Two crashes

[Halp]

The first crash:
With only the ff7 1.02 official patch, laptop keypad patch, and some YAMP's patches (the 9999 limitbreaking and minigame/snowboarding patch), I can play the game up to where the train stops. After that, during the first battle in the whole game, it always crashes usually as soon as the first enemy uses its machine gun type weapon.

The second crash:
After some searching, I tried to play again with only the ff7 1.02 official patch, aali's custom driver thing, and laptop keypad patch. I crash even sooner, more specifically, whenever I press Enter. After the Eido (misspelling) logo passes and I press Enter to get to the New Game screen (if I don't it just moves on to credits or something), the game immediately crashes.

Help anyone? Much appreciated.  

[sithlord48]

what version of the driver are you using, ? if its .7.7b you have to fill up your save slots to stop the crash.

what os/ is this on.

[Halp]

what version of the driver are you using, ? if its .7.7b you have to fill up your save slots to stop the crash.

what os/ is this on.

It's this one: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8306.msg133947#msg133947

So I guess it is the .7.7b; what do you mean by "fill up your save slots to stop the crash"?
Also, this is on Windows Vista.

[sithlord48]

copy your save game and paste it in the same folder keep renaming them untill you have
save00.ff7
save01.ff7
up till you get to
save09.ff7

[Halp]

Ok so I did that, it's still crashing whenever I press enter to get to the New Game screen at the start of the game.
I also just checked FF7Config, for custom driver, everything is Pass except 8-bit Paletted Textures which is at Fail at the very end on Required 3D Features for Direct3D. Is it possible that is what's causing this error and how can I fix it if so? Thanks.

Also, if it is not what's causing the error, what else can I do?
Thanks again.

[Goku7]

The Pass/Fail tests are for Direct3D only.  The Custom driver is using OpenGL, which is a totally different thing, and doesn't need 8-bit Paletted Textures support to work, so ignore the fail that you get there.

...Did you try running the game without the laptop keyboard patch, (i.e., a clean 1.02 exe?)

[Kranmer]

could you post your app.log from your FF7 folder after you get the crash.

[Halp]

The Pass/Fail tests are for Direct3D only.  The Custom driver is using OpenGL, which is a totally different thing, and doesn't need 8-bit Paletted Textures support to work, so ignore the fail that you get there.

...Did you try running the game without the laptop keyboard patch, (i.e., a clean 1.02 exe?)

Ah that's good to know. So I took out the laptop keyboard patch and it crashed sooner than earlier. It crashed as soon as I pressed ff7 and got to the black screen, didn't even show the first logo this time. So I put it back in and it crashes after the Eido (whatever spelling it is, the first logo) again.

could you post your app.log from your FF7 folder after you get the crash.

Where exactly is that? I can't seem to find it.

[titeguy3]

App.log is a file called APP.log in your "Final Fantasy VII" folder. you should be able to open it with notepad and it should tell exactly why the game is crashing. First though, make sure you've done the following things:

0) turn off User Account Control (if applicable)
1) download the 1.02 ff7.exe file and overwrite your old one with it
2) download the latest version of Aali's driver and extract it into your "Final Fantasy VII" folder. there's a version of ff7config.exe that comes with Aali's driver, make sure you use that one in place of the one that comes with the 1.02 patch
3) Open FF7Config, and make sure that "custom graphics driver" is selected under "renderer" under the "graphics" tab.
4) open "ff7_opengl.cfg" in your "Final Fantasy VII" folder with notepad and change the settings around to your liking, then save and close
5) Due to a bug in the latest version of Aali's driver, if you're missing one of your save files, the game will crash, so you have to copy Save00.sav or whatever it's called and paste it like 9 more times and rename it as is appropriate.

if you've definitely done all of this and it's still crashing, then show us what "APP.log" says and that should explain why.

[Halp]

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.7b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Intel Intel Cantiga 1.5.0 - Build 7.15.10.1502
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: G:\FF7\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save00.ff7

[obesebear]

ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save00.ff7

Fill up all of your save slots.  I'd suggest using http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8880.0

[sithlord48]

INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available

noticed that in there you might want to disable the opengl 2.0 shaders also in the cfg file (its towards the top of the file)

[Halp]

Thanks so much everyone; it works now!