Black Screen - not working

[mcpaper]

I have just installed it and whenever I want to play I click on the exe.

I see a black screen, I press esc and suprisingly it takes me to the START screen.

I click newgame but then thats it, nothing. The stars dont show up it just stays black. 

Please help, any ideas?

 - thanks


!!! Idea: I tried to play the movies from the disk and it says I am missing a codec? Any idea people!

[Alhexx]

First:
You should at least say what game you are talking about.
(Well, taking a look at your problem description, and thinking about that I had the same problem, too, I guess you're talking about FF7 )

Second:
Yes, you are missing a codec.
The reason why the screen stays black when you start the game is that your pc is not able to play the Square­® intro. The reason why it stays black after selecting "New Game" is that you pc is not able to play the game intro video.

Unfortunately, I don't remember which codec you should install...
Use the search function and search for "codec".
Good luck.

 - Alhexx

 - Edit -
At least I see that you are able to use the button... 

[mcpaper]

Well I looked around on other forums and I ended up deleting a codec by instruction, instantly after that I installed the 1.4 patch (xp)

Everything seems to work, now the problem is trying to install the High Resolution patch

I patch correctly but when I go into the game it stays at the default.

[Covarr]

No! No! No! No! No! No!
NEVER INSTALL THE 1.4 PATCH!

[mcpaper]

Update:

Ive installed the 1.2 patch - Resolution - and all works fine only.

That I crash when a battle starts.

[Covarr]

Have you pressed Alt+Tab before the battle? There is a bug that causes battles to crash if you've alt+tab'd at any point while running FF7. Somebody here has a patch for it, but I don't know where.

[mcpaper]

Hmm I may have yes. Well Im certain it is not all the time, maybe that was just a one of occerunce.

[Borde]

Are you already running it under win95 compatibility mode?