FF7 won't start since installing Windows 7 SP1

[purple.platypus]

Does anyone know if the Windows 7 SP that came out this week changes anything that's relevant to running FF7?

I have been playing FF7 with a bunch of mods (Aali's driver, PRP, Avalanche, Reasonable Difficulty, FF7music, possibly one or two others I'm forgetting), and it worked fine until now. But tonight it's just refusing to open for me. There is no error message, it just opens and immediately closes.

I can't think of anything potentially relevant that's changed since I last successfully ran it except for routine updates, most obviously the aforementioned service pack.

(EDIT: I realized I also installed a bunch of Windows Live crap I'll probably never use anyway. But I uninstalled it and it made no difference.)

[sl1982]

Runn FF7config again and reset your sound driver. That may help.

[purple.platypus]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help. Same result, or glaring lack thereof, as before  .

[sl1982]

Can i see the contents of your app.log?

[purple.platypus]

Sure, no problem, and thanks for being willing to have a look at it.

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.9b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 5670 4.1.10524 Compatibility Profile Context
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1024x768, output resolution 1024x768, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Shader limits: varying 128, vert uniform 16384, frag uniform 16384
INFO: vertex shader compile log: Vertex shader was successfully compiled to run on hardware.

INFO: fragment shader compile log: Fragment shader was successfully compiled to run on hardware.

INFO: main program link log: Vertex shader(s) linked, fragment shader(s) linked.

INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...

[sl1982]

Yup its a sound problem. Go to the sound tab in FF7 config and try changing to a different audio device.

[purple.platypus]

I've tried both the options it gives me there, neither works. (It was, however, blank when this process started.)

[sl1982]

perhaps try a reboot and then run the config again, make sure you run as administrator. other then that i do not know how to fix your problem, even though i know what it is.

[purple.platypus]

That did it! Running as admin seemed to work, enabling the change to the sound settings to stick, which I guess it wasn't doing before.

[yarLson]

dude service pack 1 has been out for quite some time. just fyi haha