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Archive / Getting Started All Over Again

« on: 2005-09-06 14:44:51 »

Yes , the high-res patch, now already includes the chocobo patch.

...Would be really nice if the "FFVII Tweakers" like : The Saint, Reunion and jedwin, contact each other and make a big patch, as soon as all the work has been done.

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Archive / Highway MiniGame speed?

« on: 2005-09-06 14:25:49 »

OK, I got about 2min and 40sec. You do the math .

So it's about 25.0FPS. Big thanks for that.

I've also found a bug in the Snowboard MiniGame (serious one... could cause the crashing, but it's easy to fix). Has it already been fixed? Shall I correct this too?

dziugo

Hi!
This bug in the snowboard game is really annoying and it wasn't fixed yet.
Here in my pc the game ( with all fix patches )keeps crashing in this minigame, I only managed to pass in software rendering mode.
If you can fix this thing up will be really aprecciated!!

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General Discussion / fun with renders (squall)

« on: 2005-09-01 16:15:42 »

THX Almighty!!!

As soon as I get better I'll post some work here!!! Thx!!!

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Archive / FF7 Snowboard crash

« on: 2005-08-30 17:25:02 »

Hi!

One thing about de speed of mini-games ( like snowboarding and bike):

If you turn on the V-sync in the driver settings it work , because it will be limited to 60 fps (worked for me).

And about the crashes:

Just turn off the hardware acceleration in that point ( software rendering) and, past this point, turn it on again (this one worked for me too).

I hope it helped. Good luck.

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General Discussion / fun with renders (squall)

« on: 2005-08-30 14:48:45 »

Hi!

Hey almighty, I'm a studant of 3d modeling (noob student yet   ) , may you tell me about some good books  and/or indicate some DOC's about 3d modeling?

 Thx a lot!

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Troubleshooting / game crashes after cloud loses his marbles.

« on: 2005-08-30 14:22:29 »

Hi!

  If you can't send your game to Dziugo (or wanted another solution), you can turn your game to run in software rendering mode and after this point re-activate the hardware aceleration.
  Check if the executable (ff7.exe) is in win98 compatibility mode ( file properties), this may help sometimes...
  Good luck!

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Archive / Final Fantasy VII: Orchestral SoundFont (Pre-release)

« on: 2005-08-29 18:42:43 »

I couldn't try your soundfont because the sfark link is broken.
I'm looking for it in the web now...

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Archive / 8-bit pallete fails in FF8 - Was there ever a fix for this?

« on: 2005-08-26 14:43:56 »

please let's discute of how we can solve this problem...i guess Savege is the only one who can really help us

Yes, I agree...

 But, I think it's a hardware related problem 'cause  the "8-bit palletized textures" depends on something else . It uses an old way to compress textures called FXT1 that our new hardware no long uses (as far as i know). Maybe it don't depends only on drivers, but in the GPU architeture itself. If this is the case...oh well...nothing can be done.
 But correct me if I'm wrong, please.

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Archive / 8-bit pallete fails in FF8 - Was there ever a fix for this?

« on: 2005-08-25 17:58:40 »

sfx1999, do you play FFVIII with a GeForce 6800gt in HARDWARE mode and without any problems?
 Please, teach me this magic!!!

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Archive / FF VII/VIII and 6800GT

« on: 2005-08-25 17:52:33 »

Man,, I have this same video card with an athlon64 3200+:

 The FFVII with the 1.02 patch works perfectly ( including with "Reunion" and "The Saint" patches). FSAA 4x max though.
 The FFVIII didn't work and I believe it won't ( i have no optimism left.. ).


Good luck.

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Archive / 8-bit pallete fails in FF8 - Was there ever a fix for this?

« on: 2005-08-25 17:31:25 »

Hi everyone!

savage-xp, I hope you succeed in resolve the blackbox problem in FF8 for geforce 6 users...  

 ...But some time ago I spent 3 days trying to fix or find a fix for this with no results...and finnaly  I had an idea...

    I bought an old Voodoo 4 4500 AGP  for  almost nothing and everything is good now!

 When i finish playing both VII and VIII, i'll replace it again...

Good luck savage-xp, I hope you  succeed cause I don't wanna be changing video cards forever!

By the way, if you need help in something count on me!

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Releases / [BETA RELEASE] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00]

« on: 2005-08-25 16:46:32 »

Wow! Nice!
I'll try as soon I get in home.

By the way Saint, did you include the right TEX file to silence\sleep? And do you think the same can be done to ff8.exe too (resolution patch)? :wicked:
Just wondering....

Thx a lot!

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Releases / [BETA RELEASE] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00]

« on: 2005-08-17 00:00:17 »

Hi Saint!

Found other thing, the Ultima is showing some problems too...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a383/X-Hunter1290/Ultimaglitch.jpg

Thx!!!

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Releases / [BETA RELEASE] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00]

« on: 2005-08-13 04:53:15 »

EDIT:Sorry, I did not read the last posts and the aswer about the 2d backgrounds.....will be really annoying to do it ( change something in the engine to make background better)....

The only way to do this is either create a whole new engine that works with the content or hack the engine.  The later is unlikely to get anything but trouble. The former is pretty much the only option.  Unfortunately modifying the backgrounds does mean something, it means an alteration of the original copyrighted material, this cannot be distributed etc.  So either way is not going to be pleasant.

Background blockyness is not going to go away without something questionably legal.

Cyb

...So interpolation is a good option (though hard to do )

               And I think: "lots of things have been changed already..."
               This wouldn't be: " Distribute altered copyrighted material"
               But yes: "Distribute a program that allow you to mess with the copy you own!!!"
                                                         ....Nevermind....

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Releases / [BETA RELEASE] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00]

« on: 2005-08-12 23:25:18 »

Hello!
 I've got this patch and it works great!!!
But I have a question...
 Can't we using LGP tools or whatever, extract the game backgrounds and make it blurred with photoshop or another editor and replace the original ones? This would solve the problem with Great 3d models and horrible 2d backgrounds...
 If there's a way, and it requires a lot of work ( probably by judging the lenght of the game), I would be one to help...I've tried myself but I couldn't find these damn screens...
 And another thing:
         Here in my PC, both the status Muted and Silence are screwd (a flickering box apper in the head of the character).
 
THX a lot for every thing Saint!!!


EDIT:Sorry, I did not read the last posts and the aswer about the 2d backgrounds.....will be really annoying to do it ( change something in the engine to make background better)....