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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-10-06 08:34:01 »

ff7music is already automatically launched and closed with ff7 automatically via batch files.

Fair enough, I personally never used them. Don't really see the point in this then xD

Edit: Just realized the very misplaced typo

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-10-06 00:34:44 »

Would it be too hard to make a new ff7.exe that would replace the current (backup ofc) and would just go ahead and launch ff7music & then the game?

Here you go, rename the original FF7.exe to "FF7game.exe", and throw this in the root directory of your FF7 install (where FF7game.exe is) and you can run this instead.
I seriously threw this together in like 30 seconds. I haven't tested it beyond booting the game, but it should work 100%- I don't think renaming the original exe is will break anything ('cept the shortcuts that the Remix installs won't run nicely).
But, adding an exit option to the main menu is a whole different story.

@Titeguy, I threw this together with Autoit. I can make a version that doesn't need the actual FF7.exe file to be renamed and you can use it in future releases if you want.

EDIT: A link to the exe might help.....
http://www.mediafire.com/?cnmx0imtzmd

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-18 11:19:54 »

That's odd, it looks to me like you've done everything right... try disabling post processing? I know that smartbloom works in windowed mode but I've only ever tried bloom2 in fullscreen...

For the record I've been using smartbloom with fullscreen- not saying that it isn't the problem or anything. I just want it to be known that it does in at least some cases, if not all .

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-15 23:21:24 »

Since I had started a new game, I had played through that part with this patch (It might have been an older version, like 2.1 or something but I don't think there is anything different between those two version that would affect this).

I also had some difficult sneaking out- what worked for me was just running- I didn't even try walking. I ran straight out the door as far up as you can get, and then followed straight right until I got to the beginning of the stairs, then turn and go down them. Not exactly how it was suppose to happen, but it worked xD

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-12 19:29:53 »

Not to mention my RAM costs 40 bucks for 1 gig, and my parents don't trust ebay >_>

Newegg ftw. When I build computers and buy parts I always use either Tigerdirect or Newegg. From personal experience- I get packages faster from Tigerdirect, but Newegg always has the cheapest price. And they are both very trustworthy.

Here's the exact setup I'm using in my computer for RAM.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227269
Assuming your computer uses DDR2 and can handle the clock speed (If you tell me what motherboard you have I can find out for you ) this is a pretty good deal. If you don't know what kinda motherboard you have- download Everest and it can tell you.
http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?ps=&page=11&dlid=36&lang=en

But, if you computer is older- it may only take DDR1 ram, in which case RAM will be a bit more expensive (2gigs for $57.99 is the prices I'm looking at on Newegg atm)

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-11 02:52:31 »

@zockirrer
Sorry man, I really don't know what the problem is... wish I could help

@musaru
What's your resolution set to while running the game. By the sounds of it, your computer is having trouble keeping up with decoding the video.

My (simplified) specs are:
AMD X2 6400+ (3.2 GHz Dual Core)
4 Gigs ram
2 x GeForce 9800 GTX+

and I run my game at 1920*1080 with post processing and the works and it still hiccups from time to rare time.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-11 02:24:23 »

i did everything just getting a blackscreen with nothing happening again ..

Here is my last ditch effort, I honestly don't know what else to try after this.

This is a copy of my registy stuff for FF7 (with a few minor edits so that it will point to your program files and right reg keys)
Try deleting "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.", the whole folder. Then importing my keys.
Launch "C:\Programme\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula\ff7music.exe" and then run FF7 through that.

http://rapidshare.com/files/278380431/FF7kezzz.reg.html
If this doesn't work then I really don't know if there is anything I can do to help...

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-11 01:29:42 »

Alright---
1) To edit the opengl config, just open a notepad and drag and drop the "ff7_opengl.cfg" into and and edit then save. It's just a plain text file.

Here is what I recommend you do- this will be a bit of a hacky task but if this doesnt work, I dunno if I will be able to help you.

