FF7 bike crash?!

[queasyfeeling]

Hi!

I'm pretty sure the problem i have is new and i am really piss off by it..

well.. u see, i have a dell 8200 laptop running at 1.6Ghz with Sidestep technology, 256mb ram, a Geforce4 Go card with 32mb ram and 20gigs of space. at first i coudn't run the game at all as i got the black screen problem.. it was quickly solved when i install the directshow stuff that came with the game...

so then, the opening movies played fine... I also managed to kick the two guards butt.. but on the next screen, after the introduction of barret and immediately after he says: "hold [cancel] to run" or something like that, the game freezes.. i think it's because it's suppose to go into an FMV or something.. damn eidos..

anyways.... after checking with many of this sites forum post, i manage to get pass that by rolling back my geforce drivers.... SEPHIROTH!! HERE I COME!! :wicked:  or so i thought...

now, i'm stuck at the bike scene.. right after the cool FmV of cloud and gang getting into the vehicles.. my computer freezes.... WTH?!?!??   sigh..................

I tried running it in quarter screen mode, 320x240 mode, software rendering, installing the chocobo patch, installing the riva tnt patch and every other possible permutation of the above 'solutions'...

can anyone help?

ps: sorry for the long story... weekends are boring when u have no life and no games to play... sigh............

[Magus Spirit]

Well, I also had the problem of videos not working (except the introducion video). It was caused by a video codec conflict. So I uninstalled all video codecs that were not provided with Windows XP, and it solved the problem (some video codecs are know to cause conflicts with the TMV video codec). I don't know if it will solve your Bike crash problem though.

[queasyfeeling]

update====> just found out that  it's got something to do with the movie.. i tried playing the bike movie from cd and midway through the movie this error came up: A run-time error has occured. The  error number was 8004020B.

oh, btw.. i've installed the upside down patch too.. but playing it from wmp, everything is still upside down but not in the game...

hmm.. could copying the movies to my harddrive and renaming some other .avi as 'bike' would work?

but then again i really wanna watch the movies..

[queasyfeeling]

oops..  haha... magus... thanks... will try it now....

darn... codecs...  

[queasyfeeling]

hmm.. ok this is weird.. tried to remove all the codecs but they just keep poping back after i reopen the 'video codecs' thingy in device manager...

so.. eh heh heh..  how do i do it?

[ye-roon]

queasyfeeling

don't triple post, edit your posts.

Forum Rules. read them.

[EmperorSteele]

yo, yo YO

a), dont tripple post, B) it's NOT EVEN A MOVIE ISSUE, ITS A MINI GAME ISSUE!

mmm, all i can say is install directx 5 that came on the cd.  Yeah, win xp already has dX8 and i'm sure you have dX 9 anyway, but dX 5 might have a missing file or whatever it is you need.

Just in case, did you do a full install?  If so, grab one of your CDs (besides the install one) and copy high-us.lgp from the data\minigame\ directory and replace whatever version it is that you have (I -THINK- that's the bike minigame, but I'm not 100% certain).  The one on your hd may be corrupt.

If all else fails, You can send me your save ([email protected])and I'll get past it for you.  All you'll miss is a boss fight, some babble about getting Sephiroth, and choosing which 2 party members to take to Kalm, as I'm sure you know.

[queasyfeeling]

whoops....   heh.. sorry man..

anyways.. thanks steele for the offer.. but i managed to work through the problem by renaming the opening sequence as "bike.avi"..   haha... the bike minigame ran just fine (except it's hyper fast... of course)..

hmmm...well, there's another way to work through one of the gazillion bugs in ff7..

[Darkdevil]

whoops....   heh.. sorry man..

anyways.. thanks steele for the offer.. but i managed to work through the problem by renaming the opening sequence as "bike.avi"..   haha... the bike minigame ran just fine (except it's hyper fast... of course)..

hmmm...well, there's another way to work through one of the gazillion bugs in ff7..

Erm..If you rename it to a .AVI file,  How does FF7 still accept them?  
Plus, If you simply rename the extension in win XP I find it fucks the file....How exactly have you done this?...FF7 is more than picky when it comes to filenames and extentions in my experiance....

[queasyfeeling]

my bad..

i merely renamed 'open' to 'bike' did not change the extensions at all..

[Relf]

Would it get you past other vid crashes?

[queasyfeeling]

hmmm... it should be able to. but soo far, the only video that crashed on me was that one.

still at disk 1 now.. will get back to u one tt one..

[Dreakon]

So it was a corrupt video file?  That seems wierd

1) Dont ever downgrade to DirectX 5 unless absolutely nessesary.  The newer Direct X's work with older games and downgrading is much more of a hassle then it is worth.

2) It'd probably be a good idea to take all the files off the CD and put them in their appropriate places in your FF7 folder.  Then make the game redirect to them on your hard drive instead of the CD.  It just ensures that they will run right.

If you would like more info, post back asking for it

[Emerald Weapon]

I once had problems with movies too, and it was simply because the cd was damaged, and so it couldn't read the movie, which caused the game to crash.

This is prolly in your case not the case, but you could just check, right?

If it is, ask a friend to lend his cd and just put it in, watch the FMV and continue with your own disc (I did it this way)
Or, try to download the FMV somewhere, or try and skip it. (use another save after the FMV, sucks I know)

Good luck with it.