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Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Chaotic on 2005-07-05 22:36:47

The Eidos screen doesn't even load, or when it does, it will not switch to the squarsoft one, the screen would stay dark.

I have a gforce 5200
windows XP
512 mg DDR RAM

I know there are patches out there, but none seem to work, I didn't bother about the horizontale lines, I changed something in the config and they were gone. What bother me is the fact that the game has been running smoothly for over 2 weeks, without any patches at all. This problem start today and I didn't change anything on my pc or in the game config.

Help?

Got the game in french btw.

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Penquin on 2005-07-05 22:40:21

Try a reinstall. Are there different patches for different language versions? If so, did you get the right language?

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Chaotic on 2005-07-05 22:41:37

I have reinstalled 3 times, and still the same thing is happening.

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: mad_shady on 2005-07-05 22:42:05

hahahahhhaahahhah

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Penquin on 2005-07-05 22:43:07

Quote from: mad_shady

hahahahhhaahahhah

Oh yes, that's really nice.


Are any of the CDs scratched?

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: mad_shady on 2005-07-05 22:43:42

lol wasn't me

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Penquin on 2005-07-05 22:44:52

Quote from: mad_shady

lol wasn't me

Let me guess. It was your freind/relative who got on the computer when you walked away.

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: mad_shady on 2005-07-05 22:46:24

no.......
my dog

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Qhimm on 2005-07-05 22:46:31

Behave or leave. You have been warned.

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Penquin on 2005-07-05 22:49:48

Just thought of this. Could it be a driver problem? You can get new drivers from www.ati.com or www.nvidia.com depending on what graphics card you have or for more advanced users www.omegadrivers.net.

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Chaotic on 2005-07-05 22:56:20

nope, not the drivers

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Chaotic on 2005-07-05 23:17:47

I installed the latest patch, and deleted the publish.pak file, which is the the eidos tittle screen. It works, I can play.

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: bulk_4me on 2005-07-06 01:29:56

Errr... Actually is eidos_logo.avi or something similar to that.

Title: FF8 Crashes in opening titles
Post by: Aaron on 2005-07-06 01:54:58

Actually, in FF8, the movies are stored in .pak files, not on the disc as AVIs.