Star Ocean: Second Evolution

[Timmicus Maximus]

So it looks like I am having the same problem as The Randomizer was having in earlier pages where only dialogue boxes were appearing, though my game never crashes. I have it on non-buffered rendering and hardware transform on as someone advised, but no help. The FMV are perfect, battles are perfect, menu screens like character menu and start screen are perfect, but in the game all I can see are text boxes and the cartoon of Claude when he is the one talking. I have tried multiple versions and builds of ppsspp; 9.6, 9.5 and even 9.1. These emulators either stop working shortly after loading a game (sometimes by changing settings I can get them to work) or they all have failed to show these graphics - even the newest ones. I've tried other emulators, and one showed the missing graphics but was so bugged it was literally unplayable, and the rest just failed period. I have tried almost every option to change video settings on ppsspp and nothing seems to work, I've updated drivers, scanned my disk and repaired any errors, and have no clue what else I can do. It seems like my old laptop wants to render the graphics in a certain way, and the ppsspp emulator doesn't have the option for changing a setting to solve this problem.

Any suggestions? Either on how to tool ppsspp's video settings, or maybe modify my laptops video settings to work more properly? I've got Windows Vista 32-bit, and if its relevant my video card is (i think) ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. I'm not that adept with computers so maybe I am missing something obvious.... any help would be greatly appreciated. Star Ocean First Departure works fine btw. Also, reading through I see some have had better luck with the older builds - where can I find those?