Reported by Anonymous

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System: Acer Aspire 9300; AMD Turion 64X2 1.6; Nvidia GeForce Go 6100; Realtek audio

After original install. Game only went to New Game or Continue. Then dreaded black screen.

Installed the first three patches from this site http://wiki.qhimm.com/FF7/Technical/Customising

Chocobo Races Patch
FF7 v1.02 Official Patch
TrueMotion 2.0 Codec

Ran FFVII Configuration utility.

Under Graphics:
Direct3D Hardware Acceleration
Nvida
TNT

Under Sound:
Left it alone

Under Midi:
- Changed Midi Data to Yamaha XG Midi and was missing sound in some parts, and the battle song was sometimes delayed.
- Chanded MIDI Data to General MIDI and game runs completly flawlessly.

Hope this helps.

Reported by Anonymous

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I agree with the person two above me, download the codec (the third download option) from http://wiki.qhimm.com/FF7/Technical/Customising (and the other patches will probably help too) and it'll work. Good luck playing!

Reported by Anonymous

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I have the following specs on my PC:

MoBo: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P

Processor: Intel(R) Core2Duo(TM) CPU E6420 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs)

Memory: 2046MB RAM

Hard Drive: 250 GB Western Digital SATAII 8MB, 250 GB Western Digital SATAII 16MB

Video Card: HIS Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB Turbo 590MHz

Monitor: 19" Samsung 931C LDC Monitor

Sound Card: C-Media USB Headphone Set

Speakers/Headphones: C-Media USB Headphone Set

Keyboard: Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

Mouse: Logitech USB Mouse

Operating System:
Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)

All I get is a black screen and the music playing the sound from the first movie loaded.

Reported by Anonymous

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I got the blank screen after i hit the new game option this is when the movie should start but didnt so i did some searching and the answer is to download a codec from here:

http://wiki.qhimm.com/FF7/Technical/Customising

Once U installed this the game worked! and U was so happy hope this helps the rest of you.

Reported by Anonymous

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Im using windows 2000 professional. And always when i try run Final Fantasy VII im just getting a black screen?... i have downloaded all the patches what i have found but still not working.? whats the problem?..
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
System: Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
BIOS: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP300+, ~2,2GHz
Memory: 1536MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c
Graphics card: GeForce FX59000XT

I have a problem just like you are. I can play FF7 with my 9800 pro without problem but when I change my video card to x1950pro FF7 can not run anymore.

Reported by Anonymous

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I Have Windows XP, It runs perfectly until I get to the part when I Mount in the Rope car In Mt. Corel. I See three videos and in the third the car stops in the entrance of The Gold Saucer and the screen turns black. I can quit the game and everything, but nothing happens from there, just a black screen. Maybe a Broken video??? I don't know because the videos run perfectly (except that sometimes the sound dissappear) I have Windows XP Professional and a GeForce Fx5200. It's a little weird don't you think???

Reported by Anonymous

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Im using windows 2000 profesional. And allways when i try run Final Fantasy VII im just getting a black screen?... i have downloaded all the patches what i have found but still not working.? whats the problem?..
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
System: Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
BIOS: Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP300+, ~2,2GHz
Memory: 1536MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c
Graphics card: GeForce FX59000XT

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I have the same problem, the black screen sword

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I found that after installing vista, the game isn't detecting the sound driver. The sound has to be selected manually from config, or the game will crash immediately, and so will config.

Reported by Anonymous

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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.)

Reported by Anonymous

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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).

Reported by Anonymous

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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.

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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.

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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?

Reported by Anonymous

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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.

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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?

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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.

Reported by Anonymous

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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.

Reported by Anonymous

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