1) Back-up your saves folder (...\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\save)
2) Uninstall FF7 using the uninstaller (you have to use the uninstaller, it will clean the reg entries too)
3) Double check that "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc." doesn't exist anymore-- if it does, delete it.
4) Delete the Square Soft, Inc folder from your program files folder, completely removing all traces of everything.
5) Reinstall Final Fantasy 7 from the disc, do a full install.
6) Run "FF7Config.exe" (located in ...\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\) and press okay, don't worry about any of the settings. (You can copy back your saves at this point too)
7) Open Winrar and then open Final_Fantasy_VII_Remix_v2-3_Installer.exe, extract all the files in it to ...\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ (like you normally would, we just dont want the post install script to start right away.
8.) Unrar and copy these files into ...\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\, overwrite any files it asks about (http://rapidshare.com/files/278367841/Fix_plz.rar.html)
9) Run ff7remixpostinstall.bat located in ...\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\
10) Browse into the ...\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies" folder and run "ff7movkeyC.reg"
11) Enjoy?

And I need to know, I took it for granted before due to your screenshot- but you are installing and running this from a C: drive right?

Also, after looking at the VBS script, I'm not sure why it doesn't install right for you. I think it might have to do with stuff having different names from the english Windows to the version you are running.
^^ Sorry had to change the steps on you, one of the paths was hard coded and I can't test\am having a hard time changing it...

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-11 01:15:23 »

ermmm.. I've had this problem before, but never really figured out 100% what caused it, but I know it has to do with registry stuff.

What I want you to try is start regedit. Goto "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\1.00\Graphics" Select the whole graphics folder and delete it (right click the folder)
Then try adding this to the registry and rerunning.
http://rapidshare.com/files/278361235/ff7opengl.reg.html
This might produce the same behavior you have been having we will see....

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-11 01:02:06 »

now i get a :error cannot load movie plug in
and i still cant configure openGL

Is there a file in "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\" called "tm20dec.ax"
if not copy the file into there and try again.

http://rapidshare.com/files/278357607/tm20dec.ax.html

Also, did you install the remix patch right off a clean install without having run the game before? <--EDIT

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-11 00:36:58 »

Try adding this to your registry (double click it and say okay)
http://rapidshare.com/files/278350136/ff7hopefullyfixed.reg.html
and then try running the game.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-10 23:46:10 »

@titeguy3:
Nevermind, found out on my own.

@zockirrer:
Oh crap, I misread- you have the german setup. Gimme sometime to look over what is going on and I'll try to help too.
EDIT: Do me a favor, open regedit "Open the run dialog and type "regedit" and press enter. Browse to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.", right click on the folder and pick export. Then upload that somewhere so we can take a look.

@CyberPirate
Try running FF7music.exe as admin (browse into the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula" folder yourself and do it), then launch FF7 with the button inside FF7music. See if that works.

Also, to anyone who is installing from a completely clean FF7 installation- as-in you haven't even ran the game yet. Run "FF7Config.exe" before you run install the Remix patch. FF7 always runs this program once (since it sets up your config), but it writes reg values that will overwrite the Remix's reg values. So this has to be ran before you install the Remix installer (or just rerunning ff7remixpostinstall.bat should fix the problem, if the reg values have been messed up.)

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-10 17:12:09 »

It will work, but you will have to do some manual registry and text editing, I can give you step-by-step instructions on what you will have to edit- but I don't have time right now, as I'm about to leave for class.

If Titeguy3 hasn't helped you by the time I get back- I can tell you what all will need to be edited, and what it needs to be edited to.

And btw, in that screenshot- did you open the OpenGL.cfg yourself? Or did the setup open it? 'Cause, thinking off the top of my head, if you're game is located in "Programme", it shouldn't have opened on it's own.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-10 00:47:02 »

-.-


I have no idea what's doing it. This time it seemed like the second part was the corrupt part- last time it was the first part.
The only reported CRC error was:
"CRC failed in movies\gold4.avi"
which can be pulled off the discs.
At this point I don't know what the problem with the corruption is, let's just stick with the one-linker when it comes back up.


