Cloud, etc. appear black (Graphical error)

[Skye]

Hey all I finally managed to get FFVII working on XP SP3 after many different combinations of patches.

This is what I have installed to get it to its current (mostly) working state:

- The official 1.2 patch
- The SaiNt's High Res FF7PC Patch v1.00  (with integrated Jedwin's chocobo patch)
- YAMP (fixed my crashing problems)
- NPC Reconstruction Project for FF7PC 0.6 mod

Now it is finally stable, but Cloud and other active objects appear like this:





My specs:
XP SP3
Core 2 Quad Processor Q9450 @2.66GHz
2x GeForce 8800M GTX (SLi)
4GB RAM

Any help is greatly appreciated, cheers!

[autrui]

Ahhhh!  I'm not the only one with this problem then!  Seems to be a number of posts, with no solutions...  Anyone have any ideas of what direction to go in?

[dziugo]

"Pretty good" config you got there You might want to try some older GPU drivers - the thing is, it could be that there are no old enough drivers for your GPU(s).

[Trigr2006]

Yep to fix it, you need to dual boot with Windows Vista or just use Windows Vista.

[Skye]

Sure there's no way to get it working in XP? I installed XP on my Vista system (as a dualboot) because I couldn't even get it to this stage on Vista!

[nscreated]

Vista has audio problems, but there are workarounds.

The culprit in your case is your GF8 card. There are a few threads here that talk about this. GF8 + WinXP + FFVII = lots of black all over the place.

I would install Vista if I could (it really is a fabulous OS; most if not all of the major criticisms have been dealt with or have workarounds) but I don't want to pay the money.

You can use software rendering, or buy a GF4 MX440 PCI card from eBay for $25.

[Skye]

That'd be a bit hard as I'm on a laptop. Is there no way to fix it with RivaTuner?

[Trigr2006]

That'd be a bit hard as I'm on a laptop. Is there no way to fix it with RivaTuner?

I'm afraid not, it's something to do with the actual graphics drivers for windows xp.

[Trigr2006]

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=7795.0 <- Heres how to fix the Black Characters Problem