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Title: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: purple.platypus on 2011-03-25 03:02:40

Does anyone know if the Windows 7 SP that came out this week changes anything that's relevant to running FF7?

I have been playing FF7 with a bunch of mods (Aali's driver, PRP, Avalanche, Reasonable Difficulty, FF7music, possibly one or two others I'm forgetting), and it worked fine until now. But tonight it's just refusing to open for me. There is no error message, it just opens and immediately closes.

I can't think of anything potentially relevant that's changed since I last successfully ran it except for routine updates, most obviously the aforementioned service pack.

(EDIT: I realized I also installed a bunch of Windows Live crap I'll probably never use anyway. But I uninstalled it and it made no difference.)

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: sl1982 on 2011-03-25 03:06:44

Runn FF7config again and reset your sound driver. That may help.

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: purple.platypus on 2011-03-25 03:22:22

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help. Same result, or glaring lack thereof, as before  :-P.

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: sl1982 on 2011-03-25 03:26:45

Can i see the contents of your app.log?

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: purple.platypus on 2011-03-25 04:13:56

Sure, no problem, and thanks for being willing to have a look at it.

Quote from: app.log

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.9b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 5670 4.1.10524 Compatibility Profile Context
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1024x768, output resolution 1024x768, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Shader limits: varying 128, vert uniform 16384, frag uniform 16384
INFO: vertex shader compile log: Vertex shader was successfully compiled to run on hardware.

INFO: fragment shader compile log: Fragment shader was successfully compiled to run on hardware.

INFO: main program link log: Vertex shader(s) linked, fragment shader(s) linked.

INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: sl1982 on 2011-03-25 04:16:00

Yup its a sound problem. Go to the sound tab in FF7 config and try changing to a different audio device.

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: purple.platypus on 2011-03-25 04:17:02

I've tried both the options it gives me there, neither works. (It was, however, blank when this process started.)

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: sl1982 on 2011-03-25 04:37:18

perhaps try a reboot and then run the config again, make sure you run as administrator. other then that i do not know how to fix your problem, even though i know what it is.

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: purple.platypus on 2011-03-25 06:44:06

That did it! Running as admin seemed to work, enabling the change to the sound settings to stick, which I guess it wasn't doing before.

Title: Re: FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1
Post by: yarLson on 2011-03-25 18:44:27

dude service pack 1 has been out for quite some time. just fyi haha  :P