FFVII Reunion Pack is crap

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:51 am

Yes, but I just installed it today. But it does seem strange why it doesn't work.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:52 am

The fact of the matter is that FF7 PC is a horrific disaster of coding. It works by chance as much as anything else on Win9x systems.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:00 am

Low res, plus the code being 9x friendly (hello DOS).. you're expecting it to work? You could get away with lots more stuff under 9x than you do NT (particularly with memory)... yay for memory management that isn't braindead and boo to 9x resources that magically disappear over time.

Truth Unknown · Post by **Truth Unknown** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:33 am

Getting Final Fantasy VII PC to work on a NT environment is painful. I've had different installs of XP and Vista where the game worked and didn't work on the same PC.

Anyway, have you tried looking though this FAQ for any source of help? There is also a 4x resolution (1280x960) mod somewhere on the site if you want to try, I don't know how well it works.

On another note, FFVIIPC can be played at 640x480, but videos and fields (towns and such) are only at 320x240 with no filtering. The Menus and 3D rendered areas are only enhanced. FFVIIIPC was the only game to have full 640x480 support, including videos which are quite fun to watch but the codec (Bink) crashes randomly. Unfortunately the game has bad color translation from the PS bit depth to the PC's capable bit depths. The menu windows are somewhat ugly to look at.

EDIT: I think on the box I had, for FFVIIPC, it states "For Windows 95." That may be important to know.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:00 am

I notice you have an NVIDIA card. Have you messed around with the graphics options? Again, follow instructions here: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=2670.0

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:36 pm

Yep, did that and still no luck.

leilei · Post by **leilei** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:35 pm

Just play it in software mode, thats how ff7 is intended to look anyway.
Nvidia cards suck because no it's not the 'palletted textures' support, it's actually how mangled up their DirectX5/6/7 compatibility is in their post-July-2004 Forceware drivers.
If you have onboard video on your motherboard, even that may have a better chance of being more compatible with FF7 than your Geforce card.

SmartOne · Post by **SmartOne** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:13 pm

http://savvygeek.com/2007/10/05/final-f ... red-glory/

That's the best site I found when installing FFVII.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:41 pm

*looks at site*

"Final Fantasy 7 is almost universally declared to be one of the greatest role-playing games of all time."
Universally among people that never played an RPG before that, and became shameless Square whores after that, sure.
Outside of that rather loud market segment, there's a lot of debate.

" and the graphics would only display up to 640×480 resolution." as opposed to being locked at 320*240? It's a port of a Playstation game, for pete's sake.

SmartOne · Post by **SmartOne** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:43 pm

Apart for the editorial, the tutorial is good.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:44 pm

I've seen a lot of people who were console RPG players before FF7 claiming it to be the best RPG ever.

Regardless, it's not deserving of best ever, if only for the damned translation.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:50 pm

I.S.T. wrote:I've seen a lot of people who were console RPG players before FF7 claiming it to be the best RPG ever.

Regardless, it's not deserving of best ever, if only for the damned translation.

It's a far from universal opinion once you get out of that specific market.
Certainly, there's some that think it's the best ever.
There's also some that think Earthbound is the best ever.
And some that think Valkyrie Profile is the best ever.
And some that think FF6 is the best ever.
And some that think Chrono Trigger is the best ever.
And some that think Lunar 2 is the best ever.
And so on.

Now, what does universal mean?

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:52 pm

I wasn't disputing that, just that there are those who were RPGers before FF7 who think it's the best RPG ever.

SmartOne · Post by **SmartOne** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:56 pm

The topic "Best RPG ever" is really stale.

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:11 pm

... sez the guy who brought it up.

SmartOne · Post by **SmartOne** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:02 pm

Except I didn't "bring it up."

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:53 pm

I.S.T. wrote:I wasn't disputing that, just that there are those who were RPGers before FF7 who think it's the best RPG ever.

I never said there weren't. Just that there's a lot more debate once you get out of the Square whores that started with FF7.