Thx for the new update
I guess i give up on FF IX in gpu mode and just play it in software with filter. There was a version a while ago that was good. Then there was a change to texture filter because of the black borders and now the texture filter pretty much doesnt work anymore with FF IX. I can only chose if polygons get rendered, but the backgrounds stay unfiltered.
Plus i have hard fps issues in some scenes like the world map (down to 33fps). So yeah other games like THPS2 run perfect and look great btw.