Is there a Vista patch?

[Skyblade]

I've been having trouble running FFVII in Vista. It starts out ok, but Cloud vanished when I went to the game's second area (when AVALANCHE is clustered near the door, before you name him). He reappeared after the first battle I got in running randomly around in there. The music has gone wonky a couple of times, though that could be just my settings, but then the game quit before I reached the first save point. Since I haven't had any of these trouble before, I'm attributing them to Vista. Anyone know if there is a Vista patch yet?

[Necronopticous]

The Vista patch is Windows XP.

Nothing works in Vista.

[aquatius]

Uninstall Vista, get XP. All problems solved.

[d£v!l'$ ph0£n!x]

that seems like rather a roundabout solution. if you still hvae ur old PC then try just running it on that. until the patch comes out (if it even does) i guess there isn't a solution

[ReloadPsi]

Alternatively you can illegally download and emulate the PSX version... assuming you can find the ISOs for it anyway. And assuming you can find an emulator that works with Vista.

[Rokk]

Just a suggestion. Try right-clicking on the program EXE Properties, and go to the compatibility tab. Then check 'run in compatility' and choose Windows XP from the droplist. See if that works .

[edczxcvbnm]

Don't listen to them XD Download and install Virtual PC and install windows 98 in a new instance...assuming you have a windows 98 or 95 disc around that you can use that is :D It works for me for running all of my old games but I go hardcore with Virtual Server because I have nothing better to do than eat system resources XD

[Max]

It really wasn't even meant to run in XP. If you have the PSX Version, just get a PSX emulator and use your game discs.

[KoShiatar]

Humm, not that I know of, but perhaps you could require one here.

[Baloki]

Help forum would have won this battle by now

[KoShiatar]

Hum, I'm not sure about that. It is help related to the game after all, but Skyblade could ask having it moved if he feels he's got more chances to find help that way.

[Skyblade]

There's a help forum? ...Hey, there is! Neato. I guess this should be moved then.

[Baloki]

Have you applied the following patches:
http://www.eyesonff.com/ff7/files/riva_TNT.exe (Only needed if you use a nVidia Card)
and
http://www.eyesonff.com/ff7/files/FFVIIXP.zip

Once you've applied those do as D33p Darkn3ss said:

Just a suggestion. Try right-clicking on the program EXE Properties, and go to the compatibility tab. Then check 'run in compatility' and choose Windows XP from the droplist. See if that works .

[Skyblade]

*Smacks head* I totally forgot about compatability options. Not that I expect it to work, since Vista sucks, but I'll give it a try anyway once I get home. Thanks for the advice, Baloki and D33p.

[Baloki]

*Smacks head* I totally forgot about compatability options. Not that I expect it to work, since Vista sucks, but I'll give it a try anyway once I get home. Thanks for the advice, Baloki and D33p.

Just don't forget you'll need the XP patch for it to work