Can I improve FF7's performance on an ATI mobility Radeon 9000 IGP?

[Dragus]

Hey guys, ive seen these wonderfull ways to improve ff7, but it seems im not good at doing it.

I have hp laptop with 3.2 ghz processor, 512 Ram, and ATI mobility radeon 9000 IGP  chipset.

After installing ff7, using 1.02 patch, installing "ff7_opengl-0.7.11b" (and a laptop keyboard patch) i never seem to get the game to work fully. If i were to pick 1200X800 or less i wont play the intro movies and will get me into unmodified start meniu (with new    game and continoue options). I have tried using team avalanche's graphic overhaul low res and then the while starting the game,  a message poped out, saying "no useful indirect path found. check APP for more information". I did check it and check it and thats what was written in it:

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGPRADEON 9100 IGP DDR x86/SSE2 1.3.4276 WinXP Release
INFO: No OpenGL 2.0 support detected, shaders won't be available
INFO: VBO not supported
INFO: PBO not supported
INFO: Subtractive blending not supported
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: NPOT textures not supported
INFO: Max texture size: 2048x2048
INFO: Number of texture units: 6
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 800x600, output resolution 800x600, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: No NPOT texture support
ERROR: init_indirect failed, scaling and postprocessing will be disabled
INFO: internal resolution clamped to 800x600
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: No shaders, codecs with YUV output will be slow.
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 SW Synth, mid=1, pid=102,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files\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: E:\FF7\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
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

So my question would be, is there a posibility to improve ff7's graphics on my pc, and if yes, how could i do it?

[sl1982]

Those onboard graphics are very outdated. Since they will not do any scaling whatsover you may have to run the game in 640x480. You could try 1280x960 and see if that works, but i doubt it.

[Dragus]

Yeah, but i was wondering if it was possible to apply at least some mods to improve the visuals of the game, while on the pc with the stats i mentioned before

[jinkazama2k7]

looking for mods? go here: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=12008.0

[Dragus]

Okay, so ive reinstalled the game,then i used:
1. 1.02 official patch
2. aali's custom driver
3. laptop keyboard patch

Now, every time i start from my save(first possible location ) whenever i try to make progress in the game or enter the meniu, the view hangs and music seems to slow down about 20 times, but still plays. I cannot do anything in that state, including alt+ctrl+delete or any combos to exit that state, and have to restart the pc (my laptop has windows xp btw).
So can anyone tell me where the problem hides, and HOW could i solve it?

[Livesey]

That's an old onboard? on my PC I'm running an ATI Radeon 1200 and it runs "Avalanche low res" just fine, Not sure how relevant this information is seeing as it's not an onboard but well there's my 2 cents, hope it helps... But it probably wont. =P

I've not heard anything about the music hanging.. but maybe some of the music files are corrupt..? Or something like that, you might try installing ff7 music and seeing if that helps at all.

[Dragus]

Well thanks for ur answer man, but i was just trying to describe the current cituation then i worte bout the music, couse the main prob still remains that game hangs every time i go in fight or in to the "in game" meniu

[Livesey]

Stupid question but have you tried fiddling around with the graphic settings in aali driver? or changing the audio settings?