Do you really have a PCI graphics card or are your AGP drivers not installed? You might also want to upgrade your graphics card drivers, not to the newest ones, but to something like the older 5x.xx drivers which better suit your card.
The FF battle swirls are tricky. If the game is running perfectly and your only problem is the battle swirls, then I'd say leave it alone. However, you might want to try this config.
For FF9, try this.
The FF battle swirls are tricky. If the game is running perfectly and your only problem is the battle swirls, then I'd say leave it alone. However, you might want to try this config.
For FF9, try this.