No clue. With how new Vista is, I'll not have any clue until I get it myself, which won't be for a while.

Also, you'll need to provide us more details if you want even any basic suggestions.

I'm in the same boat and I believe he's having the same problem I am. When I run FF8 the screen resolution jumps down to 640x480, goes fullscreen, but only shows a black screen. The monitor isn't off (the light stays green instead of standby orange) so it's hard to say what's happening.

AFAIK, none of us here have Vista, so the best I can suggest is to see if Vista offers a Compatibility Mode, and set that to Win98 if it does.

Compatability mode doesn't work, either. To get my fix I installed VMware and run a Windows XP virtual machine so I can play. Not the easiest solution (not really a solution at all) but it works.

You can always use Microsoft Virtual PC to play it in XP on your vista machine (assuming you have an XP licence to use). Virtual PC is a free download from microsoft. There are some perf problems (it takes awhile to load from disc), but it does work on my system.

Leave it to the gaming world to find a crazy fix to this. I had same problem and was installing a virtual pc, but found this fix.

After installing the patches (Which you can get from here: http://videogames.yahoo.com/pc/final-fantasy-viii/file-3206 0), you have to move the .exe file to a completely different directory. For example I moved mine from: F:\Program Files\Eidos Interactive\Square Soft, Inc\FINAL FANTASY VIII to F:\Games\FF8

Why it works i don't know.

Oh, and make sure that you move the .exe and not just make a shortcut. Also, you will have to change your shortcuts too.