Major Error While In The First Battle

[brainchyld]

Hi, Sorry if this is a repeated thread, i have been searching for hours and i still can't find my answer.

i have a radeon 7000 video card and im running windows xp, when im in the first battle the enemy is a pyramid and it says error and a whole bunch of stuff at the top. In my ff7 config file after it tests, the 8-bit paletted textures fails everytime. i tried everything i know, and the xp patch won't work it says its not installed, can someone please help me... i just want to play the game    -_-

[Aaron]

Did you try using the 1.02 patch, with the "nVidia" and "TNT" boxes checked?

[Threesixty]

Sound like a bad disk.

The TNT patch is for the 8bit fail thing.... But I don't think a failed 8bit pallet would give you those type of errors. Although I guess I could be wrong, my experence is only with G2 cards.

a missing 8bit pallet used to just gives you  black backgrounds on G2 cards (characters would be on a black screen...no background scenery). That is, until you used the TNT patch. But that's a thing of the past on the Nivida's drivers. They fixed their 8 bit pallet on their drivers. I dont' know about ATI's.

But I've heard about that type of crash before....and it was a bad disk. I can't remember if it was a bad install disk, or a game disk..... it was one of the two, but on a Geforce card....

[ficedula]

I have a Radeon 7000, and while the drivers don't support paletted textures at all, I do remember getting it working absolutely fine with the NVidia 1.02 patch, and a bit of tweaking in the control panel. Not tried it in XP yet, though.

[brainchyld]

Haha, All i want to do is play the game....and now the graphics are fine...teh 8-bit still fails but it hasnt affected anything any more, but now there is no sound only background music...and i cant install soundfont that came with it, it says it can only run in windows 95 or sumthing...any ideas?  -_-

[Contra]

Okay. I had to install the soundfonts manually, through Creative AudioHQ (the Control Panel subpanel that comes with newer creative cards). And while I'm not acusing you of anything, I know the popular Warez version of FF7 doesn't come with sound effects. Again, not accusing you, this just reminded me... also... isn't that battle the 'Sumimasen!' Location, accessable through Qhimm's Jenova?

[brainchyld]

umm it did come with the soundfonts...it just didnt work cuz i have xp it says this installation is for windows 95 only then it says insufficient memory, but any clue on how i could change this? oh and everything works fine, except for the sounds...wen i test it in config it works fine too but once i get in the game, no sound only music, and in my data/sounds directory both files audio.fmt and audio.dat are o bytes...i just need a place to get the full files for them....