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Archive / Chocobo Crash STILL happening

« on: 2004-05-27 19:12:19 »

I was posting it because it was remarkably similar to my original Chocobo Race error that was solved by the Chocobo Patch. It happened at the exact same time (as near as I could tell), and a similar looking error window popped up.

I still occasionally have this error, but its not serious since it happens fairly rarely. Also, since it has now happened in other parts of the game (although it still occurs most frequently at the Chocobo races), I guess I'll have to chalk it up to some sort of problem different from the actual Chocobo Race error that the patch was created to stop.

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General Discussion / Chocobo Racing

« on: 2004-05-21 17:46:39 »

Hey, could someone post the FF7 Playstation buttons and what they correlate to in the computer version? I know how to regain stamina... but I'm pretty sure I'm not pressing the right buttons.

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General Discussion / Chocobo Racing

« on: 2004-05-21 05:37:01 »

I've bred my chocobo up to Gold, fed him enough Sylkis Greens to kill a Zolom, but I still can't win S-Class races! No matter how powerful my Chocobo gets... that &$*# Black Chocobo always stays impossibly powerful. 163 km top speed stamina: 1467!!!!! This is the second time I'm playing through the game, but I can't remember if I ever maanged to beat him the first time through. Does anyone here have any tips as to how to beat this guy/raise a better Chocobo? My gold seems to be amxed at 147 km top speed and stamina at 999.

EDIT: Sorry about the double post, I was having server problems.

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Archive / Chocobo Crash STILL happening

« on: 2004-05-20 06:00:53 »

What's your OS Aaron?

Also, I've been Chocobo racing a little more, but haven't had anymore problems, but I figured I'd post the error here anyway in case there was a problem with the patch. Since it hasn't recurred (yet) it might have just been a random bug.

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Archive / Chocobo Crash STILL happening

« on: 2004-05-20 02:01:46 »

Before anyone gets the wrong impression.... yes I have d/led and installed the Chocobo Patch. And yes, for awhile it did work. However, now the error (if its the same one, that is) has returned. When I started a race, a Windows XP error emssage came up saying that the error was caused here:

AppName: ff7.exe    AppVer: 0.0.0.0    ModName: winmm.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.1106    Offset: 00016efd

Hoping someone can tell me if this is the same as the earlier Chocobo problem, since I didn't even look at the message then.

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Archive / Videos crashing

« on: 2004-05-17 21:03:06 »

No, actually my problem was not in the FAQ. My movies DO play, and these errors are the exception, not the rule. This is only the second time I've had this problem, the first time being at the Gold Saucer (oops, I realize that I said Gold Chocobo instead), so i don't need any of these video patches.

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Archive / Videos crashing

« on: 2004-05-17 18:10:53 »

For some reason, when I'm at the Crater for the first time, right at the end when all the Weapons appear, the video crashes after awhile, which then crashes the whole game. I've had this problem once before, during the gondola ride at the Gold Chocobo, but I was able to get past it after one retry. However, this time I've already retried it 4 times, without success (which is really frustrating, because each time I have to go through all of the sequences again). I'm thinking this might be some sort of problem with playing very long videos, since otherwise I have no video problems at all. There is no error message associated with this problem, it just goes straight to desktop. I'm gonna try copying the movies to disk, and see if that works.

EDIT: Nope, that doesn't seem to have fixed it. It always seems to crash at about the same point though: Right when Diamond (I think it's Diamond, anyway) Weapon starts climbing out. One time it got slightly farther, but not by more than 5 seconds. Since copying it to hard drive didn't work... I'm thinking this is a game problem. Next thing I'm gonna try is running it in a lower resolution.

EDIT: Well, changing the resolution "fixed" it, but I'm not sure fi that's because it actually fixed the problem. When I changed resolutions it sped up the game alot, so maybe it just didn't have to run for as long (I never had a problem with short videos). Also,t he movies themselves naturally run in the smaller screen size, so that could be a part of it. Now that I've gotten past that movie, I'm gonna switch it back to my earlier settings (god the game looks awful with that resolution ) and hope it doesn't happen again. As for the codecs... since I couldn't install it from CD (for whatever reason... see the problems installing post) I'm not sure if that was the problem. D/led the upside-video patch, but that didn't seem to do anything anyway.

