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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-23 13:17:54 »

Ok thanks, that's good to know. I will try and find more specific solutions for this and get back then.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-22 17:03:48 »

The 2010 MBP 13" has a sole Nvidia 320M, and unfortunately no BIOS to boot into 

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-22 00:34:24 »

Hi Kompass63.
Thanks for your reply. As already stated on page 11, I am unfortunately very well aware of this and has certainly been running the latest Nvidia drivers from the get go. Also shown in the screenshot in my previous post is a screenshot of the Nvidia control panel, and I have also set the custom driver to custom rather than the software renderer.

On the first run of the game immediately after install, the game actually ran with the custom driver but on further launches no such luck though...

My question so far is how to make FF7 or the Nvidia Control Panel realize that it should be using the custom + Nvidia driver?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-21 17:49:30 »

Any suggestions for me to get that pesky custom driver recognized properly?

So far so good. This is how it looks in my Nvidia Control Panel. Doesn't seem like I am able to override it somehow... :/
Tried opening FF7 afterwards and still same results.


nvidia_settings

Edit: Any good advice as to what I should try next in my (seemingly) everlasting troubleshooting attempts to make it work?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-13 22:30:13 »

So far so good. This is how it looks in my Nvidia Control Panel. Doesn't seem like I am able to override it somehow... :/
Tried opening FF7 afterwards and still same results.


nvidia_settings

Edit: Any good advice as to what I should try next in my (seemingly) everlasting troubleshooting attempts to make it work?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-13 15:43:41 »

if your app.log is empty its likely that Aali's driver is not installed properly, have you fun FF7Config and made sure "Custom Driver" is selected on the graphics page ? if it is installed correctly try setting FF7 to run in a window instead of fullscreen inside "ff7_opengl.cfg" and then try running ff7.exe again and see what happens, if it comes up fullscreen still even though it was disabled in the cfg then its the driver not installed properly, if it runs in a window but still just black then its a different problem.

What I did:
Opened ff7config, pressed the graphics tab and made sure that I got the "self test passed" popup and checked that custom driver was selected below "primary display driver".
Edited ff7_opengl.cfg so fullscreen mode was disabled, internal res set to 640*480.

Results after running ff7.exe:
Popup with warning: "OpenGL renderer appears to be the Microsoft software renderer. Your graphics drivers are probably not installed correctly. Expect extreme lag."
Final fantasy 7 window appears but looks like software rendering. Also windows is set to 256 colors and "windows 7 basic".

So, no freezing this time, however a bit weirded out since I have installed the custom driver, no?

APP file:

Code: [Select]

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: Microsoft Corporation GDI Generic 1.1.0
INFO: GDI software renderer detected
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: VBO not supported
INFO: PBO not supported
INFO: Subtractive blending not supported
INFO: No swap_control extension, cannot control framerate
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 1024x1024
INFO: Number of texture units: 1
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: No NPOT texture support
ERROR: init_indirect failed, scaling and postprocessing will be disabled
INFO: internal resolution clamped to 1280x960
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
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file c:\games\ff7\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE hand_1.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE hand_1.tim
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki1.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki1.tim
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki2.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki2.tim
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki3.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki3.tim
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki4.TEX
ERROR: COULD NOT LOAD TEXTURE DATA FILE sibuki4.tim
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: c:\games\ff7\movies\eidoslogo.avi; h264/aac 1280x960, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.193000, frames: 153
ERROR: movie dimensions exceed max texture size, skipping
ERROR: NPOT textures not suppported, will not be able to load c:\games\ff7\/mods/bootleg/cr/opback_d_00.png
ERROR: NPOT textures not suppported, will not be able to load c:\games\ff7\/mods/bootleg/cr/opback_e_00.png
ERROR: NPOT textures not suppported, will not be able to load c:\games\ff7\/mods/bootleg/cr/opback_f_00.png
INFO: c:\games\ff7\movies\sqlogo.avi; h264/aac 1280x896, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 14.605000, frames: 219
ERROR: movie dimensions exceed max texture size, skipping
ERROR: GL_INVALID_VALUE
set music volume: 127
WM_CLOSE
END OF CREDITS!!!
Field Quit
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD


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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-11 18:12:15 »

if your app.log is empty its likely that Aali's driver is not installed properly, have you fun FF7Config and made sure "Custom Driver" is selected on the graphics page ? if it is installed correctly try setting FF7 to run in a window instead of fullscreen inside "ff7_opengl.cfg" and then try running ff7.exe again and see what happens, if it comes up fullscreen still even though it was disabled in the cfg then its the driver not installed properly, if it runs in a window but still just black then its a different problem.

Will try and get back to you. Thank you so much for the quick answer rate here!

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-10 18:08:26 »

Thx for the reply.

No keypad no. I just figured I could use the arrow keys on the keyboard?
I went by the 1920*720 since it was recommended, wasn't sure 16:10 ratio was supported. No matter what it won't fix my problem of the game freezing on the first black screen... *sniffle*

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2012-10-10 16:54:46 »

Hello there!
Just signed up for this forum.

My FF7 sense was tingling one week ago and to my surprise I realised that Square had remade the game for PC! Big was my disappointment though when reading reviews of it (MIDI sound? REALLY Square?) and seeing it on Youtube. UNTIL I stumbled on EQ2Alyza Youtube video of the modded version, and my guts went nuts with anticipation and sentimentality! What you have achieved is incredible!

So, after having bought the 2012 version I have kind of turned the Bootlegged version of FF7 into a longitudinal hobby, mostly because of the problems that have been occurring to me ^_^

So I am running Windows 7 64-bit on a 13" Macbook Pro (the 2010 version using the Nvidia 320M) with updated everything. Firewall + Microsoft Security Essentials are turned off and I have closed all conceivable programs while installing. My first test run was on a pirated version of the game but this went completely wrong, so I caved yesterday and (re)-bought the game (must have paid for this game 4 times now. 2 x Playstation, 1 x PS3 and 1 x 2012 PC remake), attempting the hitherto impossible yet again.

On first launch using EQ2Alyza's settings (with the exception of 1920*1080 res, I had to run 1280*720) it worked! Intro was shown, splash screen and sound were good. However, no controls worked and I guess this was because I am on a laptop? I found and copied the file ff7input.cfg to c:\games\ff7 and on launch a black screen and the whole computer froze. I then rebooted, removed the cfg file and tried again to no avail.
The freezing thing also happened using the pirated version the day before though, however, it never made it to the start menu.
What really bothered me was that it actually ran once with the exception of having no controls.

So what should I do now?
The APP file is completely empty so something is definitely not initializing yet.
Should I recompile the bootleg to something less taxing for the videocard?
Uninstall and reinstall again (this is a pain btw because it takes half an hour)?

I just wanted to ask here first if it means that I can avoid starting all over again...