FF7 weird problem!!!

[Snake2208]

Hi, this is my first post,looking forward to help any member if i can

i got a problem in final fantasy 7, i can play just fine, but after like 10 min of playing, it starts to lag, runs slower, specially with the little hand-pointer, it get slower and slower until it freezes, (you can still hear the music), then i press ctrl-f4 and ctrl-alt-esc, then the music finally freezes and after like 1-2 min you can hear it again normally like for 10 sec and, the program closes, giving me an error with a graphic driver, the nvidia display .dll

the weird thing is that before i reinstall windows, it worked just fine...

i have Windows xp professional SP2 (it was also SP2 before i reinstall it), AMD 64 athlon +3200, nvidia nforce 4 (6.86 nforce drivers) geforce 7300 SE/7200 GS (191.07 geforce drivers) (not sure what nforce and geforce drivers i had before...)

I've got installed the 1.02 patch, yamp, the high res patch, high res cloud, npc reconstruction project and spell patch, also the duck and k-lite codecs, and the Riva runner checking out the 8bit parallel textures

help!! thanks in advanced!!!

[drfeelgud88]

You don't have Aali's custom driver installed?

[sl1982]

You don't have Aali's custom driver installed?

He has to for the spell patch to work

[drfeelgud88]

Are you sure that by "spell patch" he didn't mean "fire, fira, firaga, etc."?

[sl1982]

Are you sure that by "spell patch" he didn't mean "fire, fira, firaga, etc."?

I was not aware that exists. So im afraid not

[drfeelgud88]

Well, we must ask him.
cloud2208, by spell patch, which mod did you mean exactly?

[Snake2208]

holy... you guys are fast to answer... anyway yes is the fire, fira, firaga patch (kernel2.bin)  

yea i used the FINAL FANTASY VII PC - NEAT COMPILATION OF PATCHES AND MODS (# 1, 2, 3, 4, 5b, 6)

[drfeelgud88]

Ok. Well, try installing Aali's custom graphics driver. It is the absolute BEST. Get it from this thread: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8306.msg112523#msg112523
Well, hope that helps!

[Snake2208]

ok worth's the shot... lets see if this works....

[Snake2208]

it doesn't work, i can hear the music but i can't see the intro or the grafics, there just a white screen insted...

[drfeelgud88]

Hmm. No idea dude. Try to re-install, MAX install, and get the mods from here instead of the NEAT COMPILATION because that one I think may be out-of-date. Just my thoughts.

[Snake2208]

YAY AND DAM!!!! i found that if i use the high res patch without the "[The_SaiNt]_High_Res_FF7PC_1280x1024_Fix_Patcher.exe" the white screen disapears, (but u can se the task board), i could finaly play it, no lag problems or anything!!!!(at least the little time i've played until...)...... until it crashes..... yea, sometimes when i enter a random batlle, it says that something went wrong and creates a crash.dmp... i'll post this on the Aali custom driver forum...

P.S. since the usage of this custom grafic driver probably ended the lag and freezes, i think this is a problem with DX9.0c or nvidia grafic cards drivers, maybe downgrading those things could eliminate those problems...

[drfeelgud88]

Hmm. You shouldn't use The SaiNt's patch. You should only use Aali's custom graphics driver and set your desired resolutions.