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Title: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-06 08:28:53

I'm having some graphic issues with FF7. This issues happen both with FF7w and running FF7 normally. Basically, in cinematics I get a thick black line in the right side through it, in game the character and save point is black, and in the menu instead of being blue and white, there's black. Also, in game I have all these random lines (squares). Can anyone help with this please?

Edit: I have fixed the black characters but I am yet to be able to fix the cinematic problems

(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9039/blacklinesthroughcinema.png) - Still unresolved
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3180/gameqz.png) - Fixed
(http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8020/menuem.png) - Fixed

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Kudistos Megistos on 2009-09-06 16:34:49

What patches are you using?

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Matt2Tees on 2009-09-06 21:10:12

This is your graphic's card, maybe change the nvidia tnt or riva option in your ff7config?

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: titeguy3 on 2009-09-06 22:55:27

It almost looks like you're trying to emulate a windows game on linux or something...

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-07 06:10:22

Using official 1.02 and FF7w and I'm using Windows XP

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: titeguy3 on 2009-09-07 07:32:09

Try downloading Aali's driver (http://backup.ninjaloot.se/share/ff7_opengl-0.7.1b.zip), it might be more compatible with your card.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-07 08:19:49

yeah i had the same grid line problem and Aali driver fix that problem you should really give it a try

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Harruzame on 2009-09-08 05:56:59

Kinda looks like " FFVII: The Doomsday "  :lol:

Aalis gonna be pissed if you're still not gonna use his Driver ... :x






hehehe Just Kidding! :lol:

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-09 12:41:09

The cinematics are still the same but the grid lines are fixed. Any more ideas guys?

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-09 20:58:54

Whats the highest res that your computer can display?

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-10 08:10:02

1280x1024

Just to recap the problem, I'm having a thick black line in cinematics (first picture) and this only happens when I play it in windowed mode.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-10 08:22:09

So you are no longer have the grid lines while playing or you still have them?

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-10 12:49:19

No longer have grid lines.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-10 20:27:01

Ok so you running Aali driver is that what fixed that?

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-11 05:51:41

Nah it was fixed when I updated my graphics card (Nvidia 8600GT) driver to the latest version.

I'm only having one issue at the moment which is the cinematic issue (half of cinematic covered by black box) and this only seems to happen while in windowed mode (running with ff7w)

This is my config: (http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5619/configd.png) (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/configd.png/)

I've tried using Riva 128 and also unclicking Nvidia with no success.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Harruzame on 2009-09-11 06:29:26

Then why don't you tinker with the resolution size?... Or don't just use the windowed mode..its much easier..

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-11 09:41:13

I would say try aali driver but i dont know if that will help with your problem. What kinda video codec do you have

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-11 13:57:20

Using K-Lite Full Codec Pack with Truemotion disabled.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-11 19:08:59

Quote from: Jehebi on 2009-09-11 13:57:20

Using K-Lite Full Codec Pack with Truemotion disabled.

Ah try enabling ture motion and running it with that codec im pretty sure that will fix it.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Prince Lex on 2009-09-12 01:08:26

The cinematic thing is because your desktop has to be in 16-bit colour mode to display these correctly. Problem solved.

If you want to fix this without having your pretty windows Aero disappearing before your very eyes, use Aali's driver!

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-12 03:25:28

Thankyou very much guys, fixed it now :)

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-12 03:34:11

Just curious what was the solution to your problem

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-12 03:49:57

Use 16bit colour mode or Aali's driver.

But I just found another problem, when I play the game it looks like this now:

(http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9669/windowissues.png) (http://img7.imageshack.us/i/windowissues.png/)


Theres a huge region of black to the upper and right side of the game.

Or, if I don't use ff7w, opening ff7.exe causes my desktop resolution to shrink to the lowest setting.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-12 05:40:13

Do you have a wide screen

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Jehebi on 2009-09-12 06:20:57

Nope just normal screen with 1280x1024 resolution.

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Costa07 on 2009-09-12 07:49:59

Hmm interesting never incountered that before maybe you out to post in the Aali drivers thread about your problem maybe some one there can help you with that

Title: Re: Black Character and Object Sprites, Black lines in cinematics (FF7)
Post by: Matt2Tees on 2009-09-15 02:43:19

Don't use ff7w uninstall / remove it  :-o, use Aali's driver instead: copy the ff7_opengl.cfg to the desktop and open it in notepad (it's part of Aali's driver), scroll down to resolution and set the resolution to a square resolution, then where it says full screen= yes, change yes to no and save the cfg and put in back into your ff7 directory. Make sure you run ff7.exe as an admin and your problems should be solved.

Also remember that once Aali's driver is running don't open your ff7config file as it disables the driver and will use the original driver again