FF7 On Steam?

[Tom]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/39140/

Oh my god am I tempted. If it were on linux, that would be an immediate sale. No questions asked. As it is... Maybe later.

[Mr. Analog]

Holy crap! For $12!!

Is it the same or updated?

[Tom]

I hope its updated.. It ran like absolute crap on my P2 with a TNT2. Why? Because my computer was too fast. And it only had special acceleration code for the TNT1 card

[Mr. Analog]

From what I can tell it's been optimized for PC

[Tom]

They'd have had to make changes to the engine. probably a new engine. the old one was absolute crap back when I played it, and that was a year or two after it came out.

I wish it was based on the psx engine because there's a few bugs I'd like to exploit that didn't exist in the pc engine.

[Mr. Analog]

I'm guessing this is a remake for PC rather than an emulation, but I can't be sure.

[Tom]

There was already a remake for the PC. Which is what I was mostly talking about.

I actually got a copy of the PC version when it came out, but my computer at the time only had a Mach64, which wasn't even close to enough to be able to play it. Then I got a new computer a year or so later that had too much power because that stupid engine used busy waits and sleeps to time stuff  and it wasn't timed by actual time, but cpu time, so faster cpu == faster stuff. it was kinda nice for some of the animation sequences you couldn't skip.. but eh.

[Mags]

"Optimized for PC ? FINAL FANTASY VII has been updated to support the latest hardware and Windows Operating Systems.
"

[Tom]

I was just wondering if they used the same code from the Eidos port.

[Mags]

I was just wondering if they used the same code from the Eidos port.

"[IG]CelticDog   1 hour ago     
Its the 1998 PC version with terrible cloud saving features and a few achievements. The audio may also sound god awful unless you change the sound files. I managed to address all the initial frustrations by disabling cloud save and swapping the audio... Long story short, SquareEnix dropped the ball on this, and its just a Steam edition of the 2012 re-release(1998 PC version with cloud saving) they did on their site."

Lot's of complaints on the forums, but quite a few running it fine. So, sound's like the timing issue was fixed, but a lot of other problems, not so much.

[Tom]

Ok, so less interested now.