Hi all
Recently decided that i wanted to play Final Fantasy 8 after not playing it for some time and got it installed with no hassles, bot hardware and software graphics mode working fine. I did have an issue with the game when i started it up it would go back to the desktop. It would'nt quit, it would sit in the taskbar but i could not get into it. This was solved by removing the cccp codec pack i had installed.
The first time i installed it the music would work, both with the totally unpatched and patched game and with the updated dls and svg files. However because of the issue I had as described above, i uninstalled and reinstalled it several times in an attempt to get it to work. Somewhere along the line the music stopped playing completely. Now, everytime i use FF8 configurator to attempt to play the music, whether it is with the old dls and svg's or new, i would get the 'failed' message. I have tried with all combinations possible in the FF8 configurator and used the 1.2 ff8 patch as well as the updated dls'.
I have also attempted to use the ff8midi file, which encounters a problem and closes, as does winamp when trying to play the FF8 music using Ficedula's winamp plugin.
I have also uninstalled and reinstalled my sound drivers, to no avail.
Im guessing this may well be a problem with my computer setup somehow and not FF8, but I have no idea how as I didn't change anything during this process. Please does anybody know how this problem could be fixed.
System:
Windows XP SP2
Soundblaster X-FI
intel core 2 duo
asus p5w dh
ati 1900 xt
Many thanks for reading