Also, the key for x64 movies has to goto
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII]
not, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII]

This will fix it, after a couple of changes, some experimenting, and a lot of installing and uninstalling xD.
http://www.mediafire.com/?oz2ldayy2zm
I can confirm it works pretty flawlessly on Windows 7 x64.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-09 17:27:26 »

-.-
I can confirm what albertopsp is saying- I downloaded them last night but didn't test them until I saw that supposedly they were still showing up as corrupt.
Here's the winrar errors, it only complains about the first part this time-

Redownloaded the first part and I still does the same thing.

Also, when you ignore the CRC error with winrar, the installer gets CRC errors on:
"CRC failed in ficedula\mp3\aseri2(remix).mp3"
"CRC failed in ff7.exe"

My best guess is that filefront isn't playing nice with the file size (if the maximum size is 600MB, not sure myself tbh)
I would try splitting them at 550MB, it'd still be 3 parts this way anyways.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-08 21:25:51 »

Also, I just noticed the problem with FF7music on x64 (when you have to repick the plugins)
"[Setup]
InputPlugin=C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula\in_mad.dll
OutputPlugin=C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula\out_wave.dll"

you would need to change the paths in that (ff7music.ini), it would be simple to make the installer do this for you (include a FF7music.ini file with the x64 paths and have the x64postinstallscript overwrite it with it), but I don't think it's really needed since the manual fix for it is easy anyways, just have to repick the plugins.

Edit:
Actually, all you seem to have to do is change the .ini to-
"[Setup]
InputPlugin=in_mad.dll
OutputPlugin=out_wave.dll"

This works, it looks for the plugin in the same folder as itself this way and the path is relative, not hardcoded. So no matter what kinda system you are running, or on what drive, it will pick them up.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-08 01:19:52 »

Thanks for the help, I've compiled v2.2, no real significant game enhancements, but I've fixed a plethora of 64-bit compatibility issues and "prettied up" things with custom icons. The mirror should be fully uploaded by tomorrow.

My apologizes, titeguy3, I woulda noticed this earlier had I tried installing from the original discs to begin with.
It seems the for the same reason that the OpenGL reg needs a different version for Vista x64 is true for getting the videos to work.

I've been trying to get this to install correctly off the original discs (come to find out the installer I was using before made the video changes for me).

This will fix it, after a couple of changes, some experimenting, and a lot of installing and uninstalling xD.
http://www.mediafire.com/?oz2ldayy2zm
I can confirm it works pretty flawlessly on Windows 7 x64.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-07 21:32:32 »

Hehe, no better time for a new version than when the installer for the last one ends up getting corrupt xD.

If you can any other questions about if any of the .bat files work, or how they act, lemme know. I can look into it for you. And I do remember getting an error somewhere along the lines about "FF7RemixShortcuts.vbs", but I ignored it

Also, if you care to change them, all of the .bats for opening the configs don't have x64 support, but you can do the same trick you use at the beginning of the post install script to get those to work. And are the ff7MovieKey.reg files setup at all to use the Program Files (x86) folder? I noticed that you delete them along the lines, so maybe there were ones that used the x86 path, but got deleted. At the moment the only ones in my movies dir all use the Program Files path.
Heh, and looking at the keys in regedit show them in the normal programs folder, not the x86 one, BUT the movies have been working so far... at least the intro (the improved one, I'm guessing it's from that tech demo Sony did)

If you want help, lemme know-- I'm more than willing

Edit: Whether you want them or not http://www.mediafire.com/?uztwmn2tyzm
Should have all the .regs and .bat setup for x64 and x86

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-07 21:13:42 »

Well, it's not a big deal- I personally hate UAC and don't know why I leave it on at all xD.

Actually, I just disabled it, I've always hated it since I upgraded from XP.

That aside, I've noticed a" bug" with the 64bitpostinstall.bat file.
It attempts to open "%ProgramFiles%\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ff7_opengl.cfg", which won't work since that is equal to
"Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ff7_opengl.cfg", but the opengl.cfg file should be in the Program Files (x86) folder, this aside the whole .bat file runs as it should.

