works ! Great job for your work dude x)
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I have a few issues to report.
During the opening movie.
ERROR: GL_INVALID_OPERATION
I also keep getting some texture error "Earith.tos" or something, i can't read the red text, try yellow, it stands out better. (This didn't show up in the log for whatever reason, but it happens frequently during battles.. Shinra HQ, after the prison scene\Jenova blood trail thing..)
The battle swirl frame limiter isn't working, and the bike mini-game wasn't frame limited either.
The first time I left Midgar, it was really dark, I don't remember if it's supposed to be night time, but that's how it looks, and I was getting a texture error..
ERROR: libpng error: Read Error
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE clf_lg.tim
Also, you should change the window title regardless of the window state(windowed\fullscreen), the .dll that I'm working on uses the window title to get the handle, it stopped working in fullscreen, I'm guessing because it was named "DEFAULT" instead of "Final Fantasy VII".
If this isn't enough info, let me know.
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Does the opening movie work?
Errors always show up in app.log and all those texture errors you have are because of the remix pack. The frame limiter doesn't work if vsync isn't enabled and working. Its supposed to be a bit dark when you exit midgar but perhaps you should make a screenshot. The window title is changed in fullscreen mode already, it just didn't make it into 0.7.8b. Either way, relying on that to find the window seems terribly hackish when you can use GetWindowThreadProcessId to find the correct one.
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Does the opening movie work?
Yeah it plays, the error seems to occur when I skip the movie(are there multiple movies?), by pressing a button.
The frame limiter doesn't work if vsync isn't enabled and working.
I have it set to "On, unless application specifies otherwise", and set to "yes" inside your .cfg file. Not sure why it wouldn't be working.
Radeon HD4850 + Catalyst 10.4
Edit: Setting it to always on, works, not sure why it wasn't picking up my device settings.
Its supposed to be a bit dark when you exit midgar but perhaps you should make a screenshot.
Here ya go, see what you think.
http://yfrog.com/mvworldmapp
Edit: After I moved away from Midgar, it brightened up a bit, it's not quite as bright as I remember it being, but it's not too dark either.
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A suggestion\request. (I didn't read the entire thread, so if this has already been mentioned, then disregard this.)
Implement battle menu transparency.
I would like just the elements to show, none of the background, but even making it like the text windows(semi transparent) would be an improvement.
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Edit: Any reason in particular you are messing with the wave volume slider? It's kind of an issue, I have ppl trying to sleep here. (It refuses to turn down, your patch keeps setting it to max.)
When I turn down the playback slider to the min I can't really hear it, one notch up, and it's loud.
I usually run the playback slider at notch 2, and the wave slider at about 25-50%.. (That's during the day when loud doesn't matter, so as you can imagine, it's blaring at 100%.. At 3am, not cool.)
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Some bugs with FF8:
The game seems to be running faster than usual on my PC.
I checked with Fraps and it says 31fps.
Also in battle, there appears to be feint blue boxes around the 'dust' that is kicked up when characters run.
Cheers
Also would just like to add, is there any way to make the world map textures of FF8 look like the PSX?
Would be great, as I think this is really the only thing stopping the PC version from being the superior version at this point.
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Whenever i run FF7Config.exe it crashes...says it stopped working
Windows 7 32-bit Version
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Meh, upgrade to 64bit windows ya lazy bum! Kidding, but have you tried running in compatibility mode? If not, try it, if that doesn't work then you can always add it to the registry manually. To do that you simply need to put the following in a .txt file and save it as a .reg file...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Graphics]
"DriverPath"="ff7_opengl.fgd"
"Driver"=dword:00000003
"Mode"=dword:00000002
You may also want to check the pseudo-crash log that it gives when it crashes and any actual crash if it saved one (which it should if it gives the popup)
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I guess i'll upgrade to 64bit if all of that doesnt work :-D
Thanks
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Small bug report:
In the NVIDIA control panel when Vertical Sync: Force On global setting is enabled, the minigame framelimiter doesn't seem to work.
I switched back to 'Use the 3D application setting, and it was ok.
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Which is a bug with your nvidia driver, but thanks anyway. Basically anything you change in any control panel is completely out of my control.
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Small bug report:
In the NVIDIA control panel when Vertical Sync: Force On global setting is enabled, the minigame framelimiter doesn't seem to work.
I switched back to 'Use the 3D application setting, and it was ok.
You also can't seem to force AA, nvidia is following the route of old ATI drivers
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is there anyway to insert a "Disable Screensaver" sort of function within the driver? On both of my computers the screensaver takes over after 15 minutes(blank screen) and it's annoying as hell. I know its not that hard to turn off the screensaver, but IIRC a few others were having a similar problem. If it's as simple as adding a bit of code it would be much appreciated, otherwise i'll continue to manually turn it off...when i remember.
lee
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is there anyway to insert a "Disable Screensaver" sort of function within the driver? On both of my computers the screensaver takes over after 15 minutes(blank screen) and it's annoying as hell. I know its not that hard to turn off the screensaver, but IIRC a few others were having a similar problem. If it's as simple as adding a bit of code it would be much appreciated, otherwise i'll continue to manually turn it off...when i remember.
lee
I hate to take this off topic, but I have to know... why use a screensaver?
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Would it be possible for the driver to tell us what level we are on? For example when you are on the Highwind deck it pops up with "Fship1" when the level first loads.
It would be really helpful for me and others when they are trying to edit the levels, but don't know which file that scene is in. There are multiple ones for some areas, and they all have the same text in, so its hard to tell which one is which.
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pyrozen:
Your prayers have been heard. There is also the problem of computers going into various sleep states while the game is running, is this something that should be prevented as well? How do directx fullscreen apps affect this?
ultima espio:
You can already do this quite easily, show_missing_textures also tells you about field textures. Of course its not a flashy ingame message but it should do.
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is there anyway to insert a "Disable Screensaver" sort of function within the driver? On both of my computers the screensaver takes over after 15 minutes(blank screen) and it's annoying as hell. I know its not that hard to turn off the screensaver, but IIRC a few others were having a similar problem. If it's as simple as adding a bit of code it would be much appreciated, otherwise i'll continue to manually turn it off...when i remember.
lee
If you have an LCD monitor (which everyone SHOULD have nowadays), screensavers are completely useless. I say turn them off.
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thanks for taking a look at this Aali, and it will go into hibernate as well. DX games seem to function perfectly, and the screensaver never appears.
As far as using a screen saver, i have some cool ones that i like. I don't care if they are "useless" on an LCD, the use for me is having a cool image moving around when i walk by.
