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Title: Upside down movie question
Post by: Myria kitty on 2008-01-04 05:43:14

What is the technical reason behind the upside-down movie problem?  It happens on my machine, but only when I load FF7 in a nonstandard way with debug hooks installed.  Running FF7 1.02 the normal way works with correctly oriented movies.  (This is in this forum since it's not a technical support issue; I can play the game fine.)

I'm thinking that the movie fix might be an application compatibility (appcompat) fix Microsoft added, since appcompat wouldn't recognize FF7 the way I'm loading it.

Title: Re: Upside down movie question
Post by: Myria kitty on 2008-01-05 21:18:49

Yep, I've just proven that it's an appcompat issue.  ff7.exe is listed within C:\WINDOWS\AppPath\sysmain.sdb.

If you make a second copy of ff7.exe as a different name (I used ff7blah.exe), it will play the movies upside down.  Windows itself is hacking FF7 to display them properly.