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Nope, lol, I'm listed as unmuted at the moment but there's no sound on the computer at all.. I can mute and unmute all I want, it doesn't change anything until I reboot. And I just checked my display properties.. it's already set to 32 bit.. so i applied 16 bit and then 32 bit again, but it still doesn't look so hot. thanks for the quick response, though.

edit: Actually, now the audio isn't even fixed after I reboot.. I had to uninstall and reinstall my Conexant HiDef drivers.

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I had installed FF7 last year onto a Gateway computer that was 4 years old at the time. I recently got a new computer and just now was working with FF7 and it and I am having some issues.

First, I can say that I am using FF7Music, have installed the 1.02 and chocobo patches, the Reunion Patch and the Advent Children character icon patch.

The first issue is, this laptop is widescreen. the game will display fine but obviously a little stretched. does anyone know if the High Resolution patch, or some other method, can center things off so that my 1440x900 screen doesn't make the PC game look worse graphically than it may already look? On a related issue, i know the system has to go back a few years in terms of colors and whatever but when i leave the game, the colors on say my wallpapers still don't look so hot. a simple reboot fixes this. is there a quicker fix?

2nd) so i'm playing an old save file and at the exact moment you defeat Safer Sephiroth and he begins to fade away (this is before u have that 'final fight'), the sound cuts out. this happens whether or not FF7Music is enabled. it turns off all the sound on the PC, even though nothing is muted. this, again, is corrected only by reboot. i tried other friends' save files, the same is true on my computer. any thoughts?

3) i've been using my Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller through bluetooth on games on my computer, with some GlovePIE scripts I've compiled. it works pretty well for nearly everything, but if i run ff7 with the Wiimote linked to the computer via Bluetooth, then going into the game, UP-LEFT seems to be stuck. the menus will constantly be being scrolled through, and Cloud is always walking to the left and up. if i go to the CONFIG and hover over a sound option, it will scroll left and turn off, yet if I go to the keyboard config, it doesn't instantly register a value, as if an actual key was being hit. I don't know what's up with that.

other than that, things are working great. i did have the black screen issue before but i disabled ffdshow's running TrueMotion as mentioned here and that got fixed easily.

edit: forgot computer specs.
HP Pavilion dv9225us (17" widescreen, wide enough to have its own number pad)
AMD x2 Turion64 TL-60 2.1GHz, NVIDEA GeForce 7600, Conexant High Quality Audio, Windows XP Pro x86 (i also have a dual boot w/ Vista Ultimate x64 tho i don't think this would work any better there lol)
Bluetooth Widcomm drivers v5.0.1.2500, Nintendo Wii Remote, Wii Nunchuk, GlovePIE software

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Completely Unrelated / Post Your Desktop
« on: 2006-05-01 00:11:24 »
While I don't remember the exact facts, I know there is a patch for Windows, that allows you to use 3rd party themes without any sort of skinning program, like windowblinds or stylexp. it involved replacing a file which i believe was called uxtheme.dll or something along those lines w/a patched one, in your system32 folder. i haven't really done that much with it, i've only found a theme that makes the taskbar and windows look just like the default Windows Media Center edition theme (called Royale). there should be other themes out there that you can use.

i'm wondering if WindowBlinds themes work with this... i should test it sometime..

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Archive / Weird FF7 problem...haven't found a solution yet
« on: 2006-04-24 23:12:18 »
Quote from: sKy
Ah-ah-ah...that might be the problem.


i have an adapter that hooks PS2 controllers to a computer via USB and many times have the same problem. the adapter pretty much sucks, and while sitting there, will sometimes randomly just turn off and on. and if you're holding a key when it turns on, then that key is like permanantly pressed.

how did you get the gamepad to function properly? my POV arrows were not selectable on the configuration list in the game, so i had to use the program JoyToKey to bypass it.