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v 0.7.8b made FF7Music stop working...
with 0.7.7. i had no problems and it played the psf music but with this version it plays crappy midi sound again. :?
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When you copy and pasted the files from Aalia's 7.8 into the FF7 folder.. you replaced the ff7_opengl.cfg with the new 7.8 ff7_opengl.cfg.. so go edit that new file find - #music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp and remove this # from it. Then try FF7Music.
Let me know how that goes.
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i deleted this line #music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp and started the game but
that didn't work. it still plays the midi ingame.
ff7music spits out this:
WM_ACTIVATEAPP
INITIALIZE DD/D3D START
2011.527 | ERROR: [UXDriver.ApiX.Engine] 385@Nvidia::UXDriver::ApiX::CNvApixEngine::EnsureDesktop::InputDesktop::SetThread : Could not set thread desktop to input desktop due to the following error 170.
2011.685 | ERROR: [UXDriver.ApiX.Engine] 385@Nvidia::UXDriver::ApiX::CNvApixEngine::EnsureDesktop::InputDesktop::SetThread : Could not set thread desktop to input desktop due to the following error 170.
2011.706 | ERROR: [UXDriver.ApiX.Engine] 385@Nvidia::UXDriver::ApiX::CNvApixEngine::EnsureDesktop::InputDesktop::SetThread : Could not set thread desktop to input desktop due to the following error 170.
2011.708 | ERROR: [UXDriver.ApiX.Engine] 385@Nvidia::UXDriver::ApiX::CNvApixEngine::EnsureDesktop::InputDesktop::SetThread : Could not set thread desktop to input desktop due to the following error 170.
2011.710 | ERROR: [UXDriver.ApiX.Engine] 385@Nvidia::UXDriver::ApiX::CNvApixEngine::EnsureDesktop::InputDesktop::SetThread : Could not set thread desktop to input desktop due to the following error 170.
2011.774 | ERROR: [UXDriver.ApiX.Engine] 385@Nvidia::UXDriver::ApiX::CNvApixEngine::EnsureDesktop::InputDesktop::SetThread : Could not set thread desktop to input desktop due to the following error 170.
WM_ACTIVATEAPP
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i deleted this line #music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
No. You're only supposed to delete the # at the beginning. The rest of the line should still be there.
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Thank you now everything works. :)
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Hi,i have a little problem since i upgraded the ali drivers to version 0.7.8b.
First i had the remix mod with a fresh install of final fantasy vii installed and all worked fine (texture loading, 1024x768 full screen,etc...), then i tried another fresh install without the remix patch and with alis 0.7.6b drivers and all worked fine too except for some crashes at some points of the game.
This was the reason why i actually changed my drivers to the 0.7.8b but with this driver im not able to start the game.
On all versions (including the remix patcher that has alis drivers 0.7.3b) i get a start error (No useful indirect path found, search app.log for more infomation) but clicking on accept on this popup the game starts fine but on the 0.7.8b drivers after accepting the popup a new popup comes up (ooops something very bad happening.....) and the game doesnt start.I have tried the patch with a fresh install without mods and the with the remix patch but it doesnt go.
Im using the original cd version of FF7 and the disks are fine.Here is my app.log but i think its very hard to figure out what is happening.
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. FireMV 2400 PCI DDR x86/SSE2 1.3.1050 WinXP Release
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1024x768, output resolution 1024x768, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: No NPOT texture support
ERROR: init_indirect failed, scaling and postprocessing will be disabled
INFO: internal resolution clamped to 1024x768
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
ERROR: unhandled exception
Another thing, i only get the ooops crash dump error if i set my resolution to not fullscreen, if i set it to fullscreen the game simple has a black screen during 1-2 seconds and exits to desktop without giving me any error.The last string on app.log if i set it to fullscreen disappear (the unhandled exception string, the app.log ends in Lock Unlock Test)
Have tried setting resolutions like 640x480 full and not fullscreen, 800x600 full and not, 1280x800 full and not 1280x900 full and not and finally 1280x1024 full and not but my original resolution and notebooks max resolution is 1024x768 and thats the same resolution i was playing the game with older alis drivers so i think that the resolution is not the problem here.
I hope you have some ideas to help me out with this problem and sorry for my bad english, im learning it right now hehe and posting on forums and chats help very much.
Thanks and keep up making this great patch!!!
EDIT: Im using windows xp sp3 32 bit version.
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Upload your crash.dmp somewhere so I can take a look at it.
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On the crash.dmp i found many strings like C:\lib\src\graphics\gl\gl_code.cpp , c:/ff7/scr/.... that i do not have on my pc. Is that normal?
I have compressed the dump file to rar and uploaded it to mediafire and megaupload (compressed file size about 780 k and uncompressed about 20 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?hfhzw7r8tz347x4
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HT3ZZ57C
Thank you for your fast reply Ali !!!
EDIT: Remember that i get a crash.dmp file only if i set the resolution to window mode, on fullscreen i dont get errors but the game doesnt start up
EDIT 2: The only difference i see with remix patch and others is that this patch includes a eax.dll, can this bee the problem? I have copied all but i think that this dll is for ff8.
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Hello,
First time on the forums here. Glad I found this community. I'm having a small issue with the Aali patch.
I have followed the instructions. A) Fresh Install B) Installed 1.02 Retail Patch C) Extracted Aali's patch into the default folder location D) Ran Config and made sure it was set to "Custom" E) Modified the config file to change the screen resolution.
It appears to not be changing the screen resolution and I was hoping someone could offer some pointers.
Thank you!
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The new subtractive blending feature is at fault here. The driver assumes you have support for it if you have OpenGL 1.2 but apparently thats not enough. Unfortunately there's no config option you can turn off to work around this. See if there are any updates for your graphics card drivers, they might have added support for it.
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i deleted this line #music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
No. You're only supposed to delete the # at the beginning. The rest of the line should still be there.
That's what I said :P ???
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The new subtractive blending feature is at fault here. The driver assumes you have support for it if you have OpenGL 1.2 but apparently thats not enough. Unfortunately there's no config option you can turn off to work around this. See if there are any updates for your graphics card drivers, they might have added support for it.
Ohhh thats bad, there are no new drivers for the graphic card (searched on dell,ati and looked over google). I will use then the older opengl drivers,it crashes but the game is playable (+ i have a save anywhere patch so that is no prob).
Thank you very much for helping me with this.
