Trials and Tribulations VII

[Cornuthaum]

I can't get it to work on my PC (radeon x1650, 2.8ghz intel, 1gb ram), no matter what I try.

The goode ole Riva TNT fix to nuke the annoying 8Bit paletted textures? Done. Doesn't work.

The blanket FFVII XP patch (which, ironically includes the above)? Been there, done that, got the tentacle monster in a jar to prove it.

Screwing around with the registry to make the program believe that I have what it wants? Sure, but it is disbelieving still.


GAH!

I want to play FFVII, but I don't know how to get it to run.

Oh, please, please help me.

Three times three hours of googling for a solution did jack shit for me

FFVII crashes basically the moment I start it, giving me nothing but a black screen, the sound of what I assume is the flashing logo of Square Enix and then nothing but bland blackness, forcing me to reboot as I can't alt-f4, ctrlaltdel or anything else out of it.

:blue:

 

[nuclear death frog]

The PC version of Final Fantasy VII is famously fucked; you're better off giving up and playing it on console. I'm not saying that to be disruptive; this is an issue that has been known for years. Most people gave up long ago.

 

[sigfried27]

It really is a fickle game. Granted, I just have bad luck with computers, but when I played it on desktop, it always had errors during cutscenes and made beating the game nigh impossible. And when trying to play it on a laptop...you can't start a game due to the lack of the second enter key connected to the numpad, so you just stare at the menu screen. If you have any sony system, FF7 is pretty cheap, so you are better of picking it up for console. Besides, the numpad controls are a pain in the ass, especially for any mini games.

 

[Cornuthaum]

The PC version of Final Fantasy VII is famously fucked; you're better off giving up and playing it on console. I'm not saying that to be disruptive; this is an issue that has been known for years. Most people gave up long ago.

I don't have a playstation of any form, kind or way, and neither do I have the FFVII for the playstation, so I'm bound to the PC.

And I don't even have the spare money for a new headset, so a PS1, the game AND a working TV are fully out of my range

 

[nuclear death frog]

Then do yourself a favor and just give up. The PC version of FF7 is so buggy that it's not worth playing even if you do get it to "work". I should know -- I spent months trying to get it to work back at the beginning of the decade. Constantly read NTCompatible and other sites. Finally I just thought "Fuck it", because the game wasn't even that good.

 

[lethum]

Or you could just find the PS game and download an emulator (like Bleem!, I suppose) and play it like that. Although I how good the game works is up to the emulator, and I don't know if the PC Cd's work for the emulator...

 

[Cornuthaum]

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=6238.0

this contains ALL answers for any trouble you could have with FF VII - and includes a lot of wonderful patches (like the improved models one. no more eyesores! woot!)