Help with Chrono Cross/epsxe please!

[BMSmudge]

I got it running pretty well for the most part, but one thing that is bugging me is the text windows background (where it shows the picture of who is talking) is all black and dark so you can't really see it. Anyone know what settings might be causing this? Also I get weird slowdown with the music in the menu screen and when battles load but this a secondary concern. The only area I have had a big graphics problem was Termina Port so far- the background was all black and I could only see the sprites/characters NPCs on the map.

I am playing on a HP Pavillion dv7-6187cl labtop with a radeon 6770m video card. I updated my drivers for the video card recently as well. Using Pete's Open GL 2.9 and Eternal SPU 1.5 plugins. These are the configurations I have setup (taken from a youtube video with the same plugins):
Resolution & Colors
- Fullscreen mode 1920x1080 32 Bit
- Internal X res: 2
- Internal Y res: 3
- Stretching mode: 0
- Render mode: 0

Textures
- Texture filtering: 2
- Hi-Res textures: 2
- Gfx card vram: 0 (Autodetect)

Framerate
- "Use FPS limit" checked
- "Auto-detect FPS/Frame skipping limit" checked

Compatibility
- Off-Screen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer upload: 2

Full screen filters
- "Screen filtering" checked
- Shader effects ➜ Fullscreen Smoothing ➜ 2

Misc
- "MDEC filter" checked

If anyone has advice I would appreciate it!

[Shendo]

You should manually set VRAM size, lower internal X/Y resolution, turn off filtering and set compatibility to 1/2/2.
If it works then turn each option one by one to find the culprit.