Lex, would you mind posting hardware specs? may help, i can't fathom that any PC in the modern era couldn't play FF7 lagless. But who knows
Irrelevant, there is no lag at all. The music simply begins later than it should, on (I'm assuming) everyone's version of FF7 PC. As is in the original post, the PSX version starts the music immediately when the materia hits the ground.
EDIT: I just re read that and it sounds a bit rude, so I'm sorry if it read that way to you lol. I have a laptop and a desktop, and since lurking here in 2002-3 I've had it installed on 9 seperate "rigs". The "music delay" happened on every one.
My current install is on my desktop.
Intel Core I7
Nvidia GTX 550i
8GB RAM
250gb SSD
Again, 9 different computers, so I'm pretty damn positive the problem is somewhere in the game and not with all 9 computers! Hahaha.
EDIT 2: Not that it matters, but I've had 2 different copies of FFVII over the period of those 9 computers, I lost my original years ago and got another recently.