FF7 Crashes on First Battle

[AngelSpirit]

Hi.  I signed up a few hours ago after lurking around the forum.  Read the stickies, rules, etc.  I'm currently trying to find a fix for a rather annoying problem that I've been experiencing with FF7 (not ultima edition, trust me).

So, to the point.  I load up FF7, and select 'New Game'.  The intro movie plays fine, and I get to the train scene ok.  But when the two blue soldiers run out and the first battle starts, whenever anyone attacks, or when I select the 'Attack' command, the game crashes with a generic Windows error message "An exception was generated at (address).  Click OK to terminate the program".  It also crashes if I press the menu button before the battle.

Technical:

Mods Installed
v1.02 official patch
YAMP
NPC Reconstruction Project
Note: I tried running FF7 without any mods installed...didn't help.

Computer Specifications
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU @2.93GHz
RAM: 382 MB (sucks, I know)


I've also tried this: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=2536.0

That should be all the information that's needed...Thanks in advance, and let me know if you need to know anything more.

[obesebear]

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8306.0

[AngelSpirit]

Okay, that solves the crash.  The issue I have now is that when I use that driver, the FPS drops to about 5, which makes the game practically unplayable.

Any other options?

[obesebear]

Upgrade your ram and get Windows 7.   Vista can't even run with less than 1Gb

[Kudistos Megistos]

Yeah, do what obesebear said.

384MB of RAM isn't nearly enough nowadays; fortunately, RAM is cheap and you should be able to get 4GB for $100 or 2GB for $50. Find out what kind RAM is compatible with your processor and motherboard and buy some.

Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).

[Covarr]

Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).

I suspect he has a dual core pentium 4, based on that name. Of course, there's no way ordinary people can (or would) overclock a Pentium 2 to 2.93GHz.

[Kudistos Megistos]

Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).

I suspect he has a dual core pentium 4, based on that name. Of course, there's no way ordinary people can (or would) overclock a Pentium 2 to 2.93GHz.

I see. I'm afraid that I'm not so au fait with hardware from before the mid-2000s

[InuRa]

I think the problem here is the GPU and Vista, not the CPU.
I'm pretty sure even an MX440 with Windows XP would be able to run FF7 @ 800x600 with a stable frame rate with that much RAM easily.

[AngelSpirit]

Then again, you might want to upgrade your CPU, is you still have a Pentium 2 (I'm assuming that is what you have and you didn't mean to say "Core 2 Duo", which is still fine).

I suspect he has a dual core pentium 4, based on that name. Of course, there's no way ordinary people can (or would) overclock a Pentium 2 to 2.93GHz.

I rechecked it...sorry, it is a Pentium 4.  My mistake.

[Aali]

Please post the first 10 lines from app.log (in your FF7 install dir)