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Hey guys, finally got that install disc I was looking for. So I went and got the 1.02 patch, and the Custom driver patch. But in Aali's info thread,it tells me to change settings with theff7.cfd file, and I don't know how to do that. I read through different threads and couldn't find an answer. So I booted up the game to try to play it, but the Eidos and Squaresoft Logos never came up, but when i clicked the "action" button on my game[ad it went to the new/ load screen. I clicked new game and it went black, and wouldn't load the intro movie. Any help/ info on what I did wrong? Thanks.
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You should know better that we at least need your app.log to see if we can help.
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What do you mean by that? I looked around. I'm legal. i'm asking the right people for help. And what's an app.log?
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What do you mean by that? I looked around. I'm legal. i'm asking the right people for help. And what's an app.log?
... did someone hijack your account? You've been around since 2008... you can't be serious right now.
I will consult with the other mods about possibly banning your account so the good name of guitar_dudester91 won't be trampled on any further..
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Well so far, I believe my problem was I didn't have TrueMotion 2.0. So I downloaded that after I reinstalled, and it works. So tomorrow I'm going to download all of this stuff again (1.02 and Custom) and see where it goes from there. I'm so glad the admins on this forum helped show me that. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it.
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Nice Driver here. ;) but i have found some bugs in this. more likely the screen transitions. while the
fps display constantly at 32 when the transition is not made. it began to really drop to 19 or something
when i go to next screen.. although this can be solved by entering the menu and exiting out again.
is there a fix for this already or i have to change some configuration..
thanks.. btw. good job with this got it working with Launcher 1.4 and some good add-ons. this is the only bug that i found.
updated. i found that the texture reload resets to 0 when i enter the menu and exit. but when
im entering a new screen it goes up again to some value. and il have to re-enter the menu again to reset it to 0 just to increase fps again/.
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Is there anything else I have to do to make the dialog boxes transparent in FF7? I've changed the config file, but it doesn't work. I have also tried the battle option, but all it does is expand the screen. There's no transparent boxes either. What am i doing wrong?
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Question about this mod path. Why does it need a path? Why can't it just be forced to be "/"
so that the folder is the root.
That seems to be far more logical, no?
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Hey everyone. No idea if this is a bug, but I got this driver and I also installed the Team Avalanche's patch and PRP patch as well. All is great when in the config. file I set my resolution to 640x480 but the moment I set even 1 pixel less or one pixel more, it lags to incredibly new lengths. The only tihng I have seen lag this much on my computer was a PS2 game played through PCSX2. I cannot figure out what the problem might be. Sure my computer is not great, but it can take this.
My SPECS are:
Video Card: GeForce FX 5200, 128 MB, integrated RAMDAC. Version 4.34.20.22.A5.
RAM: 1.0GB Single Channel DDR @ 199MHz (3-3-3-8).
CPU: AMD Sempron 2800+, 1.7GHz, Single Core.
The config. file is as follows:
# ff7_opengl-0.7.8b config file
mod_path = none
use_shaders = no
# plugins
movie_plugin = plugins/ffmpeg_movies.fgp
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
# vertex and fragment shaders
vert_source = shaders/main.vert
frag_source = shaders/main.frag
# YUV fast path shader
yuv_source = shaders/yuv.frag
enable_postprocessing = no
show_fps = no
show_stats = no
window_size_x = 640 (not able to go less or more than this!)
window_size_y = 480 (not able to go less or more than this!)
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = yes
prevent_rounding_errors = yes
enable_vsync = yes
minigame_framelimiter = on
battleswirl_framelimiter = off
use_new_timer = yes
use_stable_timer = yes
linear_filter = off
transparent_dialogs = on
break_9999limit = yes
mdef_fix = yes
new_battle_interface = on
fancy_transparency = on
compress_textures = yes
direct_mode = off
show_missing_textures = no
Any help would be appreciated.
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You will have to either turn off prevent_rounding_errors which causes some glitches or run in a multiple of 640x480. 1280x960 or 1280x1024 (which is reduced to 1280x960 by aspect correction) will work fine, for example.
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Okay I will try that. Thank you! :)
EDIT: Works like a charm. Thanks! I also forgot to say that I have no music.
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Okay I will try that. Thank you! :)
EDIT: Works like a charm. Thanks! I also forgot to say that I have no music.
in the drive cfg file you will see a line that says this:
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp if you are using FF7Music you need it to say this:
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgpif not leave it alone (With the Pound "#" sign)
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Okay I will try that. Thank you! :)
EDIT: Works like a charm. Thanks! I also forgot to say that I have no music.
in the drive cfg file you will see a line that says this:
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp if you are using FF7Music you need it to say this:
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgpif not leave it alone (With the Pound "#" sign)
Thanks, that works! :)
Is there anyway to put yer own music into the game? I know about FF7Music mod, but I'm talking about custom music.
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Okay I will try that. Thank you! :)
EDIT: Works like a charm. Thanks! I also forgot to say that I have no music.
in the drive cfg file you will see a line that says this:
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp if you are using FF7Music you need it to say this:
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgpif not leave it alone (With the Pound "#" sign)
Thanks, that works! :)
Is there anyway to put yer own music into the game? I know about FF7Music mod, but I'm talking about custom music.
Yes, replace the file in FF7 music with the mp3/ogg of your choice. if you have further questions on how to do that. please post it in a topic in Tech-support. Or the feedback for FF7music Thank you.
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Thanks again. My apologies for posting in the wrong thread. :)
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Well, after some playing around, I finally figured out why I couldn't get FF VII running in WINE on OS X. Any version of Aali's driver past 0.7.6b won't work (at least not on my hardware). Any of them with the modified FF7Config says "Could Not Initialize OpenGL, Driver Probably Will Not Work", but it will if you use any version before 0.7.7b
Now my only problem (unrelated) is getting FF7Music to not crash when it changes songs
Otherwise, OS X is now my perfect OS
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Well, after some playing around, I finally figured out why I couldn't get FF VII running in WINE on OS X. Any version of Aali's driver past 0.7.6b won't work (at least not on my hardware). Any of them with the modified FF7Config says "Could Not Initialize OpenGL, Driver Probably Will Not Work", but it will if you use any version before 0.7.7b
Now my only problem (unrelated) is getting FF7Music to not crash when it changes songs
Otherwise, OS X is now my perfect OS
try covarr's installer, w/ ogg or psf , this is how i have manged to get it working on my linux box. before that it would crash after song change.
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Well, after some playing around, I finally figured out why I couldn't get FF VII running in WINE on OS X. Any version of Aali's driver past 0.7.6b won't work (at least not on my hardware). Any of them with the modified FF7Config says "Could Not Initialize OpenGL, Driver Probably Will Not Work", but it will if you use any version before 0.7.7b
Now my only problem (unrelated) is getting FF7Music to not crash when it changes songs
Otherwise, OS X is now my perfect OS
try covarr's installer, w/ ogg or psf , this is how i have manged to get it working on my linux box. before that it would crash after song change.
