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