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Title: FF7 - blackscreen , then ctd at startup
Post by: Hybris on 2010-01-28 13:35:33

Hey,

I just installed FF7 on my notebook. then i run the 1.02 patch and the the truemotion codec.
the ff7 configurator is set to nvidia tnt.

thought i had everything i need, but whenver i start ff7 the screen just gets black for a few seconds and than it went back to windows without an error warning or anything. :-(

hope you guys can help me. :-)

edit: sorry, i forgot to mention: im using windows vista/32bit

Title: Re: FF7 - blackscreen , then ctd at startup
Post by: Cupcake on 2010-01-28 20:15:58

Try installing aali's driver

Title: Re: FF7 - blackscreen , then ctd at startup
Post by: Hybris on 2010-01-28 20:19:55

thx for your answer. :-)

i did but nothing changed :-(

APP.log is empty so no inf on the ctd -.-

Title: Re: FF7 - blackscreen , then ctd at startup
Post by: titeguy3 on 2010-01-28 23:29:32

Quote from: Hybris on 2010-01-28 20:19:55

thx for your answer. :-)

i did but nothing changed :-(

APP.log is empty so no inf on the ctd -.-

that whole crashing issue is sometimes a result of trying to run the game at an invalid resolution.
Download Ficedula's FF7Music utility, and run it at the same time as FF7. It'll have all the debug info in the console. Copy and paste that here using the

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Title: Re: FF7 - blackscreen , then ctd at startup
Post by: Hybris on 2010-01-29 12:36:07

its working now, my patch was in the wrong language. stupid i know.

nervertheless thanks for your help guys! :-)