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Final Fantasy VII to be released again on the PC

Posted: 4th July 2012 13:04

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It's about time! Enjoy yourself thought this is going to be the one it looks like with the MIDI files

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/04/fin...is-coming-to-pc

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Posted: 4th July 2012 13:27

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Yeah, we posted news about that likelihood a couple weeks back. I'll be posting more news about it here in a few minutes, as some of the new details are worth showing to the folks who don't visit the forums. smile.gif

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Posted: 4th July 2012 20:23

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Yeah, we posted news about that likelihood a couple weeks back. I'll be posting more news about it here in a few minutes, as some of the new details are worth showing to the folks who don't visit the forums. smile.gif

Look at the system requirements its a little werid for a game that was released back in 1998.

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Posted: 21st July 2012 16:01
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[B][U]1997!!
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Posted: 21st July 2012 16:44

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[B][U]1997!!

The first PC ports of FF7 were released in 1998, actually. Roughly simultaneous release in North America and the EU according to Wikipedia, only a day between them.

But still, anything that met the bare minimum specs for FF7 back in the day would probably struggle to run Firefox today. Those tech-specs either point towards some improvements in the game, jiggery-pokery to work on the modern DirectX platforms (likely some form of emulator due to them saying it's basically a polished-up 1998 port), or it may even include whatever content delivery platform SE want for the game to be launched on: Steam and Origin both have very similar minimum requirements.

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Posted: 22nd July 2012 23:40

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I remember installing a friend's copy of FFVII on what was probably a pretty good laptop back in 2003 (IBM Thinkpad, 256 MB RAM, Windows XP, 40 GB HD, 1.3 GHz processor, or something like that).

The game would randomly crash. It's like, you could go to another Midgar map and suddenly the game would crash.

This was partly work-around-able, by simply saving early and often, but even so, there was one unavoidable crash: the game just couldn't start up the chocobo races.

Given that I've heard of other games where there are problems getting them to run on modern machines--including Thief the Dark Project / Thief Gold and I think Vampire or The Witcher--I really would like to see a PC Windows version of FFVII that works natively on a modern machine--say, a multi-core processor machine running Windows 7.

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Posted: 22nd July 2012 23:59

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I really would like to see a PC Windows version of FFVII that works natively on a modern machine--say, a multi-core processor machine running Windows 7.

That's exactly what this new version is going to be, more or less, it's just a matter of how they do it - maybe you're not considering specialized emulation to be "native," though. The original game was never intended to work on anything newer than Windows 98, but most of the crashes you mentioned were fixed by modders later on.

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