Getting FF7 to work on Windows Vista! HELP PLEASE

[terminater27]

Hi guys, I've been having trouble trying to get FF7-PRP to work properly.

I have Windows Vista, 3 GB of RAM, ATI Mobilitiy HD 2600 Video card.


Before it would run in TNT mode with fmv discoloring(IE. Aeris had a blue dress in opening) al ot of gridlines, as well as graphical glitches.

Then I tried it with the higher resolution patch and the gridlines and fmv discoloring went away. The graphical glitches remain on the field and in battle however.

Here were the steps I took in installing FF7.
First I install the 1.02 patch.
Then I install the Saints Higher resolution patch.
Then I install FF7-PRP.

By renaming the 00 and 01 LGP files in the FFPRP folder I can get both Saints and Phoenix working, but there are a bunch of graphical errors.

And for some reason, after combining saints and FF7PRP the first time, I can't even run FF7 or FF7PRP alone without the higher resolution patch anymore.

HELP PLEASE! =(

[Grimmy]

Give Aali's driver a try it works wonders.

[drfeelgud88]

wut kind of graphical glitches?

[terminater27]

Cloud is missing part of leg, Barret is missing part of his body in the field.
In battle certain monsters are missing heads and legs, etc.

[DLPB_]

Run aalis driver and do not update the 1.02 exe.....

[drfeelgud88]

ya i have that same problem... did u ever fix it?

[Grimmy]

That visibility problem was resolved, what version of the driver are you using?

[Chrysalis]

I had none of these glitches when playing on my laptop in win7.

I did the following on that.

install 1.02 patch
install chocobo crash fix patch
install frame rate limiter patch (fixes snowboarding crash also)
install movie codec.
install virtual midi driver, so midi can be muted without muting sound.
install latest ff7music. (better sound and as bonus better stability since the normal midi driver crashes ff7 a lot.)
run game in admin mode and windows 98 compatability mode.
in ff7 config set gfx to nvidia and tnt, midi to virtual midi device.
I also play the movies of my hdd for performance and I guess reduces the risk of movie related crash.

I played around with a few settings on my laptop like using riva128 instead of tnt which did cause some minor corruption but not as bad as you have, and I expect software rendering would fix your issues but with worse quality graphics.

this sounds like a ton of hassle but now if I want to play game on new pc, I just copy the dir over with pre patched files and have my registry data exported ready to import so dont need to install of install disc etc.

really tired at the moment so cant post the exact name of virtual midi driver and guide to installing videos to play off hdd but both have guides on this site and the net.

[Covarr]

I had none of these glitches when playing on my laptop in win7.

I did the following on that.

install 1.02 patch
install chocobo crash fix patch
install frame rate limiter patch (fixes snowboarding crash also)
install movie codec.
install virtual midi driver, so midi can be muted without muting sound.
install latest ff7music. (better sound and as bonus better stability since the normal midi driver crashes ff7 a lot.)
run game in admin mode and windows 98 compatability mode.
in ff7 config set gfx to nvidia and tnt, midi to virtual midi device.
I also play the movies of my hdd for performance and I guess reduces the risk of movie related crash.

I played around with a few settings on my laptop like using riva128 instead of tnt which did cause some minor corruption but not as bad as you have, and I expect software rendering would fix your issues but with worse quality graphics.

this sounds like a ton of hassle but now if I want to play game on new pc, I just copy the dir over with pre patched files and have my registry data exported ready to import so dont need to install of install disc etc.

really tired at the moment so cant post the exact name of virtual midi driver and guide to installing videos to play off hdd but both have guides on this site and the net.

Aali's patch fixes the Chocobo crash, the framerate problems, snowboarding crash; you shouldn't need a patched EXE except for the 1.02 patch.

Was the virtual midi driver you're referring to "LoopBe"?