Author Topic: Final Fantasy 7 pc problems with windows xp. Help (Read 8370 times)

Soldier · « **on:** 2005-11-13 14:50:07 »

It won't play any of the movie files, I did install the movie player that plays final fantasy 7 movies and it doesn't do any thing. I just get a black screen when I start up final fantasy 7 and when I press enter it goes to the start screen, but it won't let me play any of the movies. My copy of final fantasy 7 is legit before anyone ask me this question, so can someone please help me out. Thanks

Computer Specs:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
3500+ 2.19ghz, it says I only have 896mb or ram but my computer is suppose to have atleast 1 gig of ram... Did someone rip me off? wtf??

And my graphics card is ATI RADEON Xpress 200 Series

I tried windows xp patch, didn't do anything at all. What a waste of a patch. And someone told me to try the upsidedown patch and that didn't do anything, the screen is still black.

Soldier · « **Reply #1 on:** 2005-11-13 21:44:37 »

anyone? I really want to play final fantasy 7 on my new computer. HELPPPPPPPPP ME

halkun · « **Reply #2 on:** 2005-11-13 21:50:47 »

1) Don't double post.

2) It's a known problem that FF7PC doesn't run in XP. Your best bet is going to game tweaking, there are patches there....

Moving there...

Tiesto · « **Reply #3 on:** 2005-11-13 22:10:22 »

Ok, I have a way for your game to run bug free.

First off you will need microsoft virtual pc 2004:
http://www.microsoft.com/PRODUCTS/info/product.aspx?view=22&pcid=ba9e68ed-9571-4d10-82d2-b51828c33297&type=ovr

Then you will need an old copy of win98se, I'm sure all of us have an old copy laying around somewhere.

Just go through all the motions of installing VPC on your computer and then giving all the right settings to initially setup your virtual hard drive in the program. Intall win98se and then proceed to install your game.

If you have several older games as I do it is worth shelling out the cash for this. It does work and it also works fine with games I've tested that use direct x.

Hope this helps

Aaron · « **Reply #4 on:** 2005-11-13 22:29:04 »

Virtual PC is certainly a possible solution to a lot of problems. However, depending on your computer, it my be slow... Also, you do not get Direct3D accelleration (i.e., you must use software rendering to play the game).

Do you have any codec packs or stuff like that installed? Try getting rid of them and then reinstalling the upside-down movie patch.

Soldier · « **Reply #5 on:** 2005-11-14 03:42:03 »

Whats all this crap I was hearing about people playing final fantasy 7 on windows xp? Is that bullshit or something?

Tiesto · « **Reply #6 on:** 2005-11-14 06:46:40 »

No. It is poss, but since I recently upgraded to an AMD 64 3700+ my copy of FF7 has had trouble running. Working fine under virtual PC tho.

James Pond · « **Reply #7 on:** 2005-11-14 06:54:29 »

Woth XP it works, its just buggy as hell.

Shame all the bugs will be fan recitfied really.

At least it gives us a better veiw into how the game works.

cmay119 · « **Reply #8 on:** 2005-11-22 06:49:14 »

I had problems at first getting it to run on XP Pro, but I pretty much resolved all the issues with the following steps:

1. First in your Video drivers make sure Anti-Aliasing is either disabled or is application controlled.
2. Install game > Apply Riva Hardware Patch 1.02 > Chocobo Patch > Upside-Down movie patch
3. Pull the movies off the CD to the harddrive in whichever folder you like but I usually put the movies in the FF7 Folder in a sub-folder called Movies.
Do a registry edit for the movies by following this right-up Courtesy of qhimm.com member Emperor Steele: www.ff7-universe.com and then click the download link on the left side of the page. Scroll all the way to the bottom to the link labeled "Play FMV's from your Harddrive". Playing the movies from the harddrive made them play A LOT Smoother for me.

4. Now that you have Final Fantasy 7 installed, find the FF7.exe in the directory where you installed FF7, right-click > Properties > and in the Properties dialogue box there should be a setting labeled "Compatibility Mode". Select either Windows 98 or 95.

Now run Final Fantasy 7 from the FF7.exe and you should first get a configuration prompt. Check the box for using Hardware acceleration and then select the radio button corresponding to Riva graphics cards (not TNT). This will enable hardware accelaration, and you should be good to go from there.

Hope that resolves your issue. Good luck