Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8 [v.1-.7.6]

[pyrozen]

sometimes my game will crash when first entering the worldmap immediately after loading a saved game.  Not sure what causes it, since the APP.log never tells me much.  If i restart and reload, everything works fine though.  It's probably like a 1/50 chance of it happening, and it only occurs after many consecutive starts and closings due to me checking textures.

[death_gigas]

i have installed ur driver into my computer but i only have this app.log     


INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English

[Pikkuhippi]

Billy jean: Do you have VC++ Redistributable 2005 and 2008 installed? Don't know if it will give error when missing. But its still worth a try..

[death_gigas]

i dont have ,,,, but i also uses ultima edtion ,,,,, is it okay..?..

[Kudistos Megistos]

i dont have ,,,, but i also uses ultima edtion ,,,,, is it okay..?..

No. Bad. Naughty.

Ultima edition is not supported here.

[drfeelgud88]

i dont have ,,,, but i also uses ultima edtion ,,,,, is it okay..?..

Whoa!! Ultima Edition is a piece of #@$&! Better off buying your own game of FF7 and then we can help you.  

[Kudistos Megistos]

i dont have ,,,, but i also uses ultima edtion ,,,,, is it okay..?..

Whoa!! Ultima Edition is a piece of #@$&! Better off buying your own game of FF7 and then we can help you. 

Wow, I just realised that the bloke I told off for asking for help with the Ultima edition is the one who changes his name and never uses the search function

Methinks death_gigas  might not last much longer here...

[drfeelgud88]

i dont have ,,,, but i also uses ultima edtion ,,,,, is it okay..?..

Whoa!! Ultima Edition is a piece of #@$&! Better off buying your own game of FF7 and then we can help you. 

Wow, I just realised that the bloke I told off for asking for help with the Ultima edition is the one who changes his name and never uses the search function

Methinks death_gigas  might not last much longer here...

Yeah. Poor thing. I wish he would acquire some common sense.

[sl1982]

i dont have ,,,, but i also uses ultima edtion ,,,,, is it okay..?..

Whoa!! Ultima Edition is a piece of #@$&! Better off buying your own game of FF7 and then we can help you. 

Wow, I just realised that the bloke I told off for asking for help with the Ultima edition is the one who changes his name and never uses the search function

Methinks death_gigas  might not last much longer here...

Yeah. Poor thing. I wish he would acquire some common sense.

That's a precious commodity. They just don't hand that out to everyone you know.

[Covarr]

i dont have ,,,, but i also uses ultima edtion ,,,,, is it okay..?..

Whoa!! Ultima Edition is a piece of #@$&! Better off buying your own game of FF7 and then we can help you. 

Wow, I just realised that the bloke I told off for asking for help with the Ultima edition is the one who changes his name and never uses the search function

Methinks death_gigas  might not last much longer here...

Yeah. Poor thing. I wish he would acquire some common sense.

That's a precious commodity. They just don't hand that out to everyone you know.

Common sense doesn't need handed out, he can just pirate it.

[drfeelgud88]

Common sense doesn't need handed out, he can just pirate it.

Lol. Nice one. 

[ddmosho]

is there a way to make aali's custom drivers work in full screen or in 1280x1024? because right now my game only runs well in windowed mode 1280x960 and under. everytime i put it in full screen or in 1280x1024 i get black lines and backgrounds.

[Hellbringer616]

screen shot of what you mean by black lines and backgrounds

[drfeelgud88]

What happened here? I'm using this on my sis' computer, Windows XP.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2zhgy1roiwk
Certain sounds are low. For example, you can barely hear the pointer thing when you trying to select "New Game" or "Continue"

[sl1982]

Woohoo. Sweet Aali, you rock!

edit:

just tried this out and everything is black where the previous version worked fine. The game still runs as i can go past the intro video and scroll around in the main menu (i can tell by the sound)

here is the app log

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INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r19334, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 2.1.8544 Release
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x800, output resolution 1066x800, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Fragment shader(s) linked, vertex shader(s) linked.
 
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: c:\final fantasy vii\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
GLITCH: missing external texture: sibuki1_00.png
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: F:\FF7\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
INFO: F:\FF7\Movies\sqlogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x224, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 14.533333, frames: 218
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
SET VOLUME 5: 127
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE c:\final fantasy vii\save/save06.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE c:\final fantasy vii\save/save07.ff7
WM_CLOSE
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Field Quit
MIDI stop - OK
resetting MIDI driver volume - OK
UNINITIALIZE DD
ERROR: unhandled exception


[Aali]

Turns out I broke the indirect path.. Change resolution to an even multiple of 640x480 or turn off prevent_rounding_errors for now, a fix will be available very soon.

