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FF8 - Making the game look better with the software renderer?

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Ash:
So, I have a GeForce 8600M GT, and unless I feel like playing Black Boxes Fantasy VIII, I'm stuck with playing FF8 with the software renderer (the 1.2 patch and FF8Launcher didn't resolve the boxes problem for me).

Now, we all know how ugly the game looks when played with the SR. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to make it look better in that mode. I'm not expecting super High-def graphics, of course, but I don't know, something on par with PSX graphics or better?

I can probably tolerate to play the game with ugly graphics, but really, if there's a way to make it look better, even a little, I would really appreciate if some of you showed me how.

Prince Lex:
If you want to get rid of the boxes problem, you either need to turn off AA/AF in your graphics driver settings, or switch to Aali's custom graphics driver, which allows for more customisation than the launcher.

Ash:
Turning off AA/AF did absolutely nothing. As for Aali's custom graphics, I tried that too. I didn't understand the options it gave me since I'm pretty much a noob for this kind of thing, it wasn't clear what files concerned FF7 and what concerned FF8, and anyway, I got an error message when trying to start FF8.exe, so no thanks.

Honestly, I've searched the forums for hours and I've yet to see a GeForce user getting his "black boxes" problem solved. That's why I'm asking for a way to improve the graphics using the software renderer. My patience has limits...

Prince Lex:
It's really not that hard to use Aali's driver, and it's the best bet to solve your problem. All you have to do is put it in your FF8 folder, open the ff8_opengl.cfg by right-clicking and opening in notepad and change the settings to suit you. You have to put all the files (including the ones that say FF7) in your FF8 folder.

I used to spend fruitless hours and frustration trying to get both FF7 and FF8 to work.

Did you use this step-by-step guide when you installed the game? That's what I did the first time I installed it, I usually don't have any problems with FF8. Remember that there are two different .exe's (one GeForce and one non-GeForce) to use also.

Ash:
Well, more or less. I installed the GeForce patch, of course, and Samuel's Soundfont, but that's about it. Before trying to make the game smooth and shiny, I'll try to find a way to make the black blocks disappear. But that's the problem: based on the replies in the "FF8 Enhancing" thread and my own tests, there is no way to get rid of them for Nvidia users. FF8Launcher seems to work for some, strangely, but not for me and many others.

As for Aali's driver, it's not how to use it that I don't understand, but the different settings that I can modify in ff8_opengl.cfg. I don't get how any of them could get rid of the black blocks, and even then, last time I couldn't even test them because of an error message I would get when trying to activate FF8.exe.

Of course, I *could* try that again, but I probably won't because reinstalling is a pain and, as far as I know, no Nvidia user fixed his problem using it. 

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