FFVII Black Screen

Hey everyone,On the first disc of FFVII, right after I complete the first mission and go downstairs at Barret's hideout the screen goes black. The sound keeps going but the screen no longer shows anything. I am using the PSX emulator v1.13. Any help is appreciated.

Use ePSXe 1.5.2
Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Nice Default settings
Any special game fixes related to FF7 should be enabled.

With all needed files bios SCPH1001 , and memcards epsxe000.mcr and epsxe001.mcr , Some plugins with Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9, Just needs to configuratedePSXe 1.5.2 , with bios and memcardshttp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jynkcywx10m

I'm using ePSX3 1.5.2 now and after some tinkering managed to get it to run. However, when I go into a battle, it slows down significantly. I'm running it on a laptop and am sure my video card isn't the greatest but I didn't have this problem when I was running on the other emulator. Do you know of any settings for me to change that would help? I'm using my driver's default texture quality. Below are my video settings. Any help is appreciated.Plugin: Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.1.77
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset FamilyResolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]Textures:
- Default
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytesFramerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: AutoCompatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardwareMisc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00002801]

You could also try 1.7.0http://www.epsxe.com/But your problem is having an onbord graphis cardI also have an onbord for my pc that was cr*p, So I bought a nvivia geforce 8400 GS PCI and they was some big improvments, some of emus run almost at full speed
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This will have all the plugins you can fined maybe one will suite your cardhttp://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx/psxplugins-tools.html
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Turning your disc into MDF images with Alcohol 120%, will help with speed!, and music with games like tomb raider that helps fix some crashing issues

1.7.0 has issues with squaresoft games.As for graphics plugins, theres a few very easy rules to get the right ones:Always use Pete's pluginsIf you have a Nvidia graphics card/chip, use pete's opengl2
If you have an ATi graphics card/chip, use pete's directx
If you have anything else, use pete's dx6for all of them, use the 'nice' defaults, a frame limit of 35fps, resolution of 800x600 (PSX native) and enable the relevant 'special game fixes'Any problems after following these rules is most likely hardware related.