No Hardware Acceleration? Help

[Holy_Diver]

Are you sure directx is turned on? Ie. dxdiag?

Btw, it's not unusual for the system options menu to lock up. I'm not sure why it gets like this. Probably because it doesn't like something in the ini file against your system. You can modify the ini file yourself. Device 1 is most common I think.

Something like:

[config]
device=1
width=800
height=600
bpp=16
filtering=2
gamma=16
seVol=63
bgmVol=63
bob=1
showGage=1
showCommpass=1
showItem=1
padDev=0
padCfg0=5
padCfg1=3
padCfg2=1
padCfg3=4
padCfg4=6
padCfg5=7
padCfg6=2
padCfg7=5

Is probably safe. There are a few bugs if you're trying to play with a controller. If everything works you're lucky, but don't be surprised if you have to correct the controller config a little every time you play the game. There are supposedly fixes for some form of the controller bugs, but I'm pretty sure the kind that always gets me (SmartJoy PLUS DualShock adapter) is something not yet addressed.

Edited: Another thing to try is changing the compatibility mode of the executable by opening it's property dialog.