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Got the game to play: yes! However, the patch for the music doesn't work. Every time I run it, it says "The system cannot find the file C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Final Fantasy VII\FF7Music\FF7MUSIC.ini" I've looked around for an FF7MUSIC.ini file, but there doesn't seem to be one available for download. What happens now?
Then I followed the first step which was:
"Step 1: Read, download, and run the latest version of FF7 Game Converter."
I ran the game converter exe as "Run as administrator" by right clicking the exe and clicking that option.
The command line interface (CMD) window runs and prints out my windows OS version and it's bit type, which is windows 7 64-bit.
It shows where it found a reference to the FF7 installation, but since I reinstalled FF7 from the seam default directory (C:\Program Files\Steam\...) to the current "G:\" drive I installed it to, the Game Converter prints out the old directory is the place where FF7 is installed.
I inputted "G:\Games\SteamApps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII" as the location since that's what the Game Converter prompt tells me to do if the tool does not find the correct FF7 installation directory.
The CMD window just hangs, since it looked like it was doing nothing for a long time, I let the Game Converter do its thing overnight...
... and when I came back to the PC the CMD window just had a prompt that said: "Removed CompatFlags from "ff7config.exe"" over and over with a question prompt of "REG DELETE Y/N?" right after the previous message, but I couldn't type in the CMD window at all. I decided to kill the process by pressing "ctrl+c".
I tried the Game Converter as my user account, and not administrator. Same symptoms as described above happens.
I tried entering "G:\Games\SteamApps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII" without the quotation marks, still the same behavior.
I notice that while the Game Converter is running, a "find.exe" process is running, I assume this is searching for FF7 installation files and registry keys and might be the cause of my problem due to my odd PC setup (more than the normal HDD of common PC setup).
I also notice that the Game Converter will output "can't access directory", but that's because its trying to access the directory of "System Volume Information" for each drive, and is a hidden protected directory.
I forgot to take out the part about having to move the Steam folder, sorry! We updated the Game Converter to move your game to your main HDD (C:\Games\FF7) if it's located in a system folder. Your C: drive is an SSD with only 30GB free, which it needs about that much after the game is installed. You may want to free up a couple more GB on it just in case.
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if %processor_architecture%==AMD64 (
%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\cmd exe /c %0
goto:eof
)
....
Does Steam store the path in the registry as well? I suppose it must store a base path to Steam itself, I can search there too.
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SET "RegKey_Steam=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140"
SET "RegKey_Re=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{141B8BA9-BFFD-4635-AF64-078E31010EC3}_is1"
SET newValue=InstallLocation
...
respectively without "Wow6432Node" on 32 bit OS@ECHO off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
IF %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% == x86 (
SET "RegKey_Steam=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140"
SET "RegKey_Re=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{141B8BA9-BFFD-4635-AF64-078E31010EC3}_is1"
SET "RegKey_Old=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII"
) ELSE (
SET "RegKey_Steam=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140"
SET "RegKey_Re=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{141B8BA9-BFFD-4635-AF64-078E31010EC3}_is1"
SET "RegKey_Old=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII"
)
SET fmt=audio.fmt
SET dat=audio.dat
SET target=sfx
REG QUERY "%RegKey_Old%" /v AppPath >NUL 2>&1
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 FOR /F "skip=2 tokens=2*" %%s in ('REG QUERY "%RegKey_Old%" /V AppPath') DO (
SET fmt=%%t\data\sound\!fmt!
SET dat=%%t\data\sound\!dat!
GOTO :continue
)
REG QUERY "%RegKey_Steam%" /v InstallLocation >NUL 2>&1
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 FOR /F "skip=2 tokens=2*" %%s in ('REG QUERY "%RegKey_Steam%" /V InstallLocation') DO (
SET fmt=%%t\data\sound\!fmt!
SET dat=%%t\data\sound\!dat!
GOTO :continue
)
REG QUERY "%RegKey_Re%" /v InstallLocation >NUL 2>&1
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 FOR /F "skip=2 tokens=2*" %%s in ('REG QUERY "%RegKey_Re%" /V InstallLocation') DO (
SET fmt=%%t\data\sound\!fmt!
SET dat=%%t\data\sound\!dat!
GOTO :continue
)
ECHO Using files in local folder
:continue
md %target% >nul 2>&1
choice /c dp /n /m "[d]ump or [p]ack?"
if ERRORLEVEL 2 sfxpack "%fmt%" "%dat%" %target% && GOTO :EOF
sfxdump "%fmt%" "%dat%" %target%
No, you aren't hard to understand, you just come off as an arrogant asshat.
I downloaded the updated openGL registry and ran it in my FF7 file folder. I ran FF7 config, and switched the RIVA 128 to TNT, but to do that I had to check the NVIDIA box. All sound still works, but I still can get the opening video to play, let alone anything after the first menu. The driver is the Direct 3D driver. All settings in my openGL are the same.