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Final Fantasy VII
Submitted by Anonymous on 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This product has a rating of 5 out of 5 running under Windows 2000 Comments: Received the follow messages: 1) It works with the "Secret" compatibility update from Microsoft! Here's how you can make it work: 1) Download and install this file: http://msdn.microsoft.com/compatibility/act.exe 2) Run AppFix.exe, located in the applications subdirectory in the ACT install folder. 3) Play FF7! 2) Even using the 1.02 patch for my TNT in Direct 3D mode, Final Fantasy 7 does not work. You need to click on a FF7 movie file on one of the CD's so Media player will ask you to download the codec or else the in-game movies won't play at all. Even then, when you are in a battle and a spell is cast the game crashes with an access violation. The hard drive is constantly swapping playing the game also, which makes it very slow, and I have 128 MB of RAM 3)The game seems to work fine using appfix.exe, but it will freeze in any 3D subgames, such as chocobo races an snowboarding. Running a P3 700, V 5500, 256Mb ram. Tried with Dx8 compatible drivers and whitout, still no go. 4) Will load up to first scene. However, game is forcefully terminated upon ANY transition (battle, scene, etc.). Occurs regardless of 3D or MIDI mode. All applicable patches and updates in place. Using DirectX 8. Crashes regardless of the nVidia fix. 5) As said before, it works with the appfix patch, but freezes on the subgames. Unfortuniately, these sub games are vital to the plot and thier not working pretty much make the game unplayable. In fact, after about 4 hours (more or less depending on how you play) of game time, you will hit a point in the game you cannot pass because of crashes. 6) Works fine including sub games. Follow the instructions here: http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14382 7) FF7 now works *perfectly* under Win2k. You need the new App Compatibility Toolkit (1.5). You also need to have installed the DirectShow drivers (on the FF CD) or the movies will play with no video. You have to run FF7 through the QAppFix utility for it to work, unfortunatly. 8) The ones of you using QFixApp, to make FF7 run under Win2000 with bad results should read this. When you are setting which fixes to use with ff7.exe, *MAKE SURE* you have unselected the "Win2000VersionLie.dll" since this will make the game to hang, also, if it works, you can bake the fixes into the exe by pressing advanced; checking filesize and checksum and press "Create fix support". One other thing I am not certain about is that Win2000 DX8.1 may cause the game to hang, just try DX8.0a since it may get your FF7 to work. Good luck. |