I haven't been successful at installing the mods to my Steam version of FF7.
I followed the instructions on the first page of the first poster of this thread, starting at:
"NOTE: Be careful not to install with Steam inside a system folder, such as Program Files or Program Files (x86)."
So I installed FF7 on my "G:\" hard drive into a folder called "Games" at the root level of this drive, so it looks like this: "G:\Games\SteamApps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII"
I download the FF7 empty ISO and mounted it with a virtual drive.
Then I followed the first step which was:
"Step 1: Read, download, and run the latest version of FF7 Game Converter."
I ran the game converter exe as "Run as administrator" by right clicking the exe and clicking that option.
The command line interface (CMD) window runs and prints out my windows OS version and it's bit type, which is windows 7 64-bit.
It shows where it found a reference to the FF7 installation, but since I reinstalled FF7 from the seam default directory (C:\Program Files\Steam\...) to the current "G:\" drive I installed it to, the Game Converter prints out the old directory is the place where FF7 is installed.
I inputted "G:\Games\SteamApps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII" as the location since that's what the Game Converter prompt tells me to do if the tool does not find the correct FF7 installation directory.
The CMD window just hangs, since it looked like it was doing nothing for a long time, I let the Game Converter do its thing overnight and when I came back to the PC the CMD window just had a prompt that said: "Removed CompatFlags from "ff7config.exe"" over and over with a question prompt of "REG DELETE Y/N?" right after the previous message, but I couldn't type in the CMD window at all. I decided to kill the process by pressing "ctrl+c".
I tried the Game Converter as my user account, and not administrator. Same symptoms as described above happens.
I tried entering "G:\Games\SteamApps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII" without the quotation marks, still the same behavior.
I notice that while the Game Converter is running, a "find.exe" process is running, I assume this is searching for FF7 installation files and registry keys and might be the cause of my problem due to my odd PC setup (more than the normal HDD of common PC setup).
I also notice that the Game Converter will output "can't access directory", but that's because its trying to access the directory of "System Volume Information" for each drive, and is a hidden protected directory.
Any suggestion would be helpful.
My system specs are:
Windows 7 64-bit SP1 + all the updates currently, Disabled UAC since day one of windows installation.
Intel I7 920 stock speed.
12 GB DDR3
Nvidia 650Ti
Asus AC Wi-Fi NIC
1 real physical DVD-RW drive (D:\)
1 virtual drive (P:\)
Multiple hard drives:
C:\ (Samsung 830 256GB, only Windows OS and some games that I want to boot up quickly, 30 GB free).
E:\ (1TB Western Digital Black Edition, used for installation of programs and misc files)
G:\ (1TB Samsung, multimedia files and where I installed FF7)
and 8 other HDD.