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Archive / Problem installing FF7

« on: 2004-05-14 23:30:29 »

Well, had my first and only error so far It appears I'll need the Chocobo Race patch after all.

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Archive / Problem installing FF7

« on: 2004-05-12 06:58:00 »

Everything is working in-game so far, no errors. Up to Shinra HQ

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Archive / Problem installing FF7

« on: 2004-05-12 01:07:21 »

Haha! Success! I had to do some fiddling with the registry file yous upplied, but now I've reached the New Game screen! Still haven't resolved my installation problem, but at elast this takes off some of the urgency.

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Archive / Problem installing FF7

« on: 2004-05-12 00:33:46 »

BTW, I copied the files to a folder, and I can get ff7config to work, but when I try to run the game, it goes to black screen then exits. I know I've seen this problem posted before, and I know that (maybe) the way to solve it is to use the video patch, but for some reason that didn't work, and I'm wonering if that might be because I don't have the correct registry entries.

Also, I found this, which could be significant, on Eidos support website. Not quite sure how to implement it in XP though:

Final Fantasy VII - Installation Problems - Errors -113, -105, -115 or -117
I get an error -113 or -105 when trying to install the game.


"Your CD-ROM drive and system is probably running the game in MS-DOS compatibility mode. You need to check Control Panels ??> System ??> Performance. Check File System it needs to be 32-bit. If it is 16 bit then you are running in DOS compatibility mode and need to contact your hardware manufacturer on how to get your system out of MS-DOS compatibility."

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Archive / Problem installing FF7

« on: 2004-05-12 00:21:34 »

Well, it's good to know that I have the right Virtual DOS Machine installed , but I'm still thinking that it might be part of the problem. After all, after running the install program, it loads up ntvdm.exe, and even after nothing happens (meaning that the system does not proceed any further than a waiting cursor which then reverts to normal) this program remains, until I end it manually. In fact, if I try to run the install program again, it will spawn another ntvdm.exe, with the same end result, except now I have 2 copies of the program open, doing nothing (using no CPU, but taking up RAM, obviously to keep the program open).

Another thing I've thought about: Installshield. I've been looking around, trying to figure out if the reason I can't install is because there is something wrong with my InstallShield driver, and I thought I'd finally found something that could fix it, but it didn't pan out. I found a section of the InstallShield support area that dealt with getting an updated version of the program. This page described various solutions for the different versions of the program that were not working, such as one entry which would say: For versions starting with 6: Do This. However, even though the list went from 6-9 and from 2.0 down, there was no entry describing the version that FF7 uses: 5.0. Is this the problem? This file verison is no longer supported? Or maybe it isn't, this might be a blind alley, since it might just mean that this version is supported by all versions of the program.

Again, I'm hoping someone out there has the registry file that someone else mentioned in this post, so I can sidestep the isntall program and do it manually.

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Archive / Problem installing FF7

« on: 2004-05-11 21:10:34 »

Something else that's interesting.... according to my Task Manager, whenever I try to run the install program it runs an NTVDM.exe, which is apparently the NT Virtual Mahcine program. I'm running WIndows XP... why is it trying to use an NT program? Maybe someone here know a little bit more about this.

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Archive / Problem installing FF7

« on: 2004-05-11 18:38:58 »

I have the same problem as this guy with installation, but I'm trying to get around it using the method described. However, the .reg file is no longer availible, so I can't create the right registry entries for the game. Also, I tried running the movie patch so I could get the right codecs, but that doesn't seem to work. Is there some sort of problem with old isntallation programs and Windows XP? That seems to be the core problem for my installation, anyway, and the patch file is an exe, too. It could just be that the program is looking for registry entries I don't have, so I'm hoping that someone can host the file so I can check it out.

Also, I used to have the game installed on my computer before, back when it was running Windows 98, but I uninstalled it a long time ago. So, the discs I have definately work, and it seems to be a problem with XP. I still have some residual registry entries left over from my old installation, and I don't want to delete them until i can get replacement entries (just in case I can modify existing ones to make it work).

Thanks alot, BTW, I've been looking all over the Net, and this is the one place that has actually suggested any useful solutions to the problem. I would've tried the manual install myself, but I wanted to get an outside opinion/outside help first.