FF8 Grey screen when running videos

[wizardii]

Help! I have been having a probelm for a while with FF8. It starts early in the game, Places that have tansitions from place to place.. It looks like FMV in the background and you characters are drawn on top. Don't work, I just get a black or grey field where the video should be. I posted an example. I have been reading these boards for a while and have not seen anyone else with my problem. I was hoping that it would be fixed in a plugin up date or something like that but Seeing how other people are placing the game on this board I don't think It is a bug.
My computer is a athalon 750 with 512mb ram and a geforce 4 card. I have replaced the card, to see if that would solve it. I have used just about every openGL, and software plugin looking for the solution. I'm totally stumped. I have now used epsxe to play through all of my old square games, ff7, ff9, chrono chross, fft. But ff8 just wont work right. Any Ideas?

The picture is in the city where you meet Laguna finally, and there are lots of pretty eleveator scenes. This is one of them.

[Yeloazndevil]

what are your plug-ins and plug-in settings?

[TalkingANUS]

Try using these settings:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.64
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 MX 440/AGP/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 3 - edge clamping supported
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 64 MBytes - 196 textures usable

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 70

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2 - not used yet
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on (hardware)
- Subtractive blending: NOT supported!

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: on [00000400]

I used these setting to get through the whole game with no glitches

[Kane]

Yuo used a save state or two didn't you?
FF* doesn't like save states

[wizardii]

Originally posted by Lord Kane
Yuo used a save state or two didn't you?
FF* doesn't like save states

This was it! I saved it to a memory card file and reloaded it game and now everything looks great! Thank you. Odd Neveer had this problem with anyother Square games. But Hey it works now! Gonna finish this game!