Yeah, that's what I tried, but I'm going to try a few other things before I go back to that again.
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Hello, I'm having a problem with FF8 Movies using Aali's driver.
In app.log appears this
"GLITCH: NPOT texture support is required for movies to work"
Is there anyway to watch the movies without having NPOT support? and, not using fullscreen.
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Hi, this is my second try at patching something on the PC, so I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing wrong. I got FF7 to work just fine but FF8 Configurator (I'm using Samuel's) is giving me a error message, saying 'Failed to load custom driver,' so I can't even open it now. The original FF8 Config can be opened but only has a primary display driver.
Can someone help me out please? Thanks!
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Hi, this is my second try at patching something on the PC, so I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing wrong. I got FF7 to work just fine but FF8 Configurator (I'm using Samuel's) is giving me a error message, saying 'Failed to load custom driver,' so I can't even open it now. The original FF8 Config can be opened but only has a primary display driver.
Can someone help me out please? Thanks!
You have to put "ff7_opengl.fgd" in the same folder where FF8 is installed, that should solve your problem.
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You have to put "ff7_opengl.fgd" in the same folder where FF8 is installed, that should solve your problem.
Just tried as you suggested. Doing that gave me this message:
"Exception EAccessViolation in module FF8Configurator.exe at 00001F68.
Access violation at address 00401F68 in module 'FF8Configurator.exe'.
Read of address 00001058."
I think it has something to do with the eax.dll file. If I delete it I can get into the configurator but there's still no custom drive option.
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You have to put "ff7_opengl.fgd" in the same folder where FF8 is installed, that should solve your problem.
Just tried as you suggested. Doing that gave me this message:
"Exception EAccessViolation in module FF8Configurator.exe at 00001F68.
Access violation at address 00401F68 in module 'FF8Configurator.exe'.
Read of address 00001058."
I think it has something to do with the eax.dll file. If I delete it I can get into the configurator but there's still no custom drive option.
Try installing EAXUnified and you don't have to put Custom Drive like in FF7 in FF8Configurator, just configure it in ff8opengl.cfg file.
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Well, 0.7.8b Suddenly decided to start playing nice with WINE. Now if only I could replicate this process so I could write a tut.
Now, I'm down to this issue with FF7Music. You removed the WINE version of the helper, because it was no longer needed as of WINE 1.1.35, which is great, since it caused FF7Music to crash for me anyway. However, when I use the helper you have now, it doesn't even TRY to play the soundfiles I'm using with FF7Music.
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You have to put "ff7_opengl.fgd" in the same folder where FF8 is installed, that should solve your problem.
Just tried as you suggested. Doing that gave me this message:
"Exception EAccessViolation in module FF8Configurator.exe at 00001F68.
Access violation at address 00401F68 in module 'FF8Configurator.exe'.
Read of address 00001058."
I think it has something to do with the eax.dll file. If I delete it I can get into the configurator but there's still no custom drive option.
Try installing EAXUnified and you don't have to put Custom Drive like in FF7 in FF8Configurator, just configure it in ff8opengl.cfg file.
I already have it installed. What should I change in ff8opengl.cfg?
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The fake eax.dll breaks FF8Configurator? Nice find, I never would have figured that out myself. It will be fixed in the next version.
You need that eax.dll in the same directory as FF8.exe for the driver to work though. Thats also the only thing you should need aside from having installed the real EAXUnified. There's no config option that needs to be enabled for the driver to work in FF8.
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The fake eax.dll breaks FF8Configurator? Nice find, I never would have figured that out myself. It will be fixed in the next version.
You need that eax.dll in the same directory as FF8.exe for the driver to work though. Thats also the only thing you should need aside from having installed the real EAXUnified. There's no config option that needs to be enabled for the driver to work in FF8.
Real and fake?
I removed the FF8Configurator and all off its added components from the program folders for now, so I'm just using the original FF8Config. I do have EAXUnified installed and the eax.dll is in there but I'm still have trouble with crashes and occasionally lag. Rebooting usually fixes this but there's this one spot that I can't seem to get past no matter how many times I try.
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Hey there. I am still getting the wind.wav error at the Dyne scene. It hasn't crashed my computer (yet), but it has slowed everything WAY down. At this rate, it will take me an hour to get through the conversation/fight if it lets me. It still shows the classic "ERROR: could not read from file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\music\wind.wav" garbage.
For giggles, I went into FF7Config and switched to the default graphics driver and was able to get past the Dyne part, but then it crashed at the Chocobo race...
I really don't want to have to uninstall/reinstall everything again. :cry:
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any chance of incorporating the openGL driver settings into FF7config? As far as interface goes, the only thing i see missing is a n00b friendly way to adjust the driver setting.
Im also happy to report i haven't had any issues with crashing w/the latest version of the driver.
lee
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any chance of incorporating the openGL driver settings into FF7config? As far as interface goes, the only thing i see missing is a n00b friendly way to adjust the driver setting.
Im also happy to report i haven't had any issues with crashing w/the latest version of the driver.
lee
Its already planned, actually. I just never got around to it. Its alot of work for something that doesn't benefit me other than keeping the noobs at bay.
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You could simply write your own static linked FF7config prog.It just sets a few registry keys
and is very picky if they got wiped out or if no waveout or MIDI device is found.
With a new ff7config a noob can move his ff7 directory around or start the game via a linux livecd and Wine.
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Hello. I'm new but I'll try to not be stupid. :|
I was having a crash and I searched high and low to find Qhimm.com. I wasn't expecting something like this, let alone something that is still being used by other people ... :o The crash I was having is unrelated to the crash I am having now, and I searched this forum and found that it could probably be fixed by installing aali's drivers. Well the thread said by updating them but I hadn't installed them yet so I tried to do that.
I downloaded the latest drivers, I think they are 0.7.8, and I ran FF7Config, went to the graphics tab to select Custom Drivers and I get a crash.
AppName: ff7config.exe
ModName: atioglxx.dll
ModVer: 6.14.10.10188
Offset: 00087ad7
"The instruction at 0x5ed2aed8 referenced memory at 0x00000564. The memory could not be read.
Click on OK to terminate the program"
I searched around to no avail. Needless to say I am at a loss and am not sure what to do.
I've searched around and seen some interesting responses, but I'll tell you straight off the bat that I have an ATI HD3850 and definitely support OpenGL. I just wanted to get that out of the way.
I read something about a crash.dmp and app.log but I don't see any crash.dmp file and APP.txt is 0kb of completely empty.
