Star Ocean: First Departure

[Prime14]

So I just decided to replay the entire series and therefore just booted up this game yesterday.
I haven't read through all 14 pages but could you tell me if there are any specific settings I should use or avoid for this game? (OpenGL or not?)
Seeing as there are some (minor) issues with it.

My PC is pretty powerful, haswell i5 and a ATI 290x, so that shouldn't be an issue.

OpenGL, buffered rendering, simulate block transfer. There's a minor problem with using buffered rendering tho, transitioning to a new area causes the sound to skip.

Resolution to 1x to remove black bounding boxes on animated backgrounds.