FF7 Battle crashing totally randomly now`

[DarkShadowRage]

Okay I was playing FF7 just fine all day today.

When I finally figured out how to get the NPC patch working, deleted what I had of the reunion patch and replaced my data folder in my ff7 folder by deleting the old one and putting the original one from my CD in it's place.

Now the NPC patch works and all, but when I get into battle after the swirl before the screen comes up it just crashes, any idea how to fix this?

I tried reinstalling FF7 too and nothing.

Edit: I Forgot to mention
I have this installed now
Aali's open GL driver
FF7 1.02
Chocobo Patch
True motion
High Res Cloud
NPC RPC 0.6
Battle Swirl Fix
My PC stats taken from my Xfire Profile
Manufacturer: HP Pavilion 061
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Hard Drive: 282 GB Total
Video Card: Radeon 9800 PRO (Omega 3.8.442)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Sound Card: Realtek AC97 Audio
Speakers/Headphones: Labtech
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: USB Root Hub
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-LA

[titeguy3]

Plenty of things that could fix this.

1) Look for dziugo's YAMP and the battle swirl fix, and apply that to your FF7.exe

2) Aali's custom graphics driver seems to fix everything...try that.

3) Shameless self thread promotion

EDIT: Oh yeah, also, (this is general knowledge that should apply to everything) if you're running windows vista, DISABLE USER ACCOUNT CONTROL BY GOING TO THE USERS OPTION IN THE CONTROL PANEL CLASSIC VIEW. I swear that UAC is the only reason vista sucks.

[DarkShadowRage]

Well i'm on windows XP, I tried the YAMP before and that didn't work.

I tried ali's graphic patch and i'm not even sure if I did it right though.

Well I tried the graphics driver again and this is what happens, it still crashes though.

INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r19334, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. Radeon 9800 PRO (Omega 3.8.442) 2.1.7169 Release
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 800x600, output resolution 800x600, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Fragment shader(s) linked, vertex shader(s) linked.
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:YAMAHA XG WDM SoftSynthesizer, mid=1, pid=102,
midi data type: YAMAHA XG MIDI
using midi data file: g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\xg.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: G:\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
SET VOLUME 5: 127
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save02.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save03.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save04.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save05.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save06.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save07.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save08.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE g:\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save09.ff7
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
stop_sound
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
cross play music: 0
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4
MIDI cross fade: 71, time: 4
MIDI set volume trans: 15->127; step=4
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
MIDI play: 71
reading midi file: KITA.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
set music volume: 127
MIDI play: 7
reading midi file: BAT.mid
current volume: 127
MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!
stop_sound
-=-=[END OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE SWIRL
Swirl sound_effect1
stop_sound
End of Swirl sound_effect1
Entering FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Exitting FRAME_QUIT SWIRL
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
[BATTLE] Entering FRAME_INITIALIZE
[BATTLE] Scene# 37
[BATTLE] Exitting FRAME_INITIALIZE
ERROR: unhandled exception

This is what it looks like when it crashes



Edit: Did a clean install
it doesnt happen without any patches.
I installed 1.02 it works fine
High Quality Cloud Model
It works fine.
NPC patch installed and it WORKS!


Everything is all fixed! WOOHOO!