triple triad problem by Tobi on Monday March 1st 2010, 9:03 this is more of a help thing than a comment. if i want to start triple triad in the game then the program crashes can anyone help? normal battles or battle sequences working I'm sorry fpr my english. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: triple triad problem by Jack Leigh on Monday March 1st 2010, 9:51
• RE: triple triad problem by Yu Tendo on Wednesday September 22nd 2010, 7:57

Different mode of execution brief by José Roberto García Chico on Tuesday January 6th 2009, 10:11 In hardware accelerated mode, the sound works fine but the textures are shown with wrong colors. In software rendered mode, the sound works with short silences. Textures are shown with the correct colors. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Different mode of execution brief by Michael King on Tuesday January 6th 2009, 11:59

by Mikko Hursti on Saturday November 17th 2007, 5:20 This game used to work with my old hardware. Now I can't even run FF8Config. It just opens the wine desktop window and gives you this line: fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x34f7ec,0x00000000), stub! Then nothin happens. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall many times. I'm running wine 0.9.49 on Debian etch [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Paul on Friday September 26th 2008, 16:54

• RE: by Paul on Friday September 26th 2008, 17:05

Battle Problem by Josh on Friday July 14th 2006, 23:08 this is more of a help thing than a comment, umm do any of you have a problem with the battle sequence? as soon as a battle starts, the program crashes.. can anyone help? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Battle Problem by John on Thursday January 15th 2009, 14:08

• RE: Battle Problem by Borden Liu on Wednesday November 11th 2009, 5:35

• RE: Battle Problem by Jack Leigh on Monday September 27th 2010, 10:46

sound still is trouble by Harry Bullen on Thursday June 29th 2006, 18:16 Okay first I had to put eax.dll in WINDOWS/. not WINDOWS/System32/. that was implied. Also I could not find eax.dll on any windows computer I own (all win XP) so I found it online. Finally the sound stuttered during the opening movie very much like it dose for diablo II movies. Anyways I was using wine 0.9.15 on a Gentoo amd64. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: sound still is trouble by Harry Bullen on Thursday June 29th 2006, 18:39

• RE: sound still is trouble by Lauri Tirkkonen on Friday June 30th 2006, 9:01

• RE: sound still is trouble by Borden Liu on Wednesday November 11th 2009, 4:13

Completely playable by Lauri Tirkkonen on Saturday June 24th 2006, 11:52 On Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, I managed to get everything except D3D acceleration working. Here's how. I copied the following native dll's to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32: dmband.dll dmime.dll dmloader.dll dmstyle.dll dmsynth.dll dmusic.dll eax.dll Next, I added all of the above (apart from eax, though I figure it won't hurt) to the libraries tab in winecfg and set sound to 'Emulation' in the Sound tab. Lastly, using FF8Config, I switched to Software Renderer, inserted a game CD and ran FF8.exe. Software mode might look a bit ugly to some, but the game is perfectly playable. [post new] [reply to this]

Patches for Graphical Problems by Boom on Monday March 27th 2006, 10:25 Here's a link to a Eidos FAQ on Final Fantasy 8: www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/support/search.html?gmid=52 Patch for computers NOT RUNNING nVidia cards (The patch is in .zip format, extract all files directly into the FF8 install directory. Be sure that all files are copied over.) ftp.eidos.co.uk/pub/uk/final_fantasy_8/patches/FF8EidosEng.ZIP Patch for computers THAT ARE RUNNING nVidia cards (The patch is in .zip format, extract all files directly into the FF8 install directory. Be sure that all files are copied over.) ftp.eidos.co.uk/pub/uk/final_fantasy_8/patches/FF8EidosEngNVPatch.zip [post new] [reply to this]

Works...sort of by Tony Upton on Sunday October 16th 2005, 9:16 After trying for some time to figure out how to get the PC version of this game to run with Wine, I've figured out how to get it at least partially working (with Wine 20050930 on Fedora Core 3, using a "no-Windows" setup). Here's what I had to do: 1. Install Final Fantasy 8 from the installation CD, using the following commands: mount /media/cdrecorder (if your CD-ROM has a different mount point, use that instead) cd /media/cdrecorder wine SETUP.EXE --winver win98 2. Copy the following files from a Windows installation (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32) to the /windows/system32 folder in your "fake Windows" installation (in my case, /home/tony/.wine/drive_c/): dmusic.dll dmsynth.dll eax.dll 3. Unmount and remove the installation CD and insert game CD #1. 4. Run the "FF8Config" program (wine FF8Config.exe). I didn't have to change any settings there to make the game work. 5. Start the game with the following command: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dmusic=n,dmsynth=n" wine FF8.exe At this point, there are still several problems I'm trying to work on: -Some graphical glitches, mostly during battles. -Video is slow and choppy. -Sound is choppy (when present), most of the time there's no sound at all. If I have any further success with this game, I'll post my results here. [post new] [reply to this]