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Title: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Ultimate on 2007-08-01 01:50:03

Hi... I just recently installed Final Fantasy VIII on my Windows Vista Ultimate processor... It seems that whenever I load my Final Fantasy VIII, it just shows a black screen and I cannot exit... Then I tried installing it on my old XP computer and it works completely fine... And I didn't install any patches either. Theres a link below linking to the new computer I have. So is there a way that I could run my Final Fantasy VIII on my Vista?

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10086549&catid=20217

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Aaron on 2007-08-01 14:14:47

Did you try the upside-down movie patch?  (See the FAQ.)

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Ultimate on 2007-08-01 19:05:27

Does the patch exist for Final Fantasy VIII? I think its only for VII... Well anyways I got it working messing around with the configs..
Well now there is 2 problems...

1. For some reason when I play FMVS there appears to be a black screen flashing quickly once in a while like when its playing the intro you could see a frame that is black and returns back to the movie repeatatively.. 

2. There are some black squares on my game... I also did install the GeForce Patch... Heres a screen shot of what I'm talking about...
(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/954/ffprobkj8.png)

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Mattie on 2007-08-01 19:23:02

How did you manage to get it working? I can't get my final fantasy VIII working on my Vista machine :/ I have the same problem that you had. Final Fantasy VII works great though! Thanks, Mattie.

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Aaron on 2007-08-01 20:49:50

Ha, nevermind, I got the roman numerals all jarbled up in my head.  Apologies.  :-P

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Ultimate on 2007-08-01 22:44:57

Wow lol... Some how I got rid of the black blobs/spots/pallets/tiles! =D but thats not it......
The black blinking issue is still here... And now it blinks even when its not during the FMVs...
Something really funny occurred during my googling.... People say Hardware Acceleration had better graphics than the Software Renderer... I believe it..
Software
(http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=softve9.png)
Hardware
(http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harddq2.png)

@Matte
I just messed around configing things...

@Aaron lol some times here too :P

Now I need to get rid of the blinkin issue...


EDIT:
IN THE BEGINNING
http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ffprobzs6.png

SOFTWARE RENDERER
http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=softve9.png

HARDWARE ACCELERATOR
http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harddq2.png

IN THE END
http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finalkh8.png

EVERYTHING IS BACK TO NORMAL FOR ME MUAHAHAHAUUA

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Jenovo on 2007-08-07 23:12:06

Ultimate how did you this work without black boxes in your screen ? i'm interested

Mod Edit (SB): Please do not quote a giant post just to add one sentence.

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Fatchoco on 2007-09-01 15:27:47

It've a big difference between 2 mode
Check it when it's in map.

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Talix on 2007-12-18 04:42:45

I have the same problem as the topic starter, but I have vista home Basic.
I played FF7 without any problem, except the few crashes, like at the date.

So I am wondering, how do I fix this?

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VIII
Post by: Mattie on 2007-12-18 11:25:03

I just installed FFVIII, downloaded the FFVIII Official Patch and overwrited the files. Then created a new folder called "Game" in my FFVIII folder. Cut & Pasted ff8.exe and binkw32.dll into the Game folder. Then just booted up the game and it worked.

Not sure whether it works for everyone but it did it for me! :lol:

Mattie