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Archive / FF7 - Minor and Major Game Problems
« on: 2006-04-23 15:53:38 »
i haven't gotten ffdshow, at least not yet, cause i don't believe i've needed it. i tried the file skaulana put up, and it appears to work. running through the files on WMP, one sometimes made the player close, and other times would work fine, others seemed to work fine all the time.

so, i've gotten PSF sound files, and could replace them w/mp3s if i had the soundtrack... my video files seem to be working... that leaves the only problems being needing to keep using the CDs which apparantly i have to do, and errors w/Ficedula's Window Program under 32 bit color. i think the general recommendation is to get The SaiNT's high-resolution patch, but for my understanding, that only patches like the character models, and not the movies. i might be wrong, but otherwise that seems like it wouldn't help w/the Window problem.

so.. if i get any soundtrack and want mp3s, where do i get the mp3 plugin for FF7Music? and ffdshow.. what does that do, allow you to change the videos used? because i heard some people were using the ps3 tech demo as their intro video instead of the original one and that sounds pretty cool.

edit: ok, FF7Music didn't work 100% right... I tried the file at Northern Crater again, this time the FMV worked fine, i got to Sephiroth, but after defeating Safer Sephiroth, there was no sound. none of the cutscenes had any sound, and the sound didn't come back until the credits rolled. The game closed after displayed the FF7 logo, so I checked the list of actions and whatever from FF7Music. I can post that if it will help, though I should remove some stuff from the list.. for some reason it's listing every single time a friend signs onto AIM...

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Archive / Game closing when fight starts.
« on: 2006-04-23 04:06:25 »
Quote from: mcpaper
Windows Xp with a 6600gt. I heard alt tabbing causes instability in the game. I did alt tab.


That seems to be a glitch that both the game creators were aware of, as well as everyone here.. I don't think there is a way around it... If you Alt+Tab, then go back, and enter a battle, it freezes and closes like every time. Though, I found from experience, if you do it DURING a battle, it may be ok for the rest of the battle, until the next one.

You just have to designate time to play where you don't have to Alt+Tab to different applications.

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To add on to what Covarr said, if you want to put your movies on your hard drive (keep in mind that's like 800 megs of movies), you pick a folder you want, usually something simple like 'movies' within your main FF7 directory, and you copy the entire contents of the movies folder of each of your 3 discs to said folder. it shouldn't matter if you say Yes or No to copying over files that are the same, many places say 'just say Yes to be safe.' you then have to find your FF7 folder in your Windows Registry, and find the registry key that has the location of your movie files. you change that from the CD drive folder to your hard drive folder.

if you don't know how to navigate the registry, then i'm sure it's on here somewhere, or just PM me or reply here and someone will tell you how.

edit: i just saw your edit... actually, for me, the same thing happened a few times. like 4 times, it didn't work, and then the 5th it did (but i died) and the 6th i did. i'm not really sure if it's a matter of stability or what, but i do know it's hell to run up those stairs a freakin 6 times.

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Archive / FF7 - Minor and Major Game Problems
« on: 2006-04-22 17:29:08 »
Quote from: Wuz
try searching for "FF7Music PSX PSF" and you'll get half the goddamn forum as results, if you could limit this to title only you'd probably find what you want in a fraction of the time.


yeah i noticed that too, at first i thought it was just my n00bishness but i realized the search here is harder to use.

Quote from: Covarr
You used the 1.04 patch? Would that be animevamp's patch? Don't use it, it's crap.


i actually can't remember what patch i used, but i checked on a list of things that appear when you use THAT patch, and I don't have those errors, so it must not have been that. i'm fairly sure I used the patch right off the home page of Qhimm

i recopied my video files, just to be safe.

EDIT: okay, looked through things.. i ran dziugo's Check and a number of my files appeared to be not so correct (that's what you get when you have your friends give you CDs, i guess).
so then i manually ran the movie files I had problems with, like gold6 and it'd say about this problem, "TrueMotion Filder needs to be updated, try www.duck.com" right on the video screen. so i went there, where it said they didn't work on FF7 anymore, but i remembered reading about it here w/ 'betap'.
it says to uninstall video codecs before running this... like.. everything? like, all the quicktime, WMP, DivX, and whatever plugins i have? or just something specific. just on a whim, i ran the betap thing anyway. i go to install, and right when i say yes to agree to the license stuff, it flashes on my screen and everything closes. like it started installing, and either finished blazingly fast or just closed itself. so i'm not sure what to do about that.
i could view other video files just fine. Those in question, if i skip around the video file, work fine, other than that one split second where the TM error comes up, i'm not sure if that means something or not.
those videos don't look so bad when i run them on WMP full screen. they actually look pretty good. i check the video compression on it... TrueMotion 2.0 Decompressor?!?! double u tee eff, man! i am SO LOST...

at least i got the FF7Music and PSFs to work....

