Greetings,
I'm trying to get an assist with this amazing mod
I've used it in the past on an old machine that is now long gone, had the urge to play through this game again, but I'm having some issues getting the game to run with the mod installed.
I started with bootloader 0039. Did the whole process, and each time I would run my game, I would get the Eidos logo, then the Square/Chocobo logo, and the opening credits. However, pressing ANY button would cause my game to crash. I repeatedly received an error:
Oops! Something very bad happened
Wrote crash.dmp to FF7 install dir.
Please provide a copy of it along with APP.LOG when reporting this error.
White emergency save to save/crash.ff7?
FF7.exe would also crash, end of story. I did numerous re-installations of the game and bootloader, but every time it kept doing this.
So I decided to start with a fresh install of the game, and start adding mods 1 by 1, testing for playability in between each mod. I installed the game (2012 re-release), used Kranmer's conversion mod, followed by the 1.02 patch, Aali's driver, FF7 Music, FMV restoration. Okay, up until this point, I'm good. Next I did the menu overhaul (don't recall exactly which options I chose) but this now caused my game to crash with the exact same error as before. I ran the mod again, chose to uninstall, and the game ran fine again.
Worth note, is that when I couldn't get this mod to work, I tried Team Avalanches mod. This, too, causes my game to crash. It seems to be something about loading anything from the Mods/DK/Menu folder. If there are any mods to the menu, the game just won't play. With the Team Avalanche mod, I could get the game to load, but if I opened up the menu in-game OR after any battle (at the EXP and Gil screen) the game would crash.
Another item is that my "Security Essentials" picks up a file each time I load the game and quarantines it. To be sure it was safe, I looked at the file in question and it is called: HackTool:Win32/Keygen. Scary lol.
Anyways, after numerous failed attempts, I thought maybe there just wasn't compatibility with the re-release, so I tried the 1998 version of the game, went through the exact same process, and again, the menu overhaul crashed the game. I know the mod works, I've used it before, and since it has caused 2 different releases of the game to crash, I'm thinking it may be something with my system?
Windows 7 Pro x64 / NVIDIA video card / Intel CPU
In any case, I want to say thank you for even bothering to create this mod. It really is amazing
Any and all information is greatly appreciated!
Shaun
*Edit to add APP.LOG*
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 590/PCIe/SSE2 4.2.0
INFO: Found swap_control extension
GLITCH: Unable to turn on vsync
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1920x1080, output resolution 1920x1080, internal resolution 1920x1440
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file C:\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Final Fantasy VII\movie\eidoslogo.avi; h264/aac 1280x960, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.193000, frames: 153
INFO: slow output format from video codec h264; 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
ERROR: unhandled exception
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