Crash in Timber on FF8

[Satoh]

I crash like clockwork whenever I get to President Deling's broadcast at the Timber TV station.

I have an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 onboard graphics chipset. (Laptop)

I have managed to almost get passed it by changing the settings and using different launchers, but no matter how far I get through it, I always crash before I can leave Timber, or save anywhere...

The farthest I have gotten is just before Seifer follows Sorceress Edea into the portal. Most often, I only get to the President's speech, and crash just before Seifer appears.

I don't remember what settings allowed me to get farther, as I have attempted to get passed this point more than 30 times now...

does anyone know what the problem is or how I can skip this scene?

[Terid__K]

Did you update the executable to v1.2? That happened to me all the time when I was playing v1.0.

[Satoh]

As far as I understood it I did... all I had to do was drop in a new DLL and replace the FF8.EXE right? (or something similar also ending with replacing the EXE...)

I did that and I've been using it since... in fact I had the crash issue before and after the update... I'll try updating it again just in case...

But assuming the update was done correctly are there any other possibilities?

Thanks for the reply, also.

[Terid__K]

Didn't you install the EAX package that comes with it? If not, then just turn EAX off (It's not very good in this game anyways.)

Maybe your save file is corrupted. Are you using an old save from back when you were playing 1.0?