FF7 Lock-up - Yuffie Battle

[jamesyfx]

Hi,

So heres whats going on. I've played up until the forested area near Junon, where I want to grab Yuffie. The game will just stop once I defeat her. The battle ends, I get the exp screens, etc. Then just black. I have to force the application to close to get away from it.

Otherwise the game is perfect. The bike thing was fast but I don't really care about fixing that >_>

Does this happen often? Any settings I should change?

I'm using a laptop.

Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)
Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM
160GB Hard Drive
Mobile Intel 965 Express (358MB reserved to it)
Conexant HD Audio

Drivers are all the newest, and ff7.exe (v1.02) is set in compatibility mode in 98/Me mode.

As for codecs and things, I just have the duck one. And standard DivX codecs.

Also I am using a proper version of the game.

Thanks.

[Trojax]

I think this was a common problem.  Your supposed to switch to software mode to get by this and then save after you get yuffie and enable Direct3d again.

[jamesyfx]

Thanks.

I'm keeping it in Software mode I think.. hardware mode has a few other issues (Such as some animated pre-rendered scenes not working properly, like the whirlwinds in the north cave.. they're always on full force in Direct3D mode for some reason).

Edit:

So it still won't work. The game still crashes. The battle ends, the music plays, then the music kinda stops and plays one note for a while, then it just stops. Lots of blackness..

How can I get through this bit? I want her in my party!