Dragon warrior vii freeze, please help!

Hi all I just set up my espxe 170. I'm trying to play dragon warrior vii and it works very well except at the end of battles it keeps freezing. It has gotten worse as I have progressed through the game. I am in orph and I'm no longer able to fight a battle without it freezing at the end. I am using Pete's DX6 D3D Driver 1.77 with the following settings:
Texture quality: R4 G4 B4 A4
Texture filtering: 0
Hi-Res textures: 0
Gfx card vram: 0
FPS limit 60
Off screen drawing: 1
Advanced blending: 0
Framework textures: 1
Framebuffer access: 0
I have checked:
Unfiltered framebuffer updates, and in the special game fixes
Lazy upload detection
Special upload detection

Any help figuring out what might work is greatly appreciated. Thank you all!!!!