New Computer, Old Issues (sound, resolution, others)

[someBodyOnceToldMe]

I had installed FF7 last year onto a Gateway computer that was 4 years old at the time. I recently got a new computer and just now was working with FF7 and it and I am having some issues.

First, I can say that I am using FF7Music, have installed the 1.02 and chocobo patches, the Reunion Patch and the Advent Children character icon patch.

The first issue is, this laptop is widescreen. the game will display fine but obviously a little stretched. does anyone know if the High Resolution patch, or some other method, can center things off so that my 1440x900 screen doesn't make the PC game look worse graphically than it may already look? On a related issue, i know the system has to go back a few years in terms of colors and whatever but when i leave the game, the colors on say my wallpapers still don't look so hot. a simple reboot fixes this. is there a quicker fix?

2nd) so i'm playing an old save file and at the exact moment you defeat Safer Sephiroth and he begins to fade away (this is before u have that 'final fight'), the sound cuts out. this happens whether or not FF7Music is enabled. it turns off all the sound on the PC, even though nothing is muted. this, again, is corrected only by reboot. i tried other friends' save files, the same is true on my computer. any thoughts?

3) i've been using my Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller through bluetooth on games on my computer, with some GlovePIE scripts I've compiled. it works pretty well for nearly everything, but if i run ff7 with the Wiimote linked to the computer via Bluetooth, then going into the game, UP-LEFT seems to be stuck. the menus will constantly be being scrolled through, and Cloud is always walking to the left and up. if i go to the CONFIG and hover over a sound option, it will scroll left and turn off, yet if I go to the keyboard config, it doesn't instantly register a value, as if an actual key was being hit. I don't know what's up with that.

other than that, things are working great. i did have the black screen issue before but i disabled ffdshow's running TrueMotion as mentioned here and that got fixed easily.

edit: forgot computer specs.
HP Pavilion dv9225us (17" widescreen, wide enough to have its own number pad)
AMD x2 Turion64 TL-60 2.1GHz, NVIDEA GeForce 7600, Conexant High Quality Audio, Windows XP Pro x86 (i also have a dual boot w/ Vista Ultimate x64 tho i don't think this would work any better there lol)
Bluetooth Widcomm drivers v5.0.1.2500, Nintendo Wii Remote, Wii Nunchuk, GlovePIE software

[squeeble]

I can help with problem number 2, I don't know why it mutes everything at the final battle but it did do that for me as well a few times but it seems to mute everything. Just click the little speaker in the bottom right corner of the screen and untick mute. As for your color problem when you get back to desktop right click anywhere on the screen and click properties then click the settings tab and set the color depth back to 32bit. Hope that helps a bit.

[someBodyOnceToldMe]

Nope, lol, I'm listed as unmuted at the moment but there's no sound on the computer at all.. I can mute and unmute all I want, it doesn't change anything until I reboot. And I just checked my display properties.. it's already set to 32 bit.. so i applied 16 bit and then 32 bit again, but it still doesn't look so hot. thanks for the quick response, though.

edit: Actually, now the audio isn't even fixed after I reboot.. I had to uninstall and reinstall my Conexant HiDef drivers.