For the heck of it the other day I loaded up Final Fantasy VII on my PC because I felt like playing it. I remember when it first came out my friend was an avid Final Fantasy player and I pretty much didn't even play RPG games at the time with one exception, Fallout. Anyway I remember being blown away by the awesome graphics at the time, and also have since played many RPG games, and many more games with RPG elements. At any rate I was feeling some nostalgia and wanted to remember what these amazing graphics looked like. Everything installed just fine, but then the issue came up. I was trying to configure the game to use 3D graphics as opposed to software and for some reason at the bottom of the config for 3D it calls for 8 bit textures or something like that (don't have it in front of me for reference). So then I thought, well my laptop is pretty old and has a Radeon 9700 in it, perhaps that supports it, NOPE. So then I tried to find the solution to this issue, perhaps there is an update or something to the software that fixes it. Well there are patches for the software, but they only deal with sound. I mean, yeah I could play the game in software mode, but that wasn't the point to me even loading it up. This is rather disappointing and strange, I have never heard of an old game that won't play on a new system because of the hardware, and I am certainly not going to run a virtual machine just for one old game, has anyone else dealt with this issue or perhaps a similar one?
