Summary

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.

get a Dr Watson error message whenever I run the config utility or try and enter the game

What I want to know is, how can some people claim that this game is green, and that they played all the way through the game, when Square has OFFICIALLY stated that the game WILL crash on Win2000/XP at the Chocobo races (at the least, I might add)?! Not maybe. It will. Which means that the game is effectively unplayable on these OS's, since it can't be completed. For those who haven't tried it yet, ignore the others who have claimed this as green and spare yourself the hours of aggravation and wasted effort that I went through trying to get it to work before Square's announcement. Some result submitters are just morons.

Received the follow messages: 1) Played through the entire game under WinXP Beta 2 Build 2463 and it worked perfectly; compatibility mode WAS NOT used. The test system was a p3 866, 256 RAM and a Voodoo3 3000, based on a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 mobo. 2) Will use USB joysticks. Crashes on Chocobo races. 3) What I want to know is, how can some people claim that this game is green, and that they played all the way through the game, when Square has OFFICIALLY stated that the game WILL crash on Win2000/XP at the Chocobo races (at the least, I might add)?! Not maybe. It will. Which means that the game is effectively unplayable on these OS's, since it can't be completed. 4) need codecmaj.exe http://www.eidos-france.fr/support/search.html?gmid=47 5) Didn't work at first but I changed a few things and finaly got it running smooth. First just try changing the installation so the optinal game components are not selected this may work so just try it... thats how I got it to work. I am using a Geforce 2 MX400 I had a little trouble but the FFVIII Nvidia patch from the Edios site cleared that up

There is a unofficial patch. Download this and run the app and the races should work.

Works fine.

Just install the game, apply these patches:
http://www.qhimm.com/ff7_chocobo_patch.zip
http://ftp.eidos.com/pub/patches/final_fantasy7/riva_TNT.exe (might not need this, but...)
http://ftp.eidos.com/pub/patches/final_fantasy7/ff7betap1.exe

And run the game in Win98/ME compatibility mode (this fixes the world map memory leak).

Works perfectly, i just put the patch for geforce video cards to prevent some early detected bugs

System specs: Intel P4 3Ghz on Intel 845PE, 512Mb RAM, Geforce 4 Ti4600, Sound Blaster, using NTFS.

The game works if you install these two fixes. (including the 3d mini-games and the chocobo races)
Fix #1
Fix #2

There are a few graphical glitches if you use FSAA or anisotropic filtering. The text isn't as great looking as on a Voodoo card, I am currently looking for a voodoo/glide emulator.

On the tech support website it states the game will work the same way with a radeon and you must install the two patches mentionned above.

The games works like charm, never had problems with the chocobo races

My (needed) steps:

1. Install ;-)

2. Install Directshow (Movieplayer) from the FF7 CD (to see the Moviesquences

3. Install the UpsideDownMovie patch: http://ftp.eidos.com/pub/patches/final_fantasy7/ff7betap1.exe

4. Get theWindows Application Compatibility Toolkit 3.0 (search Microsoft.com)

5. Start the ACT hit fix, Enter Name and Publisher (FF7//Squaresoft and browse to the ff7.exe Hit next. Select None, hit next, enable: Shrinker, EmulateWriteFile,Virtual Registry. Hit Next. SelectAll and then finish. Run should do it now!
(thanks to: http://www.ffseven.com/faq.php).

6. I don't know whether you need the chocoborace patch afterwards (or before), since i just get it to work yesterday.. If you expirience crash at the chocoborace: http://www.qhimm.com/ff7_chocobo_patch.zip

7. You may also consider: http://www.eidosinteractive.com/support/search.html?gmid=44

8. I have little graphic glitches, when using HardwareAcceleration, the fonts look a bit clumsy, but works fine in both software or hardware rendering.

First attempt without installing DirectShow drivers included on CD but with DX9 gave black screen. Configuration utility shows nothing wrong.

Second attempt with DirectShow drivers - works like a charm to play, including bike minigame and videos. CTD at Chocobo race.

Third attempt using the "FF7 Unofficial Chocobo Patch", unsupported but mentioned on EIDOS' website, chocobo races and everything else works.

Works fine under 2k3 if you use all of the appropriate xp patches.

Using 2k3 Enterprise Edition with an nVida Quadro2 MXR and an Opteron 144 CPU.

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