First post, by aspiringnobody
Hello all --
I'm hoping someone out there has some experience with this game -- because I had it working on my old windows 95 PC, but my new "upgraded" windows 95 PC crashes either during or after battle. I've tried with and without the 1.02 patch and with and without the Cyrix patch, but I have the same issue. If I have the K6-2 installed, the game runs great, but crashes. If I put a Pentium MMX in the PC it doesn't crash, or at least not nearly as often. No software changes.
On the Square website there is a KB article that states crashing after battle is a video driver issue -- I tried with the K6-2 in software rendering mode and sure enough, no crashes. So something about the combination of Voodoo 2 and K6-2 is causing a crash in FF7. The machine will loop the Unreal timedemo for several hours with no issues -- so I don't think it's an issue with the voodoo itself. It also is the same card that came out of the "old" windows 95 PC.
If anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it. I've tried everything I know including using CTU to disable all the K6-2 write combining features and the like. the K6-2 is a 450MHz model but I'm running it at 4x66 for 266MHz as a have a PII 450MHz windows 98SE box. I wanted something slower.
Thanks!