A Black Screen Error (have tried the sticky solutions)

[Termin8tor]

Alright I don't mean to sound ignorant or like an idiot by posting this as I realize a lot of people have suffered this same problem, I just installed final fantasy 7 on my windows XP (sp2) rig which has an ati radeon 9800XT may I add; and I seem to get a blackscreen when I try to load the game.

Now to remedy this problem I have tried installing the correct codecs as I figured the problem is related to the AVI files that final fantasy 7 uses.
I think that this may be the problem as when the game starts I can hear the eidos theme music playing but I cannot see the eidos logo (screen remains blank), after the theme music has played the game completely freezes and locks out my computer (ctrl+alt+delete doesn't work either).

I can view the in-game avi files on my final fantasy 7 disks with windows media player and winamp so I don't believe the problem is codec related.

I have also tried the official eidos 1.02 english patch as that is the version of final fantasy 7; I use to no avail.
I have trawled through this forum in search of a solution to this problem and the same result seems to turn up : install 1.02; or make sure the correct codecs are installed however neither has rectified the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thankyou in advance!

[Otokoshi]

Try changing the compatablilty settings for FF7 to Win98/ME or Win95.  If that doesn't work try turning off AA.

[Landarma]

There are several threads about such movie issue.  If you have ffdshow installed, you should set the codec to disable truemotion format decoding.

[Termin8tor]

Ah, Landarma thanks for that piece of information thats what did the trick, it turns out I needed truemotion disabled and as a consequence I was able to search around and find that k-lite codec pack has a configuration utility to sort that out, thank's a million.
Right now that i've done that it's time for me to get modding!

[vizcsap]

Hi!
I have a same card and a same problem but I don't have ffdshow. Any idea?

[miracle.flame]

get one. 




EDIT: No, seriously.    Try to read all threads at the first page...you'll know to get around. 

[vizcsap]

THX,good idea