Any help? :o
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I have the exact same problem, except with a Geforce 8800GTS and Windows 7 x64.
I copied the problem details:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: FF7Config.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 35fd9b33
Fault Module Name: FF7Config.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 35fd9b33
Exception Offset: 0008be00
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1053
Additional Information 1: c7c0
Additional Information 2: c7c0a3fba94530a9279547df722f592e
Additional Information 3: 158a
Additional Information 4: 158ab155e28a5cefea12773a2cbd2ea7
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I installed Final Fantasy VII and applied the 1.02 patch. Then I installed Aali's Drvier, turned of full screen and set the resolution to 720x480. Whenever I load up this is what I see.
(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8541/ff7.png)
Running a 9800GT with the latest drivers, and Windows XP SP3
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Davikar:
Its a known problem, turn off DEP for FF7Config and it will work. Already fixed for next release.
kiteswitch:
Weird stuff, do you have a cfg.log? You should have it but it might be empty.
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Which version of the driver? Paste first ~10 lines of app.log.
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Somehow I forgot to include that.
Drivers version: 0.7.8b
app.log
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 9800 GT/PCI/SSE2 3.3.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 720x480, output resolution 720x480, internal resolution 1280x480
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
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Odd. Did you try updating your graphics card drivers?
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*Sigh* It's still crashing in the same spot. Would someone be willing to play through my save file for me until the next savepoint?
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That also happens to me. On the list of renderers it says "Broken" next to the OpenGL. Is that normal?
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I had the exact same problem happening to me.
A new install fixed it for some weird reason.
Try reinstalling, it might fix it.
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Odd. Did you try updating your graphics card drivers?
I have the latest drivers, from the nVidia website.
I had the exact same problem happening to me.
A new install fixed it for some weird reason.
Try reinstalling, it might fix it.
This is my 2nd installation :(
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You are correct, I have it but it's empty. :)
If there is anything else I can do to help just let me know.
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That also happens to me. On the list of renderers it says "Broken" next to the OpenGL. Is that normal?
Completely normal. Thats the OpenGL driver Eidos included with the 1.02 patch.
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You are correct, I have it but it's empty. :)
If there is anything else I can do to help just let me know.
See this is what I *didn't* want to hear :P
Because that means something goes wrong when its trying to setup OpenGL and there's practically nothing in there that could cause a crash. My money is on broken graphics card drivers.
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Aali is there any fix for this?
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Dynamic, that certainly is an unusual problem. A few questions:
1. Is it a legit copy of the game? Weird-ass problems are frequently caused by using a pirated edition of the game; you never know how its been hacked.
2. can you post the contents of your ff7_opengl.cfg in code tags?
You've got a 9800GT, same is me. I know for sure FF7 works with this card, so if your drivers are up to date then that shouldn't be the problem at all.
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It's a legit copy of the game for sure.
Cfg:
# ff7_opengl-0.7.8b config file
# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
# does not affect the old external textures feature, those should still go in textures/
mod_path = none
# use shaders, if available and supported
# turn shaders off to use the OpenGL 1.1 backend
use_shaders = yes
# plugins
# a movie plugin is required, the music plugin is optional, but required to make FF7Music work
movie_plugin = plugins/ffmpeg_movies.fgp
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
# vertex and fragment shaders
vert_source = shaders/main.vert
frag_source = shaders/main.frag
# YUV fast path shader
yuv_source = shaders/yuv.frag
# post-processing shader, used to apply fullscreen effects
post_source = shaders/bloom2.post
enable_postprocessing = no
# display frames per second counter in upper right corner
show_fps = no
# display some real-time debug information
show_stats = no
# set the window size (and fullscreen resolution) of FF7
# 0 means use original resolution (whatever ff7.exe provides)
# preserve_aspect adds black borders as needed to preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio
window_size_x = 720
window_size_y = 480
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = no
# prevent glitches due to rounding errors by rendering in the nearest (larger, if supported)
# multiple of the original resolution and up/down-scaling
prevent_rounding_errors = yes
# check your driver settings if this option doesn't seem to work
enable_vsync = yes
# limit snowboard, coaster and highway minigames to refresh rate / 2, i.e. 30fps for a 60hz display mode
# vsync must be enabled and working for this to have any effect
minigame_framelimiter = on
# same thing, but for the battle swirl
battleswirl_framelimiter = off
# replace FF7's default framelimiter timer source
use_new_timer = yes
# use a more stable (but less accurate) timer to control FF7's framelimiter
# this option has no effect unless the use_new_timer option is on
use_stable_timer = no
# allow FF7 to use linear filtering for its textures
# some things look slightly better with this option on, but alot of textures just lose their detail
linear_filter = off
# make all dialog boxes transparent, same effect as the transparent dialog boxes YAMP patch
transparent_dialogs = off
# allow max hp/mp to go over 9999, same effect as the YAMP patch by dziugo
break_9999limit = no
# include armor in magic defense calculation
mdef_fix = yes
# expand battle viewport to cover entire screen and make the battle menu transparent
new_battle_interface = off
# enable alpha blending for textures without an existing blending effect
fancy_transparency = on
# store external textures in a compressed cache for increased performance
# compression is not lossless, some artifacts may appear when this option is in use
# texture cache does NOT update automatically if the source image changes, however, deleting anything from the cache
# will cause that file to be recreated from the source
compress_textures = yes
# read files directly instead of using LGP archives
# for example; if FF7 is looking for aaab.rsd in char.lgp, this option will make it open direct/char/aaab.rsd first,
# if this file doesn't exist it will look for the original in the LGP archive
# this option should be used for testing only, performance will take a hit
direct_mode = off
# show every failed attempt at loading a .png texture
# this option is for modders only, it's useful to find out which texture to replace and which palettes it needs
show_missing_textures = no
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You are correct, I have it but it's empty. :)
If there is anything else I can do to help just let me know.
See this is what I *didn't* want to hear :P
Because that means something goes wrong when its trying to setup OpenGL and there's practically nothing in there that could cause a crash. My money is on broken graphics card drivers.
My money is on that too. These hotfix drivers are a piece of junk.
I initially went back to ATI from Nvidia because I thought it would be better than having to go through Nvidia's bag-o-drivers. I paid a lot of money for this graphics card to give me these kinds of unexplainable problems. I'm starting to think that a little bit of driver-diversity wouldn't be so bad right about now. I'm on 10.9 and I would have to go back to 6.12 or more just to get an older opengl version. To be fair this isn't the first time my opengl has tossed a putrid fart at me but it's usually because an older version of opengl is being used that my drivers do not support. (i.e. neverwinter nights, kotor, etc)
I could ask ATI to look at it but I've tried that before. They are perfectly aware that their drivers do not offer the best support for opengl. The only thing truly certain is that next time I buy parts for my PC, I will buy from Intel and Nvidia. But I have to laugh (if it's even funny) whenever some Nvidia user complains and says that they are going to go to ATI. :o
Well I guess I am off to the ATI forums. ???
