I've tried everything I could think of, but FF7 refuses to work properly. If i play in Win XP mode, major slowdowns going into/out of battle, and into/out of menu, same thing with Win2k and NT compatibility, if I play in Win 95/98 mode, thats fixed, but my game crashes and I can't use my controller. Any help would be very much appreciated.

My system specs:
Radeon 9000 64 MB
Gigabyte 7VRXP motherboard
Athlon XP 1800+ 1.54 GHz CPU
256 MB DDR RAM

Anything else you need to know?

If there is another topic similar to this, if you could post a link here, that would be good too, provided that topic has a solution.

Thanks in advance.

Open up the xp/games forum. There are lots of FF7 posts there