Steam FF7 crashes when I launch through 7th Heaven

[Tevildo]

Greetings and good day!

So I've been wanting to play FF7 modded, and with the new 2.0 of 7H (Which, congratulations on and thank you) I'd thought to give it a try. So I installed it, got four graphical mods (Battle/Field/World Models, Animations) and booted in. However, when starting the game, its just a black screen and a window pops out saying "The Game Driver has crashed!" and the window does not respond so I have to close it off.

I have tried reinstalling both 7H and FF7, using mods one by one and none at all, but nothing works. Starting FF7 by conventional means does work, however. When fiddling around with the settings of 7H, I changed the option of using the 7H Driver to the other two options, which work fine. So, to me it might just be the custom driver 7H is running.

For reference, my graphics card is an ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2300.

I don't know if its a problem with my machine or my graphics card (I wouldn't be surprised), but any help is appreciated! I have searched around this forum for an answer but I haven't found something to fix it yet, I'm not sure if I missed something though.

Here is the APP.LOG

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[00000000] INFO: Custom 7th Heaven FF7 Game Driver version 1.0.0.4
[00000000] TRACE: v1: 0x99CE0805, v2: 0xAC0D8B00
[00000000] INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
[00000000] TRACE: *** Exception 0xc0000005, address 0x5cbe4173 ***
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at DrvPresentBuffers, address 0x5cbd90b0
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at atiPS, address 0x5d5486e0
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at atiPS, address 0x5d5486e0
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at atiPS, address 0x5d5486e0
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at DrvPresentBuffers, address 0x5cbd90b0
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at DrvPresentBuffers, address 0x5cbd90b0
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at DrvPresentBuffers, address 0x5cbd90b0
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at DrvSwapBuffers, address 0x5cbb8680
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\atioglxx.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at DrvValidateVersion, address 0x5cbb7c50
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at wglSwapMultipleBuffers, address 0x5e17a2ad
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at wglSwapMultipleBuffers, address 0x5e17a2ad
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at wglSwapMultipleBuffers, address 0x5e17a2ad
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at wglGetProcAddress, address 0x5e17c245
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at wglGetPixelFormat, address 0x5e1855e8
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at wglDescribePixelFormat, address 0x5e185d32
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\system32\OPENGL32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at wglChoosePixelFormat, address 0x5e18651b
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\syswow64\GDI32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at ChoosePixelFormat, address 0x75785e17
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\7H_GameDriver.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at new_dll_graphics_driver, address 0x10115910
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\FF7.exe
[00000000] TRACE:    at new_dll_graphics_driver, address 0x10115910
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\FF7.exe
[00000000] TRACE:    at new_dll_graphics_driver, address 0x10115910
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\FF7.exe
[00000000] TRACE:    at new_dll_graphics_driver, address 0x10115910
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\FF7.exe
[00000000] TRACE:    at new_dll_graphics_driver, address 0x10115910
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\FF7.exe
[00000000] TRACE:    at new_dll_graphics_driver, address 0x10115910
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\syswow64\kernel32.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at BaseThreadInitThunk, address 0x76a0342b
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at RtlInitializeExceptionChain, address 0x7772979f
[00000000] TRACE: in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
[00000000] TRACE:    at RtlInitializeExceptionChain, address 0x7772979f
[00000000] ERROR: Unhandled Exception.

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Any time you experience crashing, the first thing you should do is run the game without mods to determine if a mod is causing a problem. Many have said the Animations mod causes problems for them, I'd start there. Also, since you have an ATI/AMD card, check to make sure you have PBO turned off in Settings>Game Driver as it is pretty unstable, particularly on ATI/AMD cards. Shaders (post-processing) can also cause problems.