ePSXe configuration help

[bknight2602]

I dusted off the old CD's and decided to install ePSXe on my game lap top. After the initail installation the starting sequence occurred but had a lot of hesitations. So I started messing with the settings and now all I get is the controller icon in the upper right hand corner of a black background, and nothing else.
I'm using Win 7 with a GeForce 9400 256 Mb.

I'm using the following currently:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 9400/PCI/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1440x900 Fullscreen - Use Window size in Fullscreen mode
- NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 2
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on
- No render-to-texture: æ
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- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 256 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: off
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 1
- GF4/XP crash fix: on
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.18
Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]
Stretch mode: 0
Dither mode: 0

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: disabled
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Eternal SPU for sound
Pete's CDR ASPI/IOCTL Dr. 1.1

I have changed so much and nothing starts the game. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[John Smith]

These are the settings I use for FF8, I think they're the same I used for FF7.

Best graphics:

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.77
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: VIA Chrome9 HC IGP Family WDDM

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x600 Window mode

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: none

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

Sound:
- ePSXe SPU core 1.7.0

CD Rom:
- ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.7.0



Best performance:

Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.17
Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team

Resolution/Color:
- 800x480 Window mode
Stretch mode: 0
Dither mode: 2

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: disabled
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Sound:
- ePSXe SPU core 1.7.0

CD Rom:
- ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.7.0