Ok well I installed FF6 on my p3 (550mhz 385ram) and it was working, all good. The intro went no problems and I got to the first battle, then it freezes. In the middle of the first attack it just freezes up and gives me an error message. Nothing I can do. I have been looking for diffrent patches but I cant find one for FF7 or for my problem.

Installed fine in Windows Vista, used nVidia patch and selected TNT in the config program (I have a 7600GT card). No graphical anomalies, no crashing. Works a treat! Text even looks great!

It does not work at all in vista and I have a X800 graphics card which under XP worked fine but without the xp patch, it doesn't work at all!!

Does not work under vista anyone have an idea? I have an ati graphics cards (powerful) and normally works in windows xp

Ok, I've got winxp sp2 with a 3800x2 cpu 7800gt 2gb ram.

ff7 eidos version w/ 1.4 xp patch running without the nvidia option checked in the config, look below for details.

Now everything seemed to work right except for 3 things.

1. I haven't played far enough to check the sub or snow boarding mini games but the bike mini game runs at a really fast speed. It doesn't make the game unplayable but its far more difficult to control.

2. When I tried to get yuffie my game would crash after the fight when it tries to go to the screen where you answer the questions. The only way I could get around this was to go to the config app and change my 3d rendering from software to D3d and enable the nvidia check box, the riva/tnt didnt really seem to make a difference. once i did that, i got in the fight, did the little scene saved, quit, changed my settings back to normal.

3. Ok, the really annoying part so far is when your in corel prison, you have to go fight dyne and then do the chocobo race. Well, funny thing happened, I got in the race and it was fine but once i finished it, the game crashed. I don't know if it was a one time thing or not but it seemed that changing the nvidia option and doing d3d render fixed most of my problems before. The reason I say its annoying is it crashes and u have to start over and fight dyne again and do everything over, thats why i didnt try it a 2nd time.


Main reason I don't run with the nvidia option on and d3d rendering is because the games next to unplayable. Color distortions and if your not in a fight or on the world map, you cant seem anything but the characters and savepoints/chests/loot on the ground. when i check in config when i run in software rendering without the nvidia box checked. my 8-bit pallated(cant remember how its spelled) textures fails but as far as I can see, the game runs just fine except for those minor problems.

I don't know if its my computer but I did notice that every once in a while when I start the game up that its running in turbo. Everythings ultra fast but the music running normally. Restarting the game til its fixed is what i've done to compensate but I tried a speed hack but all that seems to do is mess with the musics tempo and not the game at all.

I'll post more as I run thru the game but if anyone knows any possible fixes for any of these issues please post. :)

I have a X1300 ATI card, this game does not work on Vista.

I have Vista as well and it does not show movies at all.

After installing Vista, I re-ran the configuration utility and this game worked fine.

Worked fine with vista, but i installed Direct X9, and didnt work after installing this, this might be the problem

After I pass the chocobo races.. I can play that final fantasy vii game well.. but when going to cosmo canyon,nanaki hometown. his grandfather bugenhagen gave us shows his lab.. when in lab..a meteor falls and it hang at there..can't move anymore..

I open FF7, shows a black screen, then it exits. Was fine before I installed vista.

Dear friends i have FF8 pc version and both copies are fresh I had no prob when I was using it on my p3 celeron 850
and since i am using my new p4 2.8 or my laptop celeron 1.7 I can't play the game
prob.. ' game installed perfectly but after that when i insert my disk one and click on ff8 game menu open to new game continue and credit menu after that when i clicked on the new game damn the black screen come and stopped nothing happen

I have g force 256 graphics card also in my p4 2.8 with 256 mb ram

Video is off center (top left is shown) and wont get past intro in full screen, and wont get past menu in quater screen, aslo it sasys my PC fails 8-bit palletes in the config

Specs:
AMD Opteron 165 1.8GHz (dual core)
1GB RAM
ATI X850XT

I have a Geforce 6600 PNY AGP 8x but can goto 4x if necessary DDR 256MB Video RAM with XP SP2 version 2002 Upgrade Edition and I have what I think you would a minor issue regarding the screen resoulution of 640x480, also regarding the FMV and that resolution and I was wondering if there was a way to fix such an issue!!

It basically is too slow and out of sync with my sound on the FMV's and that resolution "640x480"

I was simply wandering because on 320x240 as they call it certain parts of the game would be outlandishly way to fast for me to handle such as for example:

The 1st time on the motorcycle minigame and at end where you woould fight a BOSS Fight past the Shinra Headquarters part of the game!!!!

Thanks and I look forward to finding out what you all have to say about this particular issue!

