First post, by RAMChYLD
Hi,
First of all, I'm new here, so please don't flame me if this has come up before - I already tried searching the forums but was overwhelmed with thousands of irrelevant results.
I just picked up Final Fantasy 8 for the PC last week. While I have successfully got it to install and have done some permission settings to get it to run in limited user mode, I'm having graphical issues with the game. The game would display black boxes all over the screen at random spots. Applying all the patches did not help. I have searched the net and all replies point to a hardware issue - apparently the 7800GTs I have in the computer no longer supports something called palletized textures, which Final Fantasy 8 relied heavily upon.
I would like to know if there are any programs out there that would allow me to emulate palletized texture support on the cards. I would rather not open up the system to swap cards in and out (the system is very fickle and prefers that people not mess with it's innards). Software rendering works, but I lose SLI and anti-aliasing. Also, I'm unable to get it to detect the hardware MIDI/soundfont support on my SoundBlaster X-Fi (which I recall reading that the game supports). The only MIDI option I get is the software based Microsoft Synthesizer.
Any help would be appriciated, or if all fails, I guess I'm stuck with software everything, which is a pity.
Thanks.