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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-25 13:29:55 »

I am afraid to say, I have already tried that, I have tested my RAM, HDD, and done torture tests on my CPU and GPU.
They passed all the tests I could throw at them. My computer appears to be running in perfect condition.
Another test I tried was over clocking, and under clocking my CPU and GPU. That made no difference.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-24 13:46:40 »

Tried with and without, doesn't change the errors.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-17 09:25:53 »

I couldn't agree more, I want to play this on the PC with the mods. But until I can work out what is causing it to play up I am stuck :/

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-17 08:20:49 »

It didn't work. I have basically given up on trying to install the PC version I guess un-modded FF8 will have to do on the PS3.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-12 12:08:48 »

i dont think that the OS is the problem cause im using win7 64x aswell and ff8 works just fine..
is there any other application failling to install or run?  also try checking ALL ur drivers + run a scan with anti-virus/anti spyware application and see if it picks anything.. if nothing works u should consider re-installing windows even tho u need to backup alot of stuff.. cause that's not a ff8 problem it seems... its most likely something messed on ur windows

Every driver is updated, I have tried to re-install windows twice now. None of my hardware is faulty. I have even paid a computer tech (I went to uni to study it myself as well but a second opinion never hurts) he couldn't find anything wrong with my computer, or any drivers out of date, he was actually surprised that my bios is up to date since most people neglect that.

And as I said, I haven't ever had a problem with programs installing or running before.

I am speaking to a friend and thinking of buying his old gaming computer and seeing if perhaps that will solve the problem. Just need to set it up to share the mouse and keyboard (separate monitor) to save my desk space.

Finally, my computer is actually virus and adware free. A rather hard task, but when it runs 3 times a day it can actually stay on top of it.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-11 01:01:34 »

I have never had a problem with any other program.
Just checked all my drivers, every single one of them was up to date except the MS software (made no difference).

I ran the anti-spyware and anti-virus. Computer came back clean, tried afterwards, still nothing

I guess I need to buy some external HDD and attempt to move 1.8TB of work onto them. Think it will take a few days though.

EDIT:
Now I know my computer hates me. After backing up everything, reinstalling windows and my programs it, including FF8 . I still get the same problem with FF8. No problems with anything else though.\

EDIT2:
Tried it all again, unless someone has another solution I will have to buy an old computer and just run it off that. Seems kind of wasteful to me but I really want to play this game on the PC.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 15:36:27 »

It wont let you run the hardware render in the Virtual PC.
The shaders are all there. I am even trying a third install, with everything from the setup CD being extracted, still no luck.

I think its time to go bed and sleep on this problem (Australian lol)

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 14:52:55 »

In the Virtual PC it just crashes to desktop after showing a black screen. I have tried to disable all my sound devices (HDMI, Digital Audio, and the Analog Audio drivers).
http://i55.tinypic.com/2cdvgub.png  - this is the error that comes up, finally managed to get a print screen of it.

It is installed in program files. I try to run it as administrator every second time (I try atleast twice for opening it).

When I try open FF8Config after disabling my sound devices it just freezes then windows closes it. Though if you can tell me how to disable EAX via the FF8Config itd be a great help. I cant see an option for it anywhere.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 14:40:13 »

Not really I am afraid.

I have alot of work on here that would take me a very very long time to back up.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 14:30:20 »

First thing I done...mainly because it was the first thing to open. But ill try again, hopefully I just had a massive stupid moment.

EDIT:
Sadly it was all set up correctly. I tried all 3 options I had, no luck. Still the exact same error report.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 14:21:44 »

Can't get a screenshot of the error box, but heres the app log.

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF8 1.2 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series 4.1.10750 Compatibility Profile Context
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: Shader limits: varying 128, vert uniform 16384, frag uniform 16384
ERROR: failed to stat file /shaders/nolight/main.vert
ERROR: failed to load shaders, reverting to fixed function
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZING SOUND...
  initializing direct sound
  EAXDirectSoundCreate
After this it will just hang, and unless I get lucky and get my mouse back it means a restart.
Starting to feel bad for having all these problems and pestering you, and the forums, about them.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 14:13:38 »

I have his mod in the FF8 folder. I tried his EAX, didnt work, tried the xp one. Lets just say my computer didn't like it, but that't progress.