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Archive / Re: FF7 - Minor and Major Game Problems
« on: 2006-04-21 00:54:22 »
Quote from: Wuz

as Midgar said, dziugo's got a fix for getting around the date sequence (do a search, it should'nt be hard to find unlike some things)
you will always need the CD in the drive, the movie fix is well worth doing though.
as for the sound, do you have a creative soundcard that has options for soundfonts in its control panel? I use an old sound blaster live value specifically to use soundfonts and make FF7's midi music sound closer to PSX. Did'nt particularly like my FF7Music experience and soundfonts enhance the music enough for me.


all right, heh, i wasn't exactly sure WHAT of dziugo's to look for, and i actually thought the date sequence was later, but now i have a better clue what to look for.

I don't believe I have a Creative soundcard, seeing as I don't any sort of control panel for my sound other than the "Sound and Audio Device Properties" and there, the only things listed for sound are SoundMAX Digital Audio and Modem #0 Line Playback. i tried installing the soundfont program off the cd and it came up i didn't have some certain file in this subdirectory in my WINNT folder.. if i was really enthusiastic about it, i could probably rip the sound card from an older computer we have, i know it had Sound Blaster programs.. i specifically remember one called Soundo'LE... don't think we have the driver disks anymore, tho  :(

but i will check through dziugo's stuff, thanx for the tips.

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Archive / FF7 - Minor and Major Game Problems
« on: 2006-04-20 20:45:42 »
I've had a number of small problems, and now I have a big one, so I thought I'd post them all together.

FF7
Patched to 1.02 and then w/Chocobo Patch to 1.04, and Reunion Patch.

Has, otherwise, been working fine.

Big Problem:
For some reason, during certain cutscenes, the game freezes. The video will freeze, and the audio will keep going until the song ends (and if it's a looping song, it just goes on and on). I can't get out of it. At one point, while I couldn't see anything, I was able to access the start menu and log out of my name, and when I came back in, I recieved "Windows has recovered from a serious error."
This happened to me when I was at Gold Saucer with Aeris on the tour thing w/all the cut scenes (it was a few in), and then it happened when I was using a friend's save file to try and fight Sephiroth; it was saved at the bottom of the Northern Crater, and would freeze right after the Jenova battle, when all this rock started moving.

So, unless those are fixed.. I'm kinda stuck.

Minor Problems:
Maybe I should just ignore this, but... the sound. I've heard the PSX version, and i wish i could sound as close as possible. I've tried installing the Yamaha S-YXG70 synthesizer that comes with the game.. while it installs, it doesn't really work. It doesn't appear on my Sound Properties as a MIDI device in any form, doesn't appear in any program I have that uses MIDI.. it only appears in the FFVII configuration program, and then, the only difference I can hear is that there is a delay and the percussion is different. I want the synthesizer not only for good sound in the game, but also for use in MIDI creation, because I understand that I would have access to much more instruments. If I try running the S-YXG70 Configuration, no program comes up. If I run the XGPlayer, I get an error saying there is no driver on my system.
If it turns out my sound card is incompatible, or winXP sucks, i'll deal w/it, but i'd really like to have some kind of working synthesizer.

window: i've tried using the FF7 launch program where you can make it run in a window, but then the cut scenes look messed up (have black bars over them). when i switch to 16 bit colored mode, then it is fixed, but it's annoying to have to switch color modes to use one program. any way to make this easier, work better, or another way to play the game in a window?

running off HD: i copied the movie files over, and modified the registry. it still asks me to insert a CD when i play. i try changing the 'DataDrive' directory but it just doesn't run, then. how can i make the game run off my computer w/no CDs, no problem?

any help is appreciated!

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Completely Unrelated / Post Your Desktop
« on: 2006-04-15 23:19:08 »
Quote from: atzn
Decided to go for Mac look this time....  :D

New desktop

Alright I guess I should be revising now.... :erm:


i'm curious on how you pulled that off... it at least LOOKS like a cross between Windowblinds and a Vista Beta. i WANT the toolbar at the buttom! how did you do this?

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one of the Japanese versions of Advent Children was supposed to also include the OAV Last Order, so maybe the second disk includes that (though I'm sure it's short enough to fit on the main disk w/the movie)

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Troubleshooting / The controls of FF7
« on: 2006-04-15 03:46:51 »
I have an adaptor for a PSX/2 DualShock controller that goes to USB, XBOX and GCN. FFVIII wouldn't read the Arrow POVs, though, so I use a program called JoyToKey to map the gamepad to the normal keyboard inputs for the game. i also can use JoyToKey to turn my controller into a backup mouse :D

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