[sithspawn]

hi, i'm having difficulty running ff7 (us) on epsxe 1.5.1 here. when i tried to start a new game, the screen goes blank and the cd-rom (or the hard drive when i use the iso) flickers for quite a while (a few minutes) and then stopped. that's it... nothing happens afterwards. fyi, my specs r:

athlon 1.2 ghz
256 mb ddr
geforce3 64mb
win xp pro

and my plugins settings r:

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.61
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce3

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 4
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000183]

btw, the one above differs from what i usually use (pete's ogl 1.61). i use eternal 1.2 spu and pete's cdr 1.10 (using raw ioctl).
i also tried using a downloaded memcard save, and the game works up til cloud first met barret, and then when it tried to switch to fmv showing shinra's corp building and barret running, it went dead just like when i tried to start a new game.
i read the previous epsxe postings on similar ff7 probs, and i tried (most of) them, but they didn't work 4 me (including the framebuffer and the waiting ones).
can anyone help me?

~sithspawn