FFVII PC help!!

[Jewpacabra]

Ok, so i know most of you may be rolling your eyes thinking that i have the ultima edition or something, but i had the original game for pc a while ago, and decided that with my new hard drive i could convert the CD's to ISO's, in case i lost them or something. any way, i moved out, got a job and a life and lost the CD's, and promptly forgot about the ISO's. anyway, i found them, and installed the game, patched it to 1.2, added the higher graphics patch, as well as the laptop keyboard one and the chocobo racing fix. My prblem is that the game launches, my screen goes black for a few seconds, and the game goes back to the desktop. i have tried to get it to work with compatitbility settings and the like, but no dice. any help would be appreciated.

 

[Caimekaze]

Your movie files may be the issue.

That's all I can remember about that problem though, it's been a while. Use that to start you off though.

 

[Caimekaze]

Buy the disk again!

... Do you seriously mean that? I really hope not, especially after your thread decrying all the people on these forums who apparently knew nothing about games and should leave.

 

[Jewpacabra]

right, i'll try the true motion patch, i forgot about it
*edit*
nope, still nothing. maybe something to do with daemon tools?
cos thats what i loaded the isos onto, with CD1 currently loaded

 

[Deathlyphil]

I remember trying to play FFVII on the PC a couple of years ago. One problem I found was that when the game went full 3D (bike section, snowboarding), it didn't have a frame limiter so it was running at 200fps instead of 30fps. This crashed out the bike section every time. The workaround I found was to drop the graphics down to the software 320x240 setting, then bump it back up to hardware 640x480 afterwards.

 

[Jewpacabra]

yeah, my problem is that the game doesnt even start
and the game can run, i did have the ultima edition a few years back, but it was easier to use my ps1.

 

[Threecagehit]

Coincidentally enough, I had the same when I tried to install it about 3 weeks ago. The game will "launch" to a black screen, wait for about 30 seconds and then shut itself down.

 

[Jewpacabra]

Coincidentally enough, I had the same when I tried to install it about 3 weeks ago. The game will "launch" to a black screen, wait for about 30 seconds and then shut itself down.

i see, so were you able to rectify it?
because that is my exact problem

 

[Starnerf]

Have you tried running in compatibility mode? I think I had that problem too and running in CM for Windows 2000 or 98 may have fixed it.

 

[Threecagehit]

No luck, even tried it in compatibility mode as Starnerf suggested, still no luck.

 

[Deathlyphil]

What OS are you using? XP or Vista? If it's Xp then you *might* get it to work in compatibility mode(win95 most likely). If it's Vista then chances are that it's never going to work...

I think it might be a DirectX conflict. FF7 will want 3.5 or 5, and you will be running 9 or 10.

 

[Jewpacabra]

vista, but as i said, i did manage to get another version working

 

[dstryfe]

I had a thread about this exact thing, about 2 months back. I kinda got it to work.

Check this. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.106117]

I only got it to work as far as the soldiers standing outside of the train. Then, just before Cloud jumps off, it crashes. Goddamn. If you can get anything more off of the thread, let me know.

 

[Jewpacabra]

im re-installing the ultima version, and seeing if that works, cos it might be the 1.2 patch

 

[Jewpacabra]

does it go black and the music is still playing when it crashed?

 

[Jewpacabra]

and yeah, the ultima version works, but since its a, shall we say "less than legal" edition of the game, no support patches or anything are out there

 

[Radeonx]

Buy the disk again!

... Do you seriously mean that? I really hope not, especially after your thread decrying all the people on these forums who apparently knew nothing about games and should leave.

No I really dont imagine he will buy the disk again and being that i was being sarcastic it means that, to answer your question, no i dont

I am in awe of your grammar.

I thought the exact same thing.

 

[Jewpacabra]

EGAD!! i found it!!...
*ahem* by that i mean i've found a way for the game to work, but you need to roll back the HD patch, and only have it run in 640x480

 

[Threecagehit]

I tried running it in 640x480 and in windows 95 mode, but it didn't do anything for me. What is this HD patch?