I'm not sure if it's a up or dnload problem but I just got Limewire last week and have had to reboot my pc multiple times do to a screen rez problem.

For some reason if I try to open other programs, or try to preview music while running Limewire my desktop screen rez jumps from 1024x768 to around 200x400. Everything is enlarged to the point I can't control anything and have to re-boot.

Anyone else had this problem?

BTW: I'm on Satellite

Could you post make and model of graphics card and also how much RAM you have installed on your computer.

This really sounds like your computer is trying to compensate due to lack of resources.

Also look at your taskmanager while Limewire is running. On Windows it's Ctrl+Alt+Del to open it. See if the processes called Limewire.exe or javaw.exe are using up much of the CPU

P-4 3.6 GHz
Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT
1 gig of Ram

I built this system a little over a year ago for gaming and photoshop and have never had a resource problem. Task Manager show between 2 and 5% usage with limewire running.

Well not resource related then

This thread has some fixes for graphics card issues. Don't think your exact symptoms are there but some of the fixes might apply

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=39600

In post two there are fixes for GeForce

thanks, I'll look into it

Hi,this is my first post on this site.

i am also having this problem on my pc.
i have limewire set to start up automatically on boot up, my desktop view switches itself to 8 bit colour and 640X640 resolution,its no where near as bad as your res, my pc is a dell 2.8mhz hd running aol9 on a 6mb connection.i enquired at pc world,and they said the drivers on the graphics card need updating,so i d/loaded the driver from the dell site,but it has not worked,i am really at a loss to know what to do next.
i have just upgraded my version of LM to 4.12.6 ,could there be a bug in this version,because no probs ever with the previous version,perhaps we should reinstall the old version and see if that cures it,having said that the old version is not present anywhere i have looked
regards
malcolm

After reading through the threads that Sleepless posted above I dnloaded the Nvidia's latest driver and it has cured my problem.

For what it's worth, I don't run Limewire on startup and you should probably go to your vid cards website to get their latest drivers.

Something else......are you sure the new driver you dnloaded installed itself?

thanks for your response to my post.

i have checked the download for the intel r graphics driver,and i do have the current driver (6.14.10.4543 ) installed.

i have changed the settings so LM will not start automatically.

so now my desktop do not degrade on start up.but it still reverts when i open limewire,so there is something else causing this inside limewire itself.none of the other progs on my pc are causing this reaction on start up.


malcolm

Have you tried reinstalling Limewire after updati_ng your driver. It might help. Download the offline installer from www.limewire.com

Delete your preference folder before reinstalling

Instructions on how to do this in this thread. BTW step 5 in this thread may be an option as well

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420