It doesn't matter if you have got the patch or not, the Chocobo race WON'T work on Windows XP, but I have found a solution to this problem: look at my post on 'Frequently Asked Questions' then 'Chocobo races working under Windows XP'.
It explains how to get FF7 working with Windows 2000/XP, but if that doesn't work, try downloading this patch:
http://www.qhimm.com/ff7_chocobo_patch.zipAll you have to do is unzip this to your FF7 folder, and double-click the patch's exe.
I hope you can understand my English, since you said that you don't seem to be too great at it.
- PS: The French version of the 1.02 NVidia patch, is located here:
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/gss/legacy/ff7/ff7_tnt.zipIt's pretty big, since it does have the French version of the patch, along with a few more diffrent languages.