Recommendations on how to configure ePSXe 1.7.0

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Hey Friends,

I could use some help on how to correctly configure my ePSXe v1.7.0. I am a newbie at this and I am excited to play old psone games. Can you guys help to recommend how to configure my emulator? I hate the slow downs, choppy in and out sound and video I am experiencing. I can't figure out how to fix it so it will run smoothly without interruption or the voices sounding like chipmunks. Currently I'm using plugins: psx emulation cheater 2.5, Pete's Open GL2 Driver 2.9, and Pete's DSound Audio Driver 1.15.

Here are my specs for my computer:
XP sp3
Intel P4 3.06
Asus P4S533 motherboard
2560 MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (256 MB)
C-Media CMI8738 Audio Chip

Please help. Any help would be appreciate. Thank you in advance for any reply.

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I still get choppy video and slow downs and the audio occasionally sounds like a fast forwarded chipmunk. The games I'm currently playing with these problems are Final Fantasy 7 and Star Trek Invasion. These are my current settings for my video:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce 6600/AGP/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1024x768 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

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

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00004002]

for the Sound plugin I'm using Pete's DSound Audio Driver 1.15 default options.

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My usual picks for ePSXe.

GPU : Any Pete's GPU plugin (but note that you should click on "NICE" setting before you start playing)
SPU : Eternal SPU plugin