Final Fantasy VII Crash

[jamesyfx]

Hello.!

I've been through many copies of FF7 for the PlayStation in my time, but now I decided to go and buy FF7 for the PC .. It was a lot of money (£30.00).

Now,

I realise that it's not XP-Compatible, so I installed the 1.2 patch, and then updatred to the 1.4 one afterward.

The game works great, all the videos work, the visuals are fine, runs smoothly, sounds resonale, etc.

But sometimes, the game hangs when a battle starts (Usually in the area in the first Mako Reactor with the long staircase) - and i'm sent to the desktop. Strangely, the battle music still plays.

It doesnt crash before this, though. All the battles beforehand are fine.

I might have switched back to the desktop a few times (by accident.. I have a silly keyboard with a task switch button under the numpad), so ..

.. Any ideas.?

Thanks.

[dziugo]

Well... there are lots of solutions for XP problems in this forum (not always working though), so you can search for them.

Try software rendering mode and use Win98 (or 95) compatibility mode...

[jamesyfx]

I have searched a few times before I registered, and I kept coming to those patches which i've already installed..

.. I'll try software mode though. Thanks.

btw, I have a geforce fx5200 128mb if that helps..

Aah, well. I've tried software mode.

And it crashes just after I leave the area where Jesse stands behind a potion.

I've tried it in both modes - same crash.

[dziugo]

Did you install the audio driver from the "Install CD"? Also... do you use RivaTNT option in the FF7Config? All you can do, is testing various settings (not installing the audio driver, not using the nVidia fix etc.).

dziugo

[eraclea]

Just out of curiosity... You don't mean Animevamps 1.04 Patch?

If you use it, please read the Great FF7 FAQ (one of the Stickies)... 1.02 with Nvidia Mode + Riva TNT should work... No need for 1.04, which is able to cause additional problems... (at least on my installation it did ^^ yeah, those bad old 1.04 times...)

[Zack]

unistall the 1.4 patch it causes several problems and is a rip off of other people's work

[Katana]

I might have switched back to the desktop a few times (by accident.. I have a silly keyboard with a task switch button under the numpad), so ..

There is also a bug when switching to windows and back ingame, the game crashes after a few battles, so avoid going to windows while the game is running.

[corpse]

This method has fixed some similar crashes. Get the 1.02 update but only update the ff7config.exe. Leave the ff7.exe as the one suppiled by the origianl disk.

[jamesyfx]

Thanks for all your responses.

Yes, I had AnimeVamps patch installed. It was the first result I got to when searching "Final Fantasy VII XP" in google.

I will try updating ff7config.exe only, and Riva TNT checked.

Lets see what happens.

Edit:

Thank you. I've gotten through where it usually crashes, so I suspect that it's all fixed..

Edit2:

Uh, maybe not. The video doesnt play for when the reactor is about to explode (Cloud and Jesse are just sat together in the corner - everything else is black, and the alarm sound is just playing) - the game doesnt crash, it's just nothing else happens.

[EmperorSteele]

Try copying your movies to your hard drive =)

[corpse]

also if you get rivatuna from guru3d.com you can enable 8 bit textures under  the direct3d settings. This means you nolonger need to tick riva or tnt settings.

corpse

[jamesyfx]

Hmm. I've tried that Rivatuner, and 8 bit textures was already checked..

Anyway, I've just copied all the movies to my hard drive, and I'll see if thats fixed my problem.

Thanks.

[James Pond]

Theres a 1.4 Patch?!


Or is that the P.O.S AnimeVamp patch?

[jamesyfx]

Yeah, that was the AnimeVamp patch.

And I'm afraid the screen still goes black, even after moving the movies onto my hard drive.

I've checked the movie file in winamp, too. And that plays fine.. so I'm not sure why it's not working..

Edit:

It's fine now. Strange things happened.!

I have to use it in software mode, but for some weird reason - 320x240 is greyed out.. for everything. Oh well.