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FF7 is the best game that i have play in my psone
but since i tryed to run it under win vista i think it will be the worst. I try everything you have said but nothing work.

Reported by Anonymous

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J'ai installé FF7 sur mon pc(win vista)
je lance le jeux,tous se passe bien mais lorsque le train s'arréte l'ecron devient noir.
si vous pouver m'aider à résoudre se probléme svp
nb: mon carte graphique est ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 et merci.

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Installed fine, patched fine, played fine in Win98 compatibility.

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nVidia 8800gt, vista ultimate 64
installed the 1.02, the chocobo race patch and the codec and the high-res/aa patch, all mentioned above. I have problems only with sound not playing in some movies or in some secquences following movies. otherwise everything else seems to be running just fine

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It goes to the black screen and after 5 seconds I get "ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close....."

I'm a bit inconfident with some areas of computing, my specs are

Windows Ultimate Edition
512 RAM
Intel 82830M Graphics Controller
Mobile Intel Pentium III CPU - M 1200MHz

Can anyone advise how I can remedy the problem? I've tried the TNT patch (I don't have an nVidea card though) and I've tried the WinXP patch to no avail

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Tested on Windows Vista Ultimate. Works perfectly without fail. Running on AMD X2 3800+ and ATI Radeon X1650 Pro AGP.

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My specs are as follows:

nVidia GeForce 8400
Intel Duo 1.8
2 Gbs of Mem
Vista 32 Bit Home Premium

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I have vista, but i dont think thats the problem.

I installed the game and ran these patches:

Official Patch the 1.2 one
Saints High Res Patch
NPC Recon
Truemotion Codec
& Sephiroth Patch

I followed the insructions precisely, and the patches installed perfectly w/o trouble.

Now heres the problem, When i run FF7.exe the game goes to a black screen as if its about to start, but then it just reverts back to my desktop :(, im not getting any errors, so i dont know whats wrong. No im not using the Ultima Edition, and im pretty sure i installed everything correctly.

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Using FF7 Luncher should help you to run it on Windows XP and Vista :
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=7248.0

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Thanks to ALL of you for your help. I tried out various methods from all of your posts, and this is what got mine to work...

I downloaded the latest K-lite codec pack:
http://www.free-codecs.com/K_lite_codec_pack_download.htm

I did full install of FF7 WITHOUT installing the included apps.

I ran the TrueMotion installer:
http://codec.alshow.co.kr/Page/en/true.htm

I copied the 1.2 patches over:
http://codec.alshow.co.kr/Page/en/true.htm

I disabled the TrueMotion thingy:
Hi all, I'm getting the black screen problem under vista. After reading the above post I understand that it is the k-lite codec pack problem. So, to fix it, I did:
1. Goto K-lite codec pack -> Configuration -> ffdshow video decoder.
2. On the main codec tab, find the "TrueMotion 1,2" line, and click to disable it. (Since libavcodec is having a problem)

I changed the compatability to 98, 256 colors and strict resolution, inside ff7.exe's properties.

I set up the config:
12. Next, go to FFVII config file. Change graphics to Nvidia and TNT, 640x480 full screen, Direct3D Hardware Accel.

I ran the game.

When the cut scene with the train ended, the screen was black. HOWEVER, I "held up":
the screen went black except for the "C'mon newcomer" text appearing. If this happens, hold the up key until you enter a random battle. The battle should appear as normal and after this all rendering issues seem fixed.

I didn't install the chocobo patch yet, but at least I know now that it's not gonna be a waste of time doing additional patches.

You've all been fantastic.

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So, I finally got it to work. I had been having issues with the textures rendering, ie, after the initial movie the guards and Avalanche weren't showing up and the screen turned black as the sounds of Cloud and company jumped off the train.

To fix this, I did the following here:
http://deadaimgames.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!23D808D5C5803715!427.entry

I also had to uninstall the k-lite codec pack. The workaround a few posts up did not work for me, but uninstalling did.

Good luck!

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I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit.
After some trial & error, I have been able to successfully, play FFVII: Ultima Edition.
The issue I was previously experiencing was the game .exe crashing on startup.

1. After installing the game normally, make sure you install the Truemotion codec 2.0.
2. Before doing anything else, go to the game folder and find the "movies" folder. Open at least one of them in media player.
3. Change compatibility for ff7.exe to win98, 256 colors, 640x480, run as administrator.
4. Run the configuration utility, and select Nvidia and TNT, 640x480 full screen, Direct3D Hardware Acceleration.

That worked for me.
This only works with a fresh install for me. If you have attempted to run FFVII prior to following these steps, reinstall.

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I am also having trouble getting it to work.
I am using windows Vista I downloaded all the patches but it freezes and the screen goes black right after I press NEW GAME.

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For anyone without the K-lite codec pacl who is getting the black screen with Eidos sound then a crash (like I was):
Thing that fixed this for me was to install the k-lite pack, then do the fix mentioned somewhere above (disabling ff7 in the fddshow video config). Seems that k-lite is necessary for video, but you need to fix it for it to work.
Also, when I first got into the game, (after the opening movie, the first rendered scene) the screen went black except for the "C'mon newcomer" text appearing. If this happens, hold the up key until you enter a random battle. The battle should appear as normal and after this all rendering issues seem fixed.

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I'm running ff7 on xp sp2, it works almost find without direct 3d, but after i met Tifa i saved and now I cant even start the game. After running i got black screen and an error messange:"ff7.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
I have dell inspiron 1520 laptop wit geforce 8600

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here is my setup:

Vista Home Premium (32 bit)
Intel Core2Duo T7300 @ 2.00 Ghz
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

It's an HP nx9420 laptop, and has a numerical pad.

I tried every fix listed here, and on a few other sites I found and nothing is working. I don't have ffdshow decoder or k-lite codec pack. I am able to run every game under the sun, Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed, Medal Of Honor Airborne, Age of Empires 3, Bioshock etc. Yet I cannot run this game, I've installed every patch, the truemotion codec (had to do so in compatibility mode of xp just for it to install properly) and have tried running the ffvii.exe in every compatibility mode configuration possible. I tried every configuration possible on the ffvii.config also. And NOTHING is working, is there any help left for me or should I just give up??

Reported by Anonymous

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I was in the position where ff7 was working until i reinstalled windows and it wasnt working, i was getting the black screen and intro sounds and then freeze.
I simply disabled truemotion codec in k lite pack
and changed the windows compatibility to 98/me.
Thanks for the help guys.

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I have the Final Fantasy VII Ultima Edition and it does not work on my Vista Ultimate 32 bit, I tried to ran it in Administrator, and Windows 98 mode and nothing changed. After I launched the program it crashed and it said ffvii.exe stopped working...
It is very strange because in last summer I have successfully ran Final Fantasy VII on Vista, and I think I didn't changed any hardware since then, only Vista reinstalls.
I hope someone can help me.