Author Topic: playing ff8 pc in a window (Read 4702 times)

themanwiththemachinegun · « **on:** 2004-12-09 22:15:19 »

hi,

does anybody know how to play FF8 not in full-screen but in a window? Is there some option you can choose in windows xp to make it do this? I have been playing all my games this way recently but don't know how to do it with ff8.

Creative Inc · « **Reply #1 on:** 2004-12-09 23:49:16 »

When you use the configuration utility, there should be an option to either play it in fullscreen or in windowed mode.

Aaron · « **Reply #2 on:** 2004-12-10 01:28:22 »

There is no option to play FF8 PC in a window in the config utility, nor is there any command-line switch that will do this AFAIK. Options would be patching the game somehow to run in a window (like the FF7 window patch -- no one does this for FF8 yet AFAIK) or using the PSX version and ePSXe.

themanwiththemachinegun · « **Reply #3 on:** 2004-12-15 15:29:06 »

thanks for the replies guys.

I found this thread on another forum: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/119550

I don't know if I want to do what he did though

themanwiththemachinegun · « **Reply #4 on:** 2004-12-16 00:14:41 »

I decided to try what the guy did in that forum. So I downloaded the trial version of Microsoft Virtual PC and installed windows 98 on it. I installed FF8 and I played it in a 640 x 480 window which was good. But this isn't the best way because virtual pc has an emulated graphics card so the game is a bit slow and in software mode only. shame...

Aaron · « **Reply #5 on:** 2004-12-16 03:25:06 »

1. Don't double-post please. (You can edit your previous post.)
2. I'm a big VPC user myself, and that's right, there's no way to use 3D acceleration from VPC. If your computer is fast enough, you'll get good performance anyway, but the textures will look bad and there's no way to use anything like FSAA.