I followed those instructions prior to posting for help. I uninstalled the game, completely deleted the game folder, ran the registry key cleaner, reinstalled from steam, and restarted the process.
EDIT:
I messed around with some settings, and the game launched. After the Square Soft logo screen, the game crashed saying...
Error
Opps! 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.
Write emergency save to save/crash.ff7?
Here is APP.LOG
[00000000] INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.8.1b
[00000000] INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
[00000000] INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2 4.5.0 NVIDIA 381.65
[00000000] INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
[00000000] INFO: Found swap_control extension
[00000000] INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
[00000000] INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1920x1080, output resolution 1440x1080, internal resolution 3840x2160
[00000000] INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 4096
[00000000] INFO: postprocessing program link log:
Fragment info
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0(133) : warning C7050: "refractedColor.w" might be used before being initialized
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
[00000000] INFO: VGMStream music plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
[00000000] LOCK UNLOCK TEST
[00000001] MATRIX INITIALIZE
[00000001] INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
[00000001] initializing sound...
[00000001] creating dsound primary buffer
[00000001] reading audio file
[00000001] loading static sounds
[00000001] sound initialized
[00000001] set music volume: 127
[00000001] set music volume: 127
[00000001] Entering MAIN
[00000001] Exiting MAIN
[00000001] START OF CREDITS!!!
[00000001] INFO: C:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\data\movies\eidoslogo.avi; vp8/vorbis 1280x960, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 11.133000, frames: 334
[00000181] set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
[00000246] END OF CREDITS!!!
[00000246] Entering MAIN
[00000246] set music volume: 127
[00000246] Exiting MAIN
[00000246] START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
[00000246] ERROR: unhandled exception
I uploaded crash.dmo, but not sure how useful that is, since its not readable in a text editor.
http://www.fast-files.com/getfile.aspx?file=144268It appears as though it crashes when initializing the menu system.