Turned out to be indeed, a DirectX prob, with the 8bit texture stuff.
RivaTuner and turning off the 8-bit stuff helped.
Couldn't imagine it was that though, thought that it ran well cuz the Eidos logo did show. Guess that didn't mean anything..
Thanks anyway, and sorry for being yet another irritating noob, opening a topic that has been covered for like 1000 times
Sorry, my bad, and thanks for this GRRRREAT forum, gotta love FF7