Final Fantasy 7 Win 2k problem

[tarun713 0]

I'm running Win2k currently with a GeForce4 MX 420. The game runs fine except FMV's don't show. It wasn't a big deal for me, as I've played the game before and know what the FMV's are like. But now I'm up to North Corel, getting on the railway to Gold Saucer, and There are 6 FMV's in a row - and that's where the screen goes blank and doesn't recover. Usually, for the FMV's it just skips them, flickers a black screen for a second, and moves on. But I guess with more than one in a row something wacky goes on, and it doesn't resume gameplay.

 

I've tried installing the DirectShow drivers off of the install disc, I've opened the FMV's right off the cd in windows media player (and they run fine, sound and picture), and I've even tried installing the chocobo patch, all in vain. I'm running the latest version of DirectX as well, and have updated my video card drivers.

 

Any suggestions?

 

EDIT: Oh yeah, I've done all the service pack stuff too listed in a previous topic about this. I followed the instructions from the FF7 documentation project site.

[Linuxboy00 0]

You said your running the latest Direct X.. You mean 8.1 right and not the beta of 9? Also, what version of the video drivers are you using? 40's or 30's? if your using detenator drivers from NVIDIA.

[tarun713 0]

I am running DirectX 8.1b. How do I find out which video drivers I am using? Where in device manager?

 

EDIT: ah, here's the info I see under display adapters in device manager for my video card:

 

Provider: NVIDIA

Driver Date: 7/16/02

Driver Version: 3.0.8.2

 

In driver file details, all the NVIDIA provided files have a version of 6.13.10.3082

[Linuxboy00 0]

Try uninstalling those and downloading the 40.72 drivers and give them a try. ftp://download1.nvidia.com/Windows/40.72/40.72_win2kxp.exe

[tarun713 0]

tried em, still no go