Seems trivial at best. Do they even read their forums? Somehow I doubt it. I know the manufacturers do. Maybe it would be a better idea to send an email to powercolor first. :|
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window_size_x = 720
window_size_y = 480
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = no
Why would you do this? The game natively runs at 640x480. If you want it in windowed mode, try changing that 720 to 640.
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window_size_x = 720
window_size_y = 480
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = no
Why would you do this? The game natively runs at 640x480. If you want it in windowed mode, try changing that 720 to 640.
I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, I fixed my problem. After I selected the custom drive I turned on the nVidia checkbox selected the 128 option and all good.
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I have no idea what's going on, the game literally just stop running for no reason. The only change I made was replacing an older version of Aali's driver with the latest. Here's the app.log
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8400 GS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! 3.3.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1600x900, output resolution 1600x900, internal resolution 1920x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Users\Public\Games\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Users\Public\Games\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/buster_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
ERROR: unhandled exception
Field Start
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
UNEXPECTED: invalid blendmode (458756)
BLEND MODE NOT FOUND
ERROR: unhandled exception
Blendmode?
Here's my config if anything
# ff7_opengl-0.7.8b config file
# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
# does not affect the old external textures feature, those should still go in textures/
mod_path = none
# use shaders, if available and supported
# turn shaders off to use the OpenGL 1.1 backend
use_shaders = yes
# plugins
# a movie plugin is required, the music plugin is optional, but required to make FF7Music work
movie_plugin = plugins/ffmpeg_movies.fgp
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
# vertex and fragment shaders
vert_source = shaders/main.vert
frag_source = shaders/main.frag
# YUV fast path shader
yuv_source = shaders/yuv.frag
# post-processing shader, used to apply fullscreen effects
post_source = shaders/bloom2.post
enable_postprocessing = no
# display frames per second counter in upper right corner
show_fps = no
# display some real-time debug information
show_stats = no
# set the window size (and fullscreen resolution) of FF7
# 0 means use original resolution (whatever ff7.exe provides)
# preserve_aspect adds black borders as needed to preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio
window_size_x = 1600
window_size_y = 900
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = no
# prevent glitches due to rounding errors by rendering in the nearest (larger, if supported)
# multiple of the original resolution and up/down-scaling
prevent_rounding_errors = yes
# check your driver settings if this option doesn't seem to work
enable_vsync = yes
# limit snowboard, coaster and highway minigames to refresh rate / 2, i.e. 30fps for a 60hz display mode
# vsync must be enabled and working for this to have any effect
minigame_framelimiter = on
# same thing, but for the battle swirl
battleswirl_framelimiter = off
# replace FF7's default framelimiter timer source
use_new_timer = yes
# use a more stable (but less accurate) timer to control FF7's framelimiter
# this option has no effect unless the use_new_timer option is on
use_stable_timer = no
# allow FF7 to use linear filtering for its textures
# some things look slightly better with this option on, but alot of textures just lose their detail
linear_filter = off
# make all dialog boxes transparent, same effect as the transparent dialog boxes YAMP patch
transparent_dialogs = off
# allow max hp/mp to go over 9999, same effect as the YAMP patch by dziugo
break_9999limit = no
# include armor in magic defense calculation
mdef_fix = yes
# expand battle viewport to cover entire screen and make the battle menu transparent
new_battle_interface = on
# enable alpha blending for textures without an existing blending effect
fancy_transparency = on
# store external textures in a compressed cache for increased performance
# compression is not lossless, some artifacts may appear when this option is in use
# texture cache does NOT update automatically if the source image changes, however, deleting anything from the cache
# will cause that file to be recreated from the source
compress_textures = yes
# read files directly instead of using LGP archives
# for example; if FF7 is looking for aaab.rsd in char.lgp, this option will make it open direct/char/aaab.rsd first,
# if this file doesn't exist it will look for the original in the LGP archive
# this option should be used for testing only, performance will take a hit
direct_mode = off
# show every failed attempt at loading a .png texture
# this option is for modders only, it's useful to find out which texture to replace and which palettes it needs
show_missing_textures = no
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Dynamic:
But.. that option has absolutely no effect on the custom driver. Changing to a resolution which doesn't require scaling would still have been a good idea though, could be that the FBO was acting up.
Tuxedo:
Thats some messed up shit you got there. I'd say you have some corrupted data files or something.
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Hey Aali, this is a small bug which isn't much but, after i upgraded to 0.7.8b whenever i quit the game the ff7.exe process stays open, and i have to end it myself all the time. I had the same problem with a much older version as well, but that was fixed when i updated a while back. Any idea what could be causing this?
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Hey Aali, this is a small bug which isn't much but, after i upgraded to 0.7.8b whenever i quit the game the ff7.exe process stays open, and i have to end it myself all the time. I had the same problem with a much older version as well, but that was fixed when i updated a while back. Any idea what could be causing this?
Do you have compatibility mode turned on? That's almost always the culprit in this case.
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Wow, that was it. I remembered it does that as soon as I read your post too lol. I have no idea why compatibility mode was on in the first place, I don't remember turning it on, and I never needed it anyway.
Whatever, it works, sorry for bothering you Aali.
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Covarr's ff7music installer turns it on i think.
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Covarr's ff7music installer turns it on i think.
Really? That makes sense now because i upgraded the opengl driver right before i tried the FF7music installer.
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Yeah, that's my fault. Compatibility mode is needed for FF7Music in Vista and 7, though I'll set it not to turn it on in XP in future releases, since it's been reported that it works just fine without. 7 (and probably Vista) also doesn't have the problem with FF7 not closing, so everything works out nicely!
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window_size_x = 720
window_size_y = 480
preserve_aspect = no
fullscreen = no
Why would you do this? The game natively runs at 640x480. If you want it in windowed mode, try changing that 720 to 640.
A good window would be 800*600 (especially for avalanche graphics windowed). 800/640 = 1.25, 600/480 = 1.25. but you are right, the original is 640*480 and you should always try to use equal multiples. Certainly not 720*480.
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I know you guys probably get asked for help on this alot, but I really wanna try the graphic mods and such with ff7. I downloaded the 1.2 patch and tried to install the Aali custom driver patch, but when I try to load game i get an error message. Here's the App log.
