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Title: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: Skye on 2008-07-22 01:58:22

Hey all I finally managed to get FFVII working on XP SP3 after many different combinations of patches.

This is what I have installed to get it to its current (mostly) working state:

- The official 1.2 patch
- The SaiNt's High Res FF7PC Patch v1.00  (with integrated Jedwin's chocobo patch)
- YAMP (fixed my crashing problems)
- NPC Reconstruction Project for FF7PC 0.6 mod

Now it is finally stable, but Cloud and other active objects appear like this:

(http://i33.tinypic.com/zjar6d.png)

(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8859/ff7pcprob2af5.png)

My specs:
XP SP3
Core 2 Quad Processor Q9450 @2.66GHz
2x GeForce 8800M GTX (SLi)
4GB RAM

Any help is greatly appreciated, cheers!

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: autrui on 2008-07-22 03:50:48

Ahhhh!  I'm not the only one with this problem then!  Seems to be a number of posts, with no solutions...  Anyone have any ideas of what direction to go in?

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: dziugo on 2008-07-22 04:46:42

"Pretty good" config you got there :P You might want to try some older GPU drivers - the thing is, it could be that there are no old enough drivers for your GPU(s).

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: Trigr2006 on 2008-07-22 09:35:57

Yep to fix it, you need to dual boot with Windows Vista or just use Windows Vista. :-(

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: Skye on 2008-07-22 16:01:42

Sure there's no way to get it working in XP? I installed XP on my Vista system (as a dualboot) because I couldn't even get it to this stage on Vista!

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: nscreated on 2008-07-22 18:04:58

Vista has audio problems, but there are workarounds.

The culprit in your case is your GF8 card. There are a few threads here that talk about this. GF8 + WinXP + FFVII = lots of black all over the place.

I would install Vista if I could (it really is a fabulous OS; most if not all of the major criticisms have been dealt with or have workarounds) but I don't want to pay the money.

You can use software rendering, or buy a GF4 MX440 PCI card from eBay for $25.

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: Skye on 2008-07-24 06:25:51

That'd be a bit hard as I'm on a laptop. Is there no way to fix it with RivaTuner?

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: Trigr2006 on 2008-07-31 23:07:40

Quote from: Skye on 2008-07-24 06:25:51

That'd be a bit hard as I'm on a laptop. Is there no way to fix it with RivaTuner?

I'm afraid not, it's something to do with the actual graphics drivers for windows xp.

Title: Re: Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)
Post by: Trigr2006 on 2008-08-01 12:34:18

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=7795.0 <- Heres how to fix the Black Characters Problem