Good evening, new member.
To keep a long explination short, I played FFVIII, but couldn't play it long, I have no console, only a computer right now, college and all puts a damper on obtaining a new system (especially since my old PS2 decided to eat up 2 of my games). I got my hands on the game and for some odd reason can only play it in what can literally be called the worst graphics ever. I saw this place in a link on a forum I was looking up.
The game works fine, no black blocks or anything, but I have a question about this 'configurator. It runs on CCC, well as it turns out my computer absolutely hates CCC. For some reason (even if I download the newest driver) it refuses to 'find any new hardware'. Regardless of this, the chip I have in (VisionTek X1300) works on my other games. It just refuses CCC, once I actually got it to install correctly but everytime I tried to open it, it suddenly crashed. I uninstalled it and tried to install a recent driver and it still wouldn't function. So I'm at a loss and am still working on that... but in the mean time, is there a way to get this to function without the CCC function to turn on AA?
Also, when I installed this program (or rather... attempted to) it kept saying 'application failed due to "such and such" try running FF8.EXE'. When I tried an alternative method to getting it to work, I got as beforementioned the 'black screen of death' again on my Windows Vista. Which led me to remove the files from the '/Game' file that made the game work, to the main folder in order to 'force' it to work without the annoying pop-up. Sort of an 'damned it you do, damned if you don't' situation.
I like FFVIII and would have adhored it even more if I could get better graphics on it, or even using that one program to play it in higher resolution (that one also failed) so I'm hoping there's a work-around for this. If there is any help I can provide in finding this work-around for the program and 'black screen of death' let me know. I'm still tinkering and trying to find alternative methods to getting it to work, and if I do, I'll post it here.
Until then, keep up the good work.
~ Oni