Star Ocean: Second Evolution

[Highborne]

Hello, downloaded the 0.9.8 PPSSPP, and got Star Ocean 2.

Been playing fine, but randomly after getting the flying bird thing when I enter any town or cave or anything, the background is black. I can see text/character portraits (if I PA at a town), I can enter battles just fine, I can also open the menu (in a town/cave) and it works fine, but the background is just gone.

It happened first at Fun City, I restarted the emulator, and it randomly went away. After a little while more, it came back and I cannot seem to get it to go away (restarting emulator, loading saved games, loading saved states, etc.).

Here is a screenshot of what I am experiencing.
http://imageshack.com/a/img819/4149/qkz6c.jpg

Oh, interesting, I just tried starting a new game and it is broken too, cannot even begin the game practically as the background is black. Very strange.

Any ideas how to fix this problem?

Oh, Windows 8 x64, nvidia GTXX 660M, i7-3630QM if that helps any.