I have never had a problem with any other program.
Just checked all my drivers, every single one of them was up to date except the MS software (made no difference).
I ran the anti-spyware and anti-virus. Computer came back clean, tried afterwards, still nothing
I guess I need to buy some external HDD and attempt to move 1.8TB of work onto them. Think it will take a few days though.
EDIT:
Now I know my computer hates me. After backing up everything, reinstalling windows and my programs it, including FF8 . I still get the same problem with FF8. No problems with anything else though.\
EDIT2:
Tried it all again, unless someone has another solution I will have to buy an old computer and just run it off that. Seems kind of wasteful to me but I really want to play this game on the PC.