:EDIT:

Let's try that again, please redownload.

[Grimmy]

Overall improvements to transparency effects.
Alpha blending enabled for everything that doesn't already have a blending effect.
External texture cache added.
Fixed a crash that could happen when no suitable movie codec could be found.
Replacing the buster sword background in the main menu with an external texture will make it fullscreen.
Fixed a random crash that could happen when loading a 24-bit PNG file.
Changed external texture behavior w.r.t. palettes, if the PNG for a certain palette cannot be found, palette 0 will be tried instead. This should save some space on all those textures that don't really need different palettes.

Wow... I'm at a loss for words. Thank you.

[Snake2208]

hi!, i tried the latest ff7_opengl-0.7.2b.zip and folowed your instructions, unzip, put it on the ff7.exe folder and run the .reg file, when i open the game, i can hear the intro, noises, batlle fight, but i cant see anything!! i can only see a white screen!!

there it goes my system thingys and patches i added if it can help: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9174.0 (the spell patch is the fire,firaga names)

[sl1982]

Things looking good so far, going to require a few tweaks to the external textures. One other bug I noticed is when you Alt+F4 to close the program it crashes but does not create an crash.dmp and the app.log doesnt say anything either. Not a big deal but i thought u may want to know

[Snake2208]

yea, in the multiple times i opened and close ff7 to see if the white screen disappears, it crashed 2 times, but it isn a great deal tho...

[KnifeTheSky77]

I tried out the new driver and ran into some things
1. The highwind is now semi-transparent
2. Cloud is semi transparent on the world map (sometimes)
3. The menus and world map are much darker

The game crashed when I tried entering the cockpit whilst driving the highwind
Here is my crash.dmp
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=793CE1OZ
and my APP.log

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INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r19334, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2 3.1.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1440x900, output resolution 1200x900, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; rawvideo/null 364x353, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 0.066667, frames: 1
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\sqlogo.avi; mpeg4/mp3 640x480, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 247.788000, frames: 3717
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Avatar/yufi_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save03.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save05.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save07.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save09.ff7
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/desert/desert_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/farm/farm01_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/farm/farm02_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/forests/lostwd_e_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/beaches/shor_v_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/snow/snow_es_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/snow/snw_mte_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/snow/snw_mted_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/forests/wod-e2_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
stop_sound
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
MIDI cross fade: 71, time: 4
MIDI set volume trans: 15->127; step=4
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
MIDI play: 71
reading midi file: KITA.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
set music volume: 127
MIDI play: 47
reading midi file: HIKU.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
stop_sound
-=-=[END OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
Entering MAIN


[sl1982]

I tried out the new driver and ran into some things
1. The highwind is now semi-transparent
2. Cloud is semi transparent on the world map (sometimes)
3. The menus and world map are much darker

The game crashed when I tried entering the cockpit whilst driving the highwind
Here is my crash.dmp
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=793CE1OZ
and my APP.log

Code: [Select]

INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r19334, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2 3.1.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1440x900, output resolution 1200x900, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; rawvideo/null 364x353, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 0.066667, frames: 1
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\sqlogo.avi; mpeg4/mp3 640x480, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 247.788000, frames: 3717
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/Avatar/yufi_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save03.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save05.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save07.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save09.ff7
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/desert/desert_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/farm/farm01_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/farm/farm02_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/forests/lostwd_e_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/beaches/shor_v_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/snow/snow_es_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/snow/snw_mte_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/snow/snw_mted_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
INFO: 24-bit PNG loaded (C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/textures/WMRP/forests/wod-e2_00.png); this is slow, please convert to 32-bit
stop_sound
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
MIDI cross fade: 71, time: 4
MIDI set volume trans: 15->127; step=4
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
MIDI play: 71
reading midi file: KITA.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
set music volume: 127
MIDI play: 47
reading midi file: HIKU.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
stop_sound
-=-=[END OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
Entering MAIN


I wonder if that has something to do with WMRP (the transparency)

[death_gigas]

i accidentally   open the .fgd file into a new file  ,, how can i change it to it's original file?.....  and when i open it it says" the archive is either in  unknown format or damaged .... help plsss

[KnifeTheSky77]

i accidentally   open the .fgd file into a new file  ,, how can i change it to it's original file?.....  and when i open it it says" the archive is either in  unknown format or damaged .... help plsss

Has anyone REALLY been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

hohoho, I couldn't help myself. In all seriousness, i don't know what you are asking.
You could always just redownload the driver.

[death_gigas]

i changed the format of the file