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Title: Urgent Help FF8 Graphics Problem
Post by: Barewolf on 2006-02-21 19:07:40

Just bought Final Fantasy 8, Installed it etc. All the Video Scenes work fine, no problemd but soon as the Game starts the graphics are all blocky, kind of has black blocks around everything.

I am on XP SP 2, AMD Athalon 2.1ghz, 128Mb Nvidea G Force FX5200 Graphics

Does anyone know what i can do to solve this issue?  :weep:

Title: Re: Urgent Help FF8 Graphics Problem
Post by: -gone away- on 2006-02-21 19:19:39

Quote from: Barewolf

Does anyone know what i can do to solve this issue?  :weep:

Short Answer : Cannot currently be fixed.

see here
http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=5294
or here
http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=5239

Use the fucking search button next time... or at least read a few of the topic names. "seek and ye shall find" .

This questions starting to piss me off, you can probly tell this but im not in a very good mood today  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:

however this is the first time ive heard of it affecting the FX5200, so you may be lucky the 1.02 patch might fix it or different drivers might fix it.

Title: Urgent Help FF8 Graphics Problem
Post by: steven on 2006-02-21 20:08:38

try softwere rendering insted of hardware. I have the same thing happen to me and thats how I got it to work

specs
*amd athlon xp 1800+
*512 mb ram
*gforce 6600 gt (128)
*lots of hdd space :P

Title: Urgent Help FF8 Graphics Problem
Post by: Barewolf on 2006-02-21 20:45:50

Quote from: steven

try softwere rendering insted of hardware. I have the same thing happen to me and thats how I got it to work

specs
*amd athlon xp 1800+
*512 mb ram
*gforce 6600 gt (128)
*lots of hdd space :P

That worked cheers, does the world outside the city look blocky though or is it meant to look that way?  -_-

Title: Urgent Help FF8 Graphics Problem
Post by: steven on 2006-02-21 20:50:52

Quote from: Barewolf

Quote from: steven

try softwere rendering insted of hardware. I have the same thing happen to me and thats how I got it to work

specs
*amd athlon xp 1800+
*512 mb ram
*gforce 6600 gt (128)
*lots of hdd space :P

That worked cheers, does the world outside the city look blocky though or is it meant to look that way?  -_-

for me it looks a bit blocky so I guess thats the way it is.

Title: Urgent Help FF8 Graphics Problem
Post by: -gone away- on 2006-02-21 21:16:40

I dont think software mode should be counted as a viable fix, as by using software mode you are not using your video card which is what has the problem.

It is the metaphorical equivilant of cutting off your leg just because you have something wrong with it. It gets rid of one problem but in the long run causes more.