Problems with the movies

[Soukishuku]

I was just wondering why does my comp crashes every time i get to a movie.  For some reason even the movie at the begin of the game doesn't work.  Is there a way to fix this problem or skip the movies all together. Oh, ya, none of the players: Divx, Winamp, windows medai player can run the movie directly from the CD itself.  This never happen to me until i got to cosma canyon, but lucky i got some one to play past that part.  Unfortunaly im at rocket town the place where you meet CID and there a movie.

[Rubicant_II]

Do you think you installed something that may have screwed it up? I would suggest installing the duck truemotion package that is available on the eidos support page, or else you can get it from my site. After installing that you will probably be able to view the movies in windows media player, and I'm hoping it'll fix everything for you. In case you're wondering what duck truemotion even is, I have a simple way to explain it. It's the video codec they used for the ff7 movies....and that's all you can really say about it. It's a decent codec, although a little dithered.

By the way, what OS are you running?

[Soukishuku]

For some reason when i finshed downloading the file and installed the file there an error message that pops up.  It one of those Window XP message that ask would you like to send this error.  Well the file can't be installed.  Oh ya i have windows Xp professional if that make any differance.

[Aaron]

Maybe you could tell us what the error message was when you tried to install the duck truemotion package?

[Soukishuku]

Well there no message exactly its a pop up after i run it.  When the installation bar reaches to 100% the message come up.  It says that the "Installshield Engine has encouter a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."  It also ask if i like to send this error report.  And .......well that all there is.  I hope there is a way to fix this movie problem.

[Soukishuku]

Im still wondering how do i get the movies to work properly.  Even when i start a new game the beginning intro doesn't work.

[Rubicant_II]

I'll give you an alternate version of the package...not sure if it'll work or even fix it. You can get that here.

Are you on winxp? Got any of the service packs?

[Soukishuku]

Not again the file still won't work......................sigh...................there is got to be a way to fix this and i did download the service package but that didn't do much

[Rubicant_II]

So the file above won't run, either? Well, my server was down all yesterday because of stupid complications.

[Soukishuku]

Hope your server is back to normal.
Does anyone have the intro of the game at the begining where you start a new game freeze.  For some reason i can't start a new game because of this and i think this might be the same reason why all the other movies aren't working.  The movies use to work when i first installed the game, but as you can see now it mess up and who knows why.

[Soukishuku]

I think got another problem ith this game.  Now i can't even go into the game at all.   By that I mean i can't laod my save game.  I hate window Xp professional now...................................Why won't it Work!!!!!!

[Rubicant]

Huh..strange. What do you think happened to cause it to suddenly stop working? Just a simple driver update can change ff7's ability to run in windows xp.

Also, what patches (if any) do you have on your ff7.exe as of now? Do you have...

Version 1.02
Any cetra patches (32-bit, ff7music)
The Chocobo Patch
Any other miscellaneous xp patch

And..did you turn on any of the compatability modes?

[Sephiroth2000]

Hey, Rubicant is back! I thought you had ditched that username for Rubicant II...

Back on topic:

Try downloading my Legitimate XP Patch that does the same stuff as the XP Patch(official) apart from not work.. Hope that helps, cos i made it specially for you. I waste time doing that stuff, you know...

[mr.bridge]

Lol Seph, I saw that and got excited.  Then the link didn't work =C

[Sephiroth2000]

I hate my server...it's gone and ditched every link to my site. sorry for raising your hopes, as soon as my server is up again, i will let u know. I have a bone to pick with them...