Help me get FF8 running!
December 13, 2005 3:02 PM Subscribe
Help me get Final Fantasy VIII working (WinXP Pro). It freezes during the EIDOS Interactive intro movie, causing CPU usage to go to 100%.
As stated, I can't get pass the intro. I have a GeForce 6800GT, Athlon somethingmorethanIneedtoplaythis 64, and 1GB of RAM on WinXP Pro. No errors in Event Viewer.
I have tried "Run this program in compatability mode:" for all available options -- same result.
This is driving me crazy, I never finished the game on the Playstation and thought I'd pick it back up on the PC.
Is there a switch "-nostupidintromovie" that I can use to turn this off? Or might this be a problem for all in-game movies?
As stated, I can't get pass the intro. I have a GeForce 6800GT, Athlon somethingmorethanIneedtoplaythis 64, and 1GB of RAM on WinXP Pro. No errors in Event Viewer.
I have tried "Run this program in compatability mode:" for all available options -- same result.
This is driving me crazy, I never finished the game on the Playstation and thought I'd pick it back up on the PC.
Is there a switch "-nostupidintromovie" that I can use to turn this off? Or might this be a problem for all in-game movies?
Are you playing the computer version of FF8 or the Playstation version on an emulator? I had the computer version a couple years ago and had similar problems with freezes during movies (although I never had a problem with the intro movie, and my computer was much worse than yours).
Anyway, if you aren't already using it, I'd give ePSXe along with a disc image of the Playstation game a try. I've played most of FF9 on my current computer using ePSXe, and it all went smoothly.
posted by puffin at 3:14 PM on December 13, 2005
Anyway, if you aren't already using it, I'd give ePSXe along with a disc image of the Playstation game a try. I've played most of FF9 on my current computer using ePSXe, and it all went smoothly.
posted by puffin at 3:14 PM on December 13, 2005
Response by poster: I already had the patch installed, sorry I didn't mention it. This is the computer version, I'd rather not run the emulator just yet.
posted by geoff. at 3:18 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by geoff. at 3:18 PM on December 13, 2005
Are you sure this is Final Fantasy VIII, or rather, 8? For the North American PC version, Final Fantasy 8 was published by EA, and 7 was published by Eidos.
Or, is the emotionally tortured pretty boy main character's spiky hair blonde (7) or brown (8)?
posted by Durhey at 3:45 PM on December 13, 2005
Or, is the emotionally tortured pretty boy main character's spiky hair blonde (7) or brown (8)?
posted by Durhey at 3:45 PM on December 13, 2005
Response by poster: Yes it is FF8. Well good news is I turned off high quality videos, which skipped the Eidos video. The bad news is that instead of being transparent, the textures have black squares around them -- making it pretty hard to play. I think this might be an exercise in futility.
posted by geoff. at 3:57 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by geoff. at 3:57 PM on December 13, 2005
Response by poster: Aha okay I also had to disable Direct3D in dxdiag to fix that, which actually creates other problems -- but not as big as this one. Wow 6 year old games cause this much trouble?
posted by geoff. at 4:02 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by geoff. at 4:02 PM on December 13, 2005
I'm not sure it helps, but I remember that the video format for FF8 PC is Bink Video. Maybe install that?
posted by awesomebrad at 4:11 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by awesomebrad at 4:11 PM on December 13, 2005
Incidentally, if it is 7, Eidos washes their hands of supporting any OS after Win 95, and instead points users to an unofficial patch here which claims to get the game 100% operational with XP. I haven't tried it myself, though.
On preview: I find it very odd that FF8 has an Eidos intro video. I worked at EA when they were publishing it. It looks like a video card issue. You might try some older drivers (or newer if you aren't already using the newest), or switching to your motherboard's onboard video card, if it has one, though that may be more trouble than it's worth.
posted by Durhey at 4:23 PM on December 13, 2005
On preview: I find it very odd that FF8 has an Eidos intro video. I worked at EA when they were publishing it. It looks like a video card issue. You might try some older drivers (or newer if you aren't already using the newest), or switching to your motherboard's onboard video card, if it has one, though that may be more trouble than it's worth.
posted by Durhey at 4:23 PM on December 13, 2005
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Patch from Actiontrip
Great game- I personally played it on a PC all the way through without much problems after patching (there were some slow-down moments and a couple of crashes.)
posted by Sallysings at 3:12 PM on December 13, 2005