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There's actually an official patch for the game that fixes crashing at the chocobo races. You can find it here: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/finalfantasy7/downloads.html Good luck!

I just threw in my ghetto Voodoo3 card so I can play Final Fantasy VII after forever, found the best 3rd party drivers for WinXP, but can't seem to find the 3DFX tools so I can tweak the setting. Used to use something I think was called "3DFX Underground Tools" that let me overclock and everything. Anyone know where I can find the software? Been searching the web for hours with no success.

Yeah, his site's still up and running great! Looks like I'll have to use some older drivers though to get full use of VControl. Back to the good old AmigaMerlin drivers. For some reason my computer kept restarting using those Alpha Drivers, and the VoodooXtreme ones I have won't let me adjust the settings in VControl. Willing to compromise it all to play a classic game with beautiful graphics. Thanks again for your help.

Dang Relic, you pretty much rule. Never had anyone be so helpful over a forum to me. Thanks a TON!!! Oh, and turns out the Underground Tools I had used forever ago is actually called VControl. You indirectly led me to where I could download that too, so thanks!

Yeah, voodoofiles used to be the sweet site to get anything 3DFX, but now they've gone down the gutter. Most their links don't work, and their downloads pages are riddled with downloads for non related stuff. On top of all that, they simply don't have the tools I need anymore. I coulda sworn they used to, but heh, it's as life goes I suppose...

Yeah, and I've been to all of those. None of them have the XP compatible 3DFX Underground Tools. Just a bunch of old tweaking guides and ghetto 3DFX tools for 9x.

Unfortunately, ATI never added support with their new RADEON drivers for the 8-bit palleted textures, so the only way to play FF7 with a RADEON in hardware is too install the riva_TNT patch made for the game. The patch makes it ignore the 8-bit compatability issue, but the game will still look like crap. I Just threw my ghetto Voodoo3 card in my computer myself just so I could play FF7 lookin pretty. Still trying desperately to find the old 3DFX underground tools though... grrr! Anyways, you can probably find the riva TNT patch by doing a simple engine search. Good luck!