Hey guys. New to the forums. I've tried running ff7 on multiple different computers for ages and finally decided it's time to find some help online. From research alone, I see I'm not the only one that has had issues running this game.
I've installed ePSXe on my Toshiba Tecra 9000 (Windows XP OS) and the emulator itself runs fine. When first playing the game the battle swirl, battle box, cursor, and everything else was fine but it was like the game was in slow motion, audio and all. So I proceeded to go through each video plugin. I should mention the screen itself is too small and doesn't fit the laptop screen for each of these but I believe that's a resolution fix right? So that can be fixed later.
Pete's Open GL 1.76 - Start up is just a black screen. You can hear the intro music.
Pete's DX6 D3D 1.77 - No pointing cursor. Just a weird pixel line where it is supposed to be. Also no battle swirl or battle box. Besides those issues it runs smooth.
P.E.Op.S. Soft 1.18 - No battle swirl or battle box. Real laggy. Screen is super small.
Pete's D3D 1.76 - No pointing cursor, again just has the weird pixel line in place of that. No battle swirl or box, and when enemies die and turn red in battle it skips or jumps.
Pete's openGL2 2.9 - Immediately pops up an error box saying NO WGL Extention and crashes everything, shrinks my actual os screen on the desktop, and I have to restart PC.
Pete's TNT 1.24 (I dl this one to attempt to see if it worked) - Black screen on start up. Can hear intro music.
Any help would be really appreciated. My friend actually got this running on my desktop ONCE back in the day and the PC has been reformatted since and I could never get it working again. I have read that this actually works a bit better on older devices and OS, so that's one reason I'm doing the laptop, other reason being I'd like to have it on my portable device.
I've installed ePSXe on my Toshiba Tecra 9000 (Windows XP OS) and the emulator itself runs fine. When first playing the game the battle swirl, battle box, cursor, and everything else was fine but it was like the game was in slow motion, audio and all. So I proceeded to go through each video plugin. I should mention the screen itself is too small and doesn't fit the laptop screen for each of these but I believe that's a resolution fix right? So that can be fixed later.
Pete's Open GL 1.76 - Start up is just a black screen. You can hear the intro music.
Pete's DX6 D3D 1.77 - No pointing cursor. Just a weird pixel line where it is supposed to be. Also no battle swirl or battle box. Besides those issues it runs smooth.
P.E.Op.S. Soft 1.18 - No battle swirl or battle box. Real laggy. Screen is super small.
Pete's D3D 1.76 - No pointing cursor, again just has the weird pixel line in place of that. No battle swirl or box, and when enemies die and turn red in battle it skips or jumps.
Pete's openGL2 2.9 - Immediately pops up an error box saying NO WGL Extention and crashes everything, shrinks my actual os screen on the desktop, and I have to restart PC.
Pete's TNT 1.24 (I dl this one to attempt to see if it worked) - Black screen on start up. Can hear intro music.
Any help would be really appreciated. My friend actually got this running on my desktop ONCE back in the day and the PC has been reformatted since and I could never get it working again. I have read that this actually works a bit better on older devices and OS, so that's one reason I'm doing the laptop, other reason being I'd like to have it on my portable device.
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