help, please help

[grospensu]

Now I'm very despaired, I've tried all patches you said on your site... But I always get a blank screen when I start ff7...

if I play a movie on my media players, it said : The Windows Media reader met an unknown error.  That can occur when another program or a component of the operating system encounters a problem of which it does not indicate nature to the reader.

I tried ff7betap1, I 've also tried to uninstall all my codec before installing this patches, nothing happen, only the damn blank screen, please someone help me!

[bulk_4me]

Reinstall the DUCK codec.

[Aaron]

ff7betap1 is the duck codec.
Can you give us your system specs?  Have you tried software rendering?

[grospensu]

I reinstalled the duck codec and nothing happen...


my computer is : Celeron 2.6ghz , 224 mo (RAM)

my videocard is: SiS 951 rev 00 32mb

I run into windows XP service pack 2...

please help me

[Zack]

have you tried software rendering?

[grospensu]

what is software rendering???

[Aaron]

Look in FF7Config, on the graphics tab...
I actually doubt that it will fix anything now, I think it's some kind of codec problem.

[grospensu]

I tried software rendering... nothing changed...

what should I do???

[Zack]

have you tried uninstalling other codecs which reside on your system? Might be a conflict

[grospensu]

I had uninstalled all my codec... and it still don't work... I think I bought this game for nothing...

[DarkestDream]

Get WinAmp, it a free media player, and see what happen

[grospensu]

Ok I tried that, when I open a video files from final fantasy vii with winamp, a  video windows open, after 3 seconds, the video windows close... I can't see the video with winamp :weep:

[Zack]

try to open the videos on another pc to make sure there isn't a problem with the cds

[DarkestDream]

then there will be one thing that could work but it require editing the registry.

go to this site, http://ff7-universe.com/ then click on downloads on the left side, then look for "PLAY FMVS OFF YOUR HARD DRIVE" then click on that.

and make sure you back up your registry before modify it. and read on the document. this might work

[Aaron]

I'm pretty sure that if he can't play the movies off of the CD in a media player, playing them off the hard drive won't make any difference.  To me, it sounds very much like a codec problem, but if installing the upside-down movie patch and removing extra codecs / codec packs didn't help, I don't know if there's much hope without reinstalling Windows.

[grospensu]

I think I will just buy an old computer who works with windows 95...

[Fenrir]

I had this problem and tried every (literally EVERY) solution for this available on the interweb.  I found that the solution for the problem did not lie in codecs, not in patches, and not in any setting changes.  The solution that fixed my problem with the FMV's was with a simple re-installation of the YAMAHA SoftSynthesizer S-YXG70.  Thats it!!! Thats all I had to do!  And just to make it clear, after each and every solution applied I tried to view the fmv's through the game, through windows media player (current version 11), via constant switch between HDD and CD through regedit all the while triple checking the directory paths and re-installing the game(over and over and over and over and....).  Then as i was about to give up, I decided to not re-install the game, not directshow, and not direct x(supplied version and current version), but YAMAHA SoftSynthesizer S-YXG70.  I made sure it wasn't working before I re-installed it, so after I knew that that could be the only possible factor in the entirety of the ordeal that would solve this problem for me.

[Terid__K]

EDIT: Nevermind.

[Rufus95]

i used to have that problem i don't know how
i fixed it.