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Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get the game to run with vista???? I have an nVidia GeForce Go 7300 gpu 1GB Ram, 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor but all I get when I run the game is a black screen... I did a full install of the game including all the video software... Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on how to get it to run on vista?

I can't get to press the "start" button to start playing the game. Somebody help? I'm using vista.

I tried this game on Windows Vista, and it works pretty much perfect with no modifications necessary.

A few things to note for those experiencing problems with vista:

1) When the game first starts, the screen goes black and stays that way until it receives some sort of input from the keyboard... basically press any key to bring up the New Game/Continue menu.

2) When selecting from New Game or Continue, I thought the game froze, as the arrow keys did not do anything, but I dont think they are supposed to work. The keys to use for this game are on the numerical pad. Use those arrows.
If you have a laptop (or dont have a numerical keypad), you can download a patch to have the arrows work here: <http://ff7-universe.com/Downloads/ff7input.zip>

Other than that, the game should work just fine. I am running 32-bit Vista Business on a V2000 Compaq laptop.

Every time I try to open the game I get a black screen and I hear the Edios logo opening in the background. The music will stop right before the end and my entire computer crashes. I don't have a Nivida video card. I'm running it on a Sony Vaio VGN-N350E on Vista premium. I've tried to install the XP patch but I just get the same results.

Nvidia GeForce 6000+ series.

Set compatability mode to win 98/me.

Number pad patch in order to use arrows (laptop no have num pad).

Able to get black screen with sword and "new game", "continue".

Select New Game and it goes to black screen and nothing more.

Any fixes out there? What patches do I need?

Well first of all here are my specs.

Packard Bell Easynote SW51, 1.8GHz Dual Core AMD Turion 64bit, 1024GB RAM, nVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 GPU, and running on Windows Vista Home Edition.

I have done 2 installations in total on my laptop, first time round nothing worked, i had installed everything i could, i found every patch out there i could and installed em', including the XP patch even tho im running vista. everytime i opened ff7.exe it just went black for about 1 minute, and then vista prompted ''ff7.exe has stopped responding'' i sent off to microsoft about this and no explanation.

Now, i uninstalled the game because i basically couldnt be ars*d trying to work around it, but another week after i was getting withdrawal symptoms, so i gave it another go installed a fresh copy of FF7 on my laptop, tried running without the patches....still nothing, so i made a coffee and had a cigarette thinking of stuff to do to get it to work, and the simplest thing that popped to mind solved it... just right click the FF7 icon and go to properties - compatability, then just hit Windows 98/ME and apply the change. after this it worked perfect, no patches at all needed ive passed disc 1, but i still dont know if I am going to have to install the chocobo patch yet, but thats how i got it working, and so far not one flaw.

Hope this long boring story helped some of you final fantasy addicts out there, ill keep updated once i get passed the chocobo, oh btw one downfall to the PC version which is down to the publisher not the specs of your machine is on the motorbike chase after shinra HQ it goes really fast for the eyes, and proves difficult to play especially if your using the keyboard rather than gamepad.

I am having the same problems as a lot of the people here. I start the game, and get a black screen. I am press enter to bring up the New game/ continue menu. Then i can use the Function key with the numbers (for laptops) and it goes to a black screen again. Nother happens. Does anyone have a new solution not listed in here?

The game works fine for me when i run it on vista.. except that i can't hear any sound effects. At least i believe i don't, because i'm pretty certain that attacks and also in the menu there should be sound, right? Music works fine though.

if you get a black screen, install the directshow filters.
there is also an unofficial patch floating around (from animevamp ) , but i previously got good results with just qhimm's chocobo patch.

also you should take the 'full install' option ; loading movies from the cd seems to be rather slow.

FF7 works fine under Vista. The best way to do this is go to http://www.ff7-universe.com/ and get the three main patches:

1.02 Patch: Makes FF7 play nice with your modern ATI or nVidia card and drivers.

Chocobo Racing patch: Solves the "Crashes during the chocobo races" error in WinXp.

Upside-down movies patch.

Just follow the directions. Then run the program under compatability mode for Windows 98/ME or XP SP2 (either worked for me).

My only problem is sometimes there is no sound during a movie or a scene. ATI users may have problems using their display drivers however. The config file has a patch for Nvidia users (select TNT).

Couldn't get it to work for the life of me on my Thinkpad T60. XP Pro, Core 2 Duo T7200, ATI X1400 Video Card.

Downloaded the free version of Virtual PC, installed Windows 98SE and the game works fantastic. (Plus, I can play all my old games now as well.)