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Intel 845G 1.3.0 - Build 4.14.10.3889
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
ERROR: unhandled exception
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Known problem, try to update your graphics drivers, if that doesn't work you'll have to wait for the next release or use an older version, like 0.7.3b.
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This is a very small quirk, not really a problem, but the Credits at the beginning roll way too fast. Again, it's not much of a problem but occasionally i sit at that screen to listen to the prelude. ::) Is it possible for you to include a framelimiter for that portion? It really doesn't affect the game in any way so doesn't matter if you don't.
Also i noticed that while the bloom looks plain bad in a lot of places, in some places it could look good. Do you have plans to add any way to adjust the intensity in future versions? I feel with a bit of tweaking it could be subtle enough to make the game look really good.
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Credits (and everything else) abides by vsync, at 60hz its certainly not too fast. The driver does not and probably will not include any framelimiting that isn't based on vsync.
If you are refering to the postprocessing shader that comes bundled with the driver its just a proof of concept. Its not really meant to be used out of the box.
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This is a very small quirk, not really a problem, but the Credits at the beginning roll way too fast. Again, it's not much of a problem but occasionally i sit at that screen to listen to the prelude. ::) Is it possible for you to include a framelimiter for that portion? It really doesn't affect the game in any way so doesn't matter if you don't.
I went into this in a video. The credits move 2X faster to compensate for the 2X greater distance to the PSX version (which runs at 320*240 and not 640*480). However, the font itself is not as good as the PSX and it begins its scroll at the wrong time.
See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDzDYo8OjP0
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Credits (and everything else) abides by vsync, at 60hz its certainly not too fast. The driver does not and probably will not include any framelimiting that isn't based on vsync.
Odd, because i have v-sync enabled and it seems to limit everything everything but the menu credits. That's why i thought perhaps it was unconnected.
For me the credits are done within about 1/4 of the prelude song.
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also it doesn't limit the menu which correctly runs at 60fps, just like the credit screen.
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I've tried and tried to get the aali custom driver to work, but no luck. Did everything step by step...downloaded the 1.02 patch, the save files were in the folder, and using non-ultima version. When I go to config the driver I can see "Open GL (BROKEN)" in the drop down menu when selecting customer driver, even though I still get the "ok" popup saying it's ready to go. I even tried the old Saints High Res mod. The game actually started but never got pass the opening sequence. Any tips?? I really wanna try out all these graphic mods and such
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I've tried and tried to get the aali custom driver to work, but no luck. Did everything step by step...downloaded the 1.02 patch, the save files were in the folder, and using non-ultima version. When I go to config the driver I can see "Open GL (BROKEN)" in the drop down menu when selecting customer driver, even though I still get the "ok" popup saying it's ready to go. I even tried the old Saints High Res mod. The game actually started but never got pass the opening sequence. Any tips?? I really wanna try out all these graphic mods and such
I've found the problem. Don't pick "Open GL": pick "Custom Driver" instead. Your drop-down menu does have a custom driver option, doesn't it? Because if it doesn't, then you have an extremely odd problem.
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Actually as I understood it he did pick the custom driver. Anyway an app.log would be helpful.
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Actually as I understood it he did pick the custom driver. Anyway an app.log would be helpful.
Yes, I did pick custom driver. Just uninstalled then reinstalled the game to try it again, but once again no luck. Here's the App log.
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Intel 845G 1.3.0 - Build 4.14.10.4342
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
ERROR: unhandled exception
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Ah, its you.. You already posted that and I already answered, like 10 posts up.
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I've tried a couple of older versions and updated the drivers, still no luck. My graphics controller is an Intel 828456 and I downloaded updated drivers from the Intel site. Just incase I may have did something wrong I'll list step by step of my procedure.
1. Play game and save all ten slots
2. Copy Config and .exe file from 1.02 patch to FF7 directory
3. Copy all files from Custom driver folder into ff7 directory
4. run cofig and choose custom driver
I've just noticed that when I use the 1.02 patch and try to play the game (before installin custom driver) the game won't load. Just a black screen. Cant even exit out, have to restart the computer.
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Hello. Thanks for the great driver for the great game :) Yet I need some help.
I prefer my monitor to work in 85Hz mode, but the game always starts with 60Hz, despite it is setted 85 in dxdiag settings. So I have to switch to monitor settings and set 85Hz manually every time I start the game. It's inconvenient...
Also, is there an another way to get 30 fps in minigames than calculating it by halving the refresh rate value?
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Hi Aali, I have a feature suggestion.
FF7 PSX had a feature that reset the game if you pressed L1, L2, R1, R2, Start, Select buttons at the same time.
As far as I know, FF7 PC does not have that (I could be wrong, but it has never worked for me).
Would you be able to implement it into your driver?
It's really nice to be able to load another save quickly, I have seen a lot of people want a 'load' option on the menu, but this is better since you can do it in battle.
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Ive gone through these forums over and over trying to figure out how to fix the "ERROR: init_indirect failed, scaling and postprocessing will be disabled" problem. I tried changing my resolution to 640x480, I tried turning off prevent_rounding_errors, I tried updating my video card...nothing worked.
I tried changing the renderer to OpenGL[BROKEN] and for some reason it worked out but it screwed up my resolution and the battles came with white blocks. Im using .7.8b. Should I try other versions?
Help?
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator 1.5.0 - Build 7.14.10.1437
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Original resolution 1280x1024, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 0x0
I also noticed that my internal resolution is 0x0. Could that be a problem? ^
INFO: No NPOT texture support
ERROR: init_indirect failed, scaling and postprocessing will be disabled
INFO: internal resolution clamped to 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
I have a Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family and I have tried to update it and it says that it is up to date.
I also have Vista and run everything as administrator. From the config to the game.
(http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7876/ff7o.jpg)
^with the custom driver
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/663/ff7open.jpg)
^with OpenGl[BROKEN] but the screen is blown up and cant see whole thing
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7612/ff7beg.jpg)
^Error before the game even begins with custom driver
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Don't use the old high-res patch.
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What do you mean?
The Saintz patch? I uninstalled my game and reinstalled it without that patch on. If its still on my game how do I get rid of it?
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i think your problem is no opengl 2.0 support but i don't sure if is this :-\
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Well, thanks to Aali my problemis fixed. I just cant leave fullscreen mode but I guess thats better then nothing :P
I take that back xD The beginning Eidos and Squaresoft doesnt show and I cant start a new game xD More help?
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I can offer some help. This doesn't belong in Tech Related.
