Slowdowns in Ape Escape

Trying to play Ape Escape on epsxe 1.6, and as usually when trying to play any game on this emulator, gotta fix the problems before i can play it =/ - Normally the game runs fine but it has moments where it slows down a lot, like in the opening cut scene it really slowed down when looking at the time machine thingy. It also slows down a lot when the main guy spawns or dies.

Here's my video stuff:
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON X800 XL x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 1
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 62

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: off
- Screen filtering: off
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00001000]

Any recommendations?

By the by, anyone know if there's a way to change the camera angles in this game? They can't really be that bad can they? I hope they're not always like that, i just want to be able to see where i'm going