how to speed up ff8 ?

[icrusandanki]

when i use Fire Cavern, the frame rate drop to 6 or 5
how can i solve this?
i am using Pete's D3D 1.49
CPU PIII 600
128 MB RAM
Creative Savage 4 32MB

[Bgnome]

its because of that wavy haze effect..
i think it hasta do with the vram primitives but im not really sure.
what are your settings?

[icrusandanki]

here is my config....
i found that if i use software plugin, it doesn't occur
but the graphic is poor........:(

[YAR]

Here are somethings you can try:

1:Try a different texture quality (I found that 4,4,4,4 is best for Savage card or a simple dont care would do)
2:Try filtering without sprites (extended looks best with ff8)
3: Frame skipping
4: Changing the frame limit
5: Try not to use special fixes unless required