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Troubleshooting / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.10b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2011-04-17 10:09:59 »

your sure your getting the ff7 v 1.02 before installing the driver? sorry, just want to be 100 percent clear on that

Yes, that's what I'm doing.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.10b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2011-04-11 06:17:57 »

no you definitely want to update to 1.02 before installing the driver or it won't work. Just a quick question, when you install the game, are you doing a full install of it?

I will reinstall and try that to make sure I'm doing it right. I've been doing a full install every time, yes.

EDIT: Okay, did another fresh install, and I'm still getting the same problem.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.10b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2011-04-10 23:32:49 »

I did. I also tried two earlier versions of the driver, both of which gave me the same result.

I just realized I think I read your message wrong. Haha. Did you mean that updating to 1.02 before installing it causes problems?

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Troubleshooting / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.10b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2011-04-10 02:58:10 »

have you tried running it out of compatibility mode, its a long shot but maybe it will help.

Sure have. I've tried just about every different way to configure and run everything that I can think of, done 4 fresh installs now, all sorts of things. No idea what the problem could be.

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Troubleshooting / Re: HELP with Add-ons/Mods for FFVIII

« on: 2011-04-09 17:29:24 »

Please do, I kinda took it under my belt as my job to organize, but I'm very much burnt out from the moving, deleting, merging of thousands of posts

I typically find a certain pride in trying to help forums that I stay around for more than a day or two, I suppose. And graphically, or otherwise updating games from my childhood is certainly something I could get passionate about without too much effort. We'll see though. I still have some learning to do of my own, so as it stands now I'd probably need help with it.

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Troubleshooting / Re: HELP with Add-ons/Mods for FFVIII

« on: 2011-04-09 17:20:31 »

Anyone with the time and desire can do it.  Even guests can do it, AFAIK they are allowed to see every post here and I'm positive are also able to make posts.   It's just a boring, thankless, tedious task (see: being a moderator  )

Hmm, indeed, however being able to and actually having the desire and will to are two completely different things. I have been a moderator on a forum before so I somewhat understand you there. However I would hardly call something like this a thankless task. Even if people don't cheer in the streets you'll know that without that post their stay on the forums could be pretty short-lived, and if not short-lived, maybe somewhat unpleasant to start with.

There's some really amazing stuff on this forum, and it almost feels like a waste to not make it easy to navigate. Maybe if no one else gets around to it I will have to take a jab at it.

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Troubleshooting / Re: HELP with Add-ons/Mods for FFVIII

« on: 2011-04-09 17:14:07 »

Do feel free to browse through all of the threads on this forum, and then all of the posts in those threads finding the one little important nugget of information it contains.
I'll agree this isn't a friendly environment for new members, which I'm hoping will change...at least a little.

Like I said, if you want to dig through everything and make one big all encompassing helpful post, do it!  There's no reason I or anyone else should be the ones that HAVE to do it.

Oh I'm absolutely not saying that it has to be done, just that it's kind of odd to complain about people asking questions when it's almost all people can do unless they want to spend those hours upon hours. Some people don't really have a ton of free time, or will get frustrated way before they spend that amount of time.

Who else is going to do it besides an existing forum member? Nobody. See my point?

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Troubleshooting / Re: HELP with Add-ons/Mods for FFVIII

« on: 2011-04-09 16:56:22 »

You guys are only showing and proving the exact same attitude I just described.

Yes, I searched for more than 5 minutes, there's no need to be so condescending. And I'm not saying anything about how the forums are run, simply that since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to find everything you want, and the attitude shown when people ask questions is what it is, it's not really a great environment for new people to join. Treat people like they're stupid, and you're not going to get great responses. Also, it's pretty obvious to me that the people around here have had just a tiny bit longer than 3 hours to compile one or two threads, which is all it would take. But I'm pretty sure I could do it within a day or two, given enough work spent on it. Especially since the amount of time I described, half a day, is probably enough for most people to find what they want to find.

A person who has more knowledge already would be able to do this much faster. I don't really think that's a debatable point.

Besides, if you're annoyed by a post, no one is making you respond to it.

I'm not trying to come off like a jerk here. It's just that I can see things from the new guy's point of view, being pretty fresh to the scene myself, and I know that for me, I had to crawl around in the dark for a few hours before I even had a clue what I was doing. And that's while using the stickies/FAQs you mentioned. What we might be looking for is more of a general newbie's guide to modding FF7/8, with every bit of basic information and explanation needed. Most of this would probably require little to no revision over time, and make things much easier for people, not to mention save quite a bit of the "annoying" questioning.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.10b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2011-04-09 16:49:30 »

did you update to v1.02 before installing Aali's driver? that might be the issue, don't quote me on it though

I did. I also tried two earlier versions of the driver, both of which gave me the same result.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FFVII Install problem. Please help.

« on: 2011-04-09 13:17:40 »

The message is normal, and is not a sign of anything going wrong. What exactly do you mean by nothing happens? From what I remember, the game doesn't auto-launch when you insert the CD, you actually have to hit the shortcut and start it. Have you tried that?

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Troubleshooting / Re: HELP with Add-ons/Mods for FFVIII

« on: 2011-04-09 12:47:13 »

I have to admit that I agree with this guy. The environment is really kinda unfriendly and tight-assed (pardon my french) from what I've seen thus far. I've tried using the search function as well and had pretty much zero luck finding relevant posts. The general vibe given or sometimes straight out said is: figure it out yourself or go away. Seems a bit mean to me, especially when people typically aren't rude about asking. We're asking because we don't know what to do, and would rather get some help than roam the forums for half a day figuring it out. It's a ton of work.

And I'm not blaming people for not wanting to go through and find all the posts we need and give them to us, it would just make a lot more sense if there was some kind of organization to all of this so we wouldn't have to ask. In fact I'm rather shocked this hasn't already been done. Seems like a bit of a no-brainer.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Aali's driver [v 0.7.10b] Help/Bugs/Suggestions

« on: 2011-04-09 12:29:40 »

Hi there. I recently started trying to mod my FF7, and had a problem while trying to install this:

When using FF7config.exe to try and change from Software Rendering to the custom driver, as per the instructions, FF7config.exe crashes, with the message "FF7config.exe has stopped working"

Any ideas? I did some searching and found nothing on this. I tried running in administrator and still no dice. I'm using an original, disc-installed copy on Windows 7 64bit. I am running everything in compatibility for Windows XP SP2. My drivers are up to date, and I have attempted a reinstall 3 times now, with the last one being after I first did a system restore. So I'm at a loss as to what I should try next.