I'm trying to find right path you want without hardcoding it to a specific drive letter, but I can't find anything like %ProgramFiles% that points to the x86 folder..

EDIT: I guess it seems to be "%ProgramFiles(x86)%" but watch out because the last time I put that in my "run" prompt my whole computer crashed :S. Nevermind that crash, I just edited the .bat myself and it worked and opened the config file correctly. My one last question about the bat is, shouldn't it open the "ff7opengl_vista64.reg" file instead of the "ff7opengl.reg" or is that specifically for vista/7 x64, not XP x64?

EDIT EDIT: Nevermind, just realized you took care of the opengl.reg file stuff in the first post install script, all that needs to be changed is that "%ProgramFiles(x86)%"

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-07 20:37:34 »

I'm also on x64 win7 Ultimate.  I'll see what I can do as well about getting it to install.  I've never made winrar ignore broken files, so can you tell me how to force that?

If you right click the rar file and select "extract files..." there is a check box in the bottom left that says "Keep broken files" check than and extract.

If you dont have winrar integrated into windows. Double-click the rar, then click the "Extract to..." button, which will bring up the same dialog as the above steps.

You will still get the errors, but it won't delete the file.

EDIT: I got the music working, not sure if this is related to x64, but what FF7 music was outputting lead me to believe it was working, upon further inspection (opening the FF7 music config), it has the correct plugins selected, but FF7 Music isn't using them. If you reselect the plugin it will load it into FF7 music and then it will work. So, as of right now, I currently have a fully working FF7 install on Windows 7 x64 and the Remix mod installed (Minus the two corrupt files ). Once I find my original CDs I will do a clean from scratch install with them and let you know how it goes- but I'm fairly confident it will work.

The way I start the program (this matter because if you don't run FF7 as admin it seems to like to crash, at least that's my experience, is to start FF7 music as administrator, and then start FF7 via that. This method, so far, has been working perfectly.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-07 20:07:04 »

It may be possible that you could just upload the files that come out corrupt when you still install using the corrupt installer, at least as a temporary fix. The only problem is that you need to know which files aren't coming out right.

After looking, the installer doesn't install the corrupt files, so you would need to upload the .mp3 and .avi that come out corrupt (in my last post), but then the problem is the plugins at the end, since it's a general message for installing them, not specific file names. If you know what order they are suppose to install (or what files the plugins are) I can find which ones don't install right for you.

Edit: And for the record I just got it working (so far) on Windows 7 x64 with the corrupt Remix installer (but I'm sure it's bound to crash eventually xD)

I was able to get the game to not crash on startup by running it as administrator. But at the same time I wasn't installing the Remix onto a clean straight from the disc install, I'm using an installer that has some patches already installed (and I'm not sure what.) I'm gonna do a clean install using the original discs and then try installing your remix pack, then I will get back to you. This way we can make sure it's all working because of what's in your installer- not what was already installed. For the record I am running it now at 1920 * 1080 with the aspect ratio maintained, but I'm having trouble getting the music to work.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

« on: 2009-09-07 19:29:41 »

I'm having the same problem as KibaOokami- the rars on filefront are corrupt.

I was able to get them to extract by telling Winrar to keep broken files. But when I run the actual installer I get CRC errors on
"ficedula\mp3\fin.mp3"
"movies\ending2.avi"
and then at the end of the installer, after it says "Extracting plugins" it tells me that my download was corrupt and that I need to download a fresh copy.

Either way, I'm going to test and see if it works with these files being corrupt. Since it seems only the very end of the rar archives is what the problem is it might be possible to be able to fix the problem (manually) without having to upload the whole installer again.
And by the way, I have a 64bit system (with Windows 7) so along with trying to fix the corruption issue, I can test on a 64bit system for you

Edit: I've gotten the game to run, but it crashes as soon as it starts, the only problem is that I don't know if it's because the bad files in the corrupted Remix installer, or if it's because of my OS