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For the heck of it the other day I loaded up Final Fantasy VII on my PC because I felt like playing it. I remember when it first came out my friend was an avid Final Fantasy player and I pretty much didn't even play RPG games at the time with one exception, Fallout. Anyway I remember being blown away by the awesome graphics at the time, and also have since played many RPG games, and many more games with RPG elements. At any rate I was feeling some nostalgia and wanted to remember what these amazing graphics looked like. Everything installed just fine, but then the issue came up. I was trying to configure the game to use 3D graphics as opposed to software and for some reason at the bottom of the config for 3D it calls for 8 bit textures or something like that (don't have it in front of me for reference). So then I thought, well my laptop is pretty old and has a Radeon 9700 in it, perhaps that supports it, NOPE. So then I tried to find the solution to this issue, perhaps there is an update or something to the software that fixes it. Well there are patches for the software, but they only deal with sound. I mean, yeah I could play the game in software mode, but that wasn't the point to me even loading it up. This is rather disappointing and strange, I have never heard of an old game that won't play on a new system because of the hardware, and I am certainly not going to run a virtual machine just for one old game, has anyone else dealt with this issue or perhaps a similar one?
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It looks like there is a page with a lot of the fixes you are talking about for modern computers.
http://fem1.uniag.sk/Miroslav.Jezik/ff7ncopam.html
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I remember the foibles of this game. I traded an old copy of Need for Speed for it. I remember being a bit disappointed, mainly because Square didn't upres the cut scenes very well, so there were a lot if artifacts in every scene that had a lot of black in it.
I seem to remember that you couldn't finish the game because of glitches. I wonder if that was true.
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@bombatomba: The thing that killed it for me was that I had this rocking video card (Voodoo2) and the gameplay looked great, but the cutscenes were crap! It looked like they kept the PlayStation FMV videos (along with their quality).
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Nice page, that may help to fix my problem, thanks bickman2k!
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I had a lot of messing around to get it to work on my PC, my biggest disappointment with it was the music was all midi and didn't sound anywhere near as good as the PS1 version.
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Yeah, unless you are planning to play the game in Win9x with the hardware it was intended for it is really a poor mans PS1 port. The port could have been much better and makes the PS1 version the best bet.
Nothing improves the FMV unfortunately but with a video card from that era, visually the rest looked good.
On the sound side you really need the correct SoundBlaster card so the game can use the SoundFont intended so you don't end up with horribly generic midis.
Last but not least a CPU slow enough because there is no throttling in the mini games so they would be unplayable on a modern CPU.
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