Hello, I'm new to this board, and I'm going to annoy you with my problems.
I recently wanted to play FF7 again on my PC, but it appeared to show several bugs, the first one being upside-down movies, but it has been quickly fixed.
Now to the real thing : If I try to open the menu, the game lags for a second and then it crashes to desktop (has met a problem blablabla). The same thing happens during battles, when I try to use some magic or when an enemy does some special attack.
Also, when using straight the freshly installed version, I can load the game but while using the 1.02 version the screen goes black for a second and then goes back to desktop.
I can load videos (Eidos, Intro, etc ...) I see the starting sequence with Clad getting down the train. I can load my previous saved games. I can freely move around. I can initiate a battle. I can see other menus (speech bubbles, saving slots).
The strange thing is that I already played this game with NO PROBLEM (well except the usual chocobo thingy
), I can even load back my old games, but this menu thingy is getting on my nerves T_T.
Well now that I'm thinking about it, the new thing is that I now have a new video card (GeForce4 Ti 4200 --> Radeon 9550), the old one being faulty.
What I tried :
_ Patch 1.02 with or without TNT ticked
_ Patch 1.04 XP (I know I shouldn't have done it, but still I had to try)
_ Compatibility (95/98/NT/2000 + tried MS Compatibility toolkit)
_ I read a lot of other topics of this forum and couldn't find a way to make it work
What else can I do ? Any help is greatly appreciated, I'll willingly send you screenshots or files to help me debug
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