FF7 problems crashing at first encounter

[Astaldoath]

my game crashes as soon as its about to enter the battle with the two MP's it doesnt go back to the desktop, it just tweaks out and i get a black screen and i can see my mouse pointer. I did the riva patch and only used the config.exe not the ff7.exe and im running it in D3D but dont have Nvidia tnt checked because if i do i fail 8 bit palette textures. Im using the latest nvidia drivers and my card is a geforce 4 ti4800. Can someone try to help me out?

[Zack]

you have to copy the ff7.exe to game directory as well.
This is a common problem but you shld provide system specs such as what version of windows you are using

[Niai]

Are you using XP? I remember having that problem when I was running the demo, and I used the compatability wizard to make the game run in Windows 98 mode. Then it was fine.

[Astaldoath]

yes, im using windows xp

p4 2.4ghz
intel 845 chipset on the mobo
geforce 4 ti 4800
sound blaster live xgamer

Ill try running it under 98 mode, if not i may make a dual boot system.

Well 98 mode dont work, It disables my game pad. I used the exe from the riva patch this time, still didnt work. Any other ideas?

[Zack]

I used to have this problem back with windows 98. It ended up being a DirectX graphics driver problem but apart from that i dunno