I have a dell 9300 with a geforce 6800go and whenever I play Final Fantasy 7 PC version the videos are all really slow. I've tried different codecs with varying degrees of slowness and even tried the registry hack where you can drag the movies from cd and play them off your hard drive. However, they still run slow so its not the cd. My computer should definitely be able to play it and the videos themselves play fine when you use a video player at full screen. They are AVI files encoded with some old codec. I've tried converting them to mpeg files but they play jerky instead of slow. I've tried uncompressing them into PCM files and they play slow still. I've tried reinstalling my video drivers. Still slow. The only way I can fix it is to set the game display mode to 320x240. The video plays alright now but the game itself is so freakin squarey it makes me throw up. So what should I do now? Anyone had this problem and know how to fix it?

It seems that the video is intended to play at 320x240, the game is probably using internal software for it's rendering which means that trying to render outside of anything but the original rez will cause either slowness or choppy playback, there's no real way to fix this unless you can find a option to use your own PC graphics renderer.

Try getting it for PSX?

I bought this game a long time ago, back when I got a new acer computer with a 150mhz computer back in 1997. The videos ran choppy on that, back from then on all my succeeding computers up to the one I have do not have problems playing the video no matter what the resolution and I don't see why it would. My friend is trying to play the game and I installed it on his computer but all the videos run choppy. His specs are good as you can read above so it can't be hardware based. Anyone who has experienced this issue know how to fix it? I would buy the psx version but I don't have a psx at my dorm and wny not fix it right now since I have the game.

You can sell your PC version on ebay and buy a PS2 and a copy of FFVII with money to spare.

like I say, unless you can change it from onboard graphics rendering to hardwear rendering then you may not have very much luck I'm afraid. Have you checked any other places than here for an answer?

There are a few impossible codecs you will need to aquire,

Currently software is trying to render the videos under incorrect codecs, which in turn results in bad playback try to find a codec called Duck true motion 2.0 or microsoft Direct show package.

neither are still in production nor are they supported but this is the only possible way to get FMV working properley

goodluck

EDIT: also have the FFVII XP patch installed and the upside down FMV patch which can help.

Not that is is relevent to the FMV, but get the choco patch to or you will run into problems.

I just had another idea also, are you using a Dual core processor or SLI graphics because the data threads would be split up then resulting in choppy timing for a game intended to use bulk threads on a singular processor with 1997 harware.

oooooooo, beats the crap outta my replies.