It tried to boot up, and gave me more errors then I could keep up with. Your ideas are helping immensely btw. I can't tell you how happy I am that I had to restart my computer (only because it means at most I am a few lines of coding away from being able to play)

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 14:02:15 »

My brain keeps hurting from this,

I have tried to patch it, the EAXUnified doesn't add the EAX.dll which I seem to require. I am trying to pull it apart now with the Universal Extractor, not liking my chances on that. It seems this game doesn't get along with Win7 64bit lol.

By the way, thank you for being such a big help so far. Your input has helped me so far, I would try your ideas, give my computer funny looks then work on another idea that was related to yours, hence the XP virtual PC.

Note:
The EAXUnified appears to be doing the same as the installer the first time. I guess I can try it on the XP Virtual PC again. See what I can manage.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 12:52:24 »

I will try that, I have downloaded windows Virtual PC and seeing if running the XP Virtulisation will help. I really hope so otherwise I need to chase down reg files......yay

Will keep you informed via an edit (so I dont double post)


EDIT:
It seems I just can't win, I ran the XP Virtual PC. Got it installed, further then I have ever got! Tried to run it, crashes to desktop.....
Copy it over to the actual OS. Now it seems EAX.dll hates me. Who would of guessed it'd be so much work to play this game.

Hopefully final EDIT:
I tried to extract the SETUP, this is the report I get after it fails to extract (provides no information at all sadly)

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TrID/32 - File Identifier v2.02 - (C) 2003-06 By M.Pontello
Definitions found:  2641
Analyzing...

Collecting data from file: E:\SETUP.EXE
 36.4% (.EXE) InstallShield setup (43050/17/16)
 31.9% (.EXE) Win32 Executable MS Visual C++ (generic) (37706/45/16)
 11.0% (.SCR) Windows Screen Saver (13105/51/3)
  8.9% (.EXE) Win32 Executable Generic (10527/13/4)
  6.4% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (7600/42/2)

I am running out of ideas. At this rate I am going to have to stick to the PSX version and I really want to be able to use atleast Aali's custom graphics mod.

Note: I tried extracting Aali's mod into the install folder to add the EAX.dll, even put it in system 32.......no luck there either now it just comes up with it missing

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 11:18:01 »

Sadly no luck.
Tried copying the Installation CD onto my HDD, didnt work. Even tried that setup.exe and it didnt work

I guess it means I may have to buy another FF8 on my next pay.

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 09:16:37 »

I have tried that, it wont let me install anything under safe-mode.

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Troubleshooting / FF8 PC not installing

« on: 2011-07-10 07:39:38 »

After much searching I found this wonderful site, and needless to say it made me play my PSN version of FF8. While looking for a legit version of the PC FF8 I got hooked.

Now I have a problem, it seems my scratch free FF8 (PC) wont install. It arrived yesterday and I have been trying since.
I put in the CD, auto-run pops up I click install....nothing.
I open the CD and run the setup....nothing.
I change the capatibility (tried every possible option) and add administrator privileges......nothing.
I have also done all of the above after making an ISO (CloneDVD, GamejacklePRO, deamon tools)

I check the task manager and it has a nice selection of SETUP*32.exe that wont progress beyond the 2,596kb mark (approx thats the highest it has got, but most rarely make it that far).

I have also tried something this site doesn't condone which was torrents (all of them have been deleted now). And it resulted in the same thing.

I don't want to have to use the PSX (have the original CDs of them still too, and the PSN version on my PS3 and PSP) version as I had to pay $187 AUS for my FF8 (PC) and I want to use it, and some mods.

Can anyone help.

Specs are as follows:
Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
Q6600 Quad Core Processor
4Gb DDR3 RAM (2x 2GB sticks)
Radeon 5770 HD 1GB


EDIT:
Yes I paid $187 for it, it was sealed in its original box. So I thought I would be safe.