Suggestion for Settings [Vagrant Story]

Use Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.78.
Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9 requires more power and with Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.78 you'll get if not the same you'll get almost the same graphic results:

Plugin: P.E.Op.S. OpenGL Driver 1.1.78

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Window mode
- V-Sync: off
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- R5G5B5A1
- iFiltering: 1
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 2
- Framebuffer texture: 0
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- 15 bit FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: on
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Most likely you'll have to tweak Texture Filtering,Advanced Blending and Alpha Multipass till you make it the way you like it the most.

BTW Screen smoothing maybe bad for you because requires a lot of VRAM but it makes the game to look better

I have a problem with title screen flickering (whole screen flickers). Also, last frame from the opening movie from the moment I skip it shows up in the background of the title and the selection menu appears in a black rectangle. Music from the opening movie goes on until it's over then the game plays its normal title screen track. Once you choose to play the game it's fine. This only appears in fullscreen mode, in window mode there's no flickering and no rectangle. However, the music issue won't go away.

Apart from that, off-screen drawing seems to have some problems with missing frames. The only one I've noticed so far is the "Now Loading" screen. It can be fixed by setting off-screen drawing to 4: Extended, but I don't know if it involves additional garbage/slowdowns. 2: Standard should be enough as most people post, but will it mean possible missing frames later on? Or is the "Now Loading" the only missing one with 2: Standard? Does anybody have any experience with this particular problem?

I use ePSXe 1.7.0, tried PCSX reloaded to no avail.
Internal Sound
Internal CD (subchannel on)

Plugin: P.E.Op.S. OpenGL Driver 1.1.78
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce2 Ti AGP/SSE/3DNOW! 64 MB (FSAA off, Anisotropic Filtering off, Image Setting: Quality, Vsync off, Negative LOD: allow)
OGL version: 1.5.3

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing (Refresh at 120hz)
- V-Sync: off
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- iFiltering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 64 MBytes

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

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4 (for "Now Loading", normally I'd use 2)
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 3 (tried 2 and 0 too)
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: off
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]



EDIT: The flickering and/or black rectangle issue can be solved with Pete's OpenGL 2.9. I guess the older OpenGL version is just buggy/glitchy in some cases and there's no ready solution for it.