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Sorry...But I uninstalled and reinstalled the game and still the same error but less glitches so I think its ok for now
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The game crash happens when my party enter to a battle in this area,I use the Aali's Custom Graphics Driver 0.7.8b
Here is the screenshot
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/8541/ff7.png
My config
# ff7_opengl-0.7.8b config file
# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
# does not affect the old external textures feature, those should still go in textures/
mod_path = none
# use shaders, if available and supported
# turn shaders off to use the OpenGL 1.1 backend
use_shaders = yes
# plugins
# a movie plugin is required, the music plugin is optional, but required to make FF7Music work
movie_plugin = plugins/ffmpeg_movies.fgp
#music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
# vertex and fragment shaders
vert_source = shaders/main.vert
frag_source = shaders/main.frag
# YUV fast path shader
yuv_source = shaders/yuv.frag
# post-processing shader, used to apply fullscreen effects
post_source = shaders/bloom2.post
enable_postprocessing = no
# display frames per second counter in upper right corner
show_fps = yes
# display some real-time debug information
show_stats = no
# set the window size (and fullscreen resolution) of FF7
# 0 means use original resolution (whatever ff7.exe provides)
# preserve_aspect adds black borders as needed to preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio
window_size_x = 800
window_size_y = 600
preserve_aspect = yes
fullscreen = yes
# prevent glitches due to rounding errors by rendering in the nearest (larger, if supported)
# multiple of the original resolution and up/down-scaling
prevent_rounding_errors = yes
# check your driver settings if this option doesn't seem to work
enable_vsync = yes
# limit snowboard, coaster and highway minigames to refresh rate / 2, i.e. 30fps for a 60hz display mode
# vsync must be enabled and working for this to have any effect
minigame_framelimiter = on
# same thing, but for the battle swirl
battleswirl_framelimiter = off
# replace FF7's default framelimiter timer source
use_new_timer = yes
# use a more stable (but less accurate) timer to control FF7's framelimiter
# this option has no effect unless the use_new_timer option is on
use_stable_timer = no
# allow FF7 to use linear filtering for its textures
# some things look slightly better with this option on, but alot of textures just lose their detail
linear_filter = off
# make all dialog boxes transparent, same effect as the transparent dialog boxes YAMP patch
transparent_dialogs = off
# allow max hp/mp to go over 9999, same effect as the YAMP patch by dziugo
break_9999limit = no
# include armor in magic defense calculation
mdef_fix = yes
# expand battle viewport to cover entire screen and make the battle menu transparent
new_battle_interface = off
# enable alpha blending for textures without an existing blending effect
fancy_transparency = on
# store external textures in a compressed cache for increased performance
# compression is not lossless, some artifacts may appear when this option is in use
# texture cache does NOT update automatically if the source image changes, however, deleting anything from the cache
# will cause that file to be recreated from the source
compress_textures = yes
# read files directly instead of using LGP archives
# for example; if FF7 is looking for aaab.rsd in char.lgp, this option will make it open direct/char/aaab.rsd first,
# if this file doesn't exist it will look for the original in the LGP archive
# this option should be used for testing only, performance will take a hit
direct_mode = off
# show every failed attempt at loading a .png texture
# this option is for modders only, it's useful to find out which texture to replace and which palettes it needs
show_missing_textures = no
And the crash.dmp
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VITYZI4D
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Using any mods? Which weapons did you have equipped? Exactly which scene were you in?
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Using no mods except for a soundfont whit TiMidity++
Cloud level 16 Mythril Saber,Mythril Armlet,Star Pendant,lighting,fire,ice,sense
Red XIII level 14 Mythril Clip,Mythril Armlet,enemy skill,sense,steal,poison
Aeris level 14 Mythril rod,Mythril Armlet,ice,chocomog,heal,all
After the escene with the midgar zolom imapled by Sephiroth,first time in the mine.
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Okay :) The reason I was being so specific is because I can't fix that unless I can reproduce it and so far I've dismissed similar reports as driver bugs, now however I have received enough similar reports to reconsider it. This reminds me of another crash that goes waaay back, like in the 0.6 releases. Perhaps it is even a bug in FF7 itself.
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FOUND IT THE THREAD!
Using .7.9b and Team Avalanche's latest release (including GUI 2.07).
Okay a few things: I'm on a laptop and use ff7input but there seem to be some problems. I've tried fixing them by going to the ingame config but that yielded no progress. Anyway whenever I hold shift, up, and left Cloud only runs up rather than diagonal. It's only this combination though every other one works. Also many non keyboard buttons (volume up/down etc.) seem to hit cancel and field (pointer finger). Also my right shift brings up the menu but it also hits cancel and field. Does anyone have any ideas?
Also I need to turn ff7music's volume down to 35/255 to be able to hear the sound effects. I was wondering if there is any way to change the sound effects volume?
Also caching seems to make some Team Avalanche imported textures (but not others) come through. For instance, restore still uses the old one. This isn't a modpath issue either. Also it works fine with caching off. On the topic of spells, I can see the square edge of the bolt 1's "plumes" texture. I don't think it's the texture's fault since TA makes all textures 1 to 1 replica updates.
Also I ran through the motorbike game recently and an error came up about the vsync (I couldn't catch it though). I checked the .cfg and it said the framelimiter needs the vsync turned on but there was no option for it anywhere in the file.
Looks at thread title. Looks at stickies. Crap.
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Having some trouble finding out whats going on here.. when I load the game I get two errors, any suggestions or help is much appreciated guys.
(http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3748/errordgoz.jpg) (http://img688.imageshack.us/i/errordgoz.jpg/)
I have the latest drivers 260.99 on my GeForce 6600 GT.
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.9b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Microsoft Corporation GDI Generic 1.1.0
INFO: GDI software renderer detected
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Subtractive blending not supported
INFO: No swap_control extension, cannot control framerate
INFO: Texture compression not supported
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 1024x1024
INFO: Number of texture units: 1
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 800x600, output resolution 800x600, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: No NPOT texture support
ERROR: init_indirect failed, scaling and postprocessing will be disabled
INFO: internal resolution clamped to 800x600
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
Not too sure where to go to next i'm no computer programmer but I do understand things decently I believe haha.
p.s was my post deleted to the trash can? kind of curious why if an admin did that or I misclicked something?
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Yeah I'm actually positive I deleted this post by you yesterday. Why you ask? Well because this isn't even the version you're using...and that's overly obvious. And on top of that you already posted in the .7.9 version thread. Thereby making you an asshole for posting about your problem in multiple threads.
Now I don't like you. So you don't get to post for a while.
Also, this is now locked.. not sure why anyone would be using an older version at this point