From what I see here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=39600 it seems to be to downgrade Java to 1.4.2 if those symptoms described happen. AFAIK the video card issues are not affecting the LW beta. Not the ati ones anyway. The beta also starts up faster, & closes faster.

What about people who had just as much slowdown/etc. with Java 1.4.2, before Java 1.5 came out? Unreg-whatever has been posting here for donkey's years complaining intermittently of slowdowns and the like. Since version 3 something!
Is that the nvidia thing? If it is, going back to 1.4.2 won't do any good if it was just as bad before 1.5 ever came out...

try upgrading to LW version 4.9.3 Beta and see if that helps

Ok I've downgraded to JRE 1.4.2 and now LimeWire works as it should without slowdowns!! thanks!!

yeah i have the same problem with the beta as well, and it is NOT the video card, i have an nvidia geforce 6600gt, and trust me its WELL overclocked, almost all the way both core and mem, so there would be no problems with GUI, everything else works beautifully yet when i open limewire and ONLY limewire, lag galore, this has to be a LW problem.

system:

AMD64 3700 @ 2.5ghz
1gb mushkin
dfi lan party nf4 ultra-D motherboard
6600gt

there is absolutely NO reason that LW should be this CPU/mem intensive, that is just beyond me, perhaps there is an error in the coding, but i havent had this problem until recently, to tell you the truth, this is a new system, and when i installed limewire i even let it install the java for me, so that just shows its a programming problem, so if you have any suggestions, tell me.

also, would there be a chance of a 64bit version of LW?

I do not understand why you say it has to be a LW problem I run LW all of the time can play Half Life2 while LW is running I have no problem surfing the net running Office aplications, or running Adobe CS2 & Adobe photoshop3 editing photos while LW is running when I am surfing the net or playing Half Life on stream I set LW to UL 30Kb/s I really do not know what I am downloading at when gaming but I usually DL at 50 to 300Kb/s I have no trouble on my machines whitch are not that much diffrent from yours. There are times I leave LW running for days I do occasionly notice that LW is using allot of MEM 65,000K+ when running in Ultrapper Leaf usually 40,000K or less CPU usage 2% with spikes at 17% I have never seen it go above that my current machine is set up as follows

AMD 64 3200+ set at 240X10 = 2.4GHz
1 GB Corsair 3200 Value Ram 1.7v
EVGA e-GeForce 6200 core Clock 400MHz Mem Clock 635MHz
2-Fujitsu 74GB 15K Ultra 320 SCSI 0-Raid
Adaptec 29320 Ultra 320 SCSI card
120 GB WD Hard Drive
ASUS A8V Ultra Motherboard

As you can see your machine should be out preforming mine and I am having no problem with LW causing any type of lag. I did have a problem before on my other machine wit a blank screen when LW opened it has a MSI FX 5200 nvidia if I changed from 32bit to 16bit the problem would go away and and I havent seen that problem since version 4.2 I believe that LW is a mem intsive program but it is not a cripleing program in any way. There may be a problem in the way LW is set up or a driver or any number of things allot of people tend to blame LW for problems but believe me if LW is propperley set up there is no better P2P software out there go back and read some of the tips in the forum and try them it took me a while to get LW to run the way it does now and it sems that diffrent things work for diffrent people but it will be worth it if you get it set up propperley for your machine.

Latter Grandpa

http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/1868/lw15cr.png
http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/3654/lw28le.png
http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/7690/lw31ws.png
http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/3470/lw44vw.png

now, i DO agree with you on the mem useage, but the rest of this makes no sense to me considering i use azureus which also runs off java, but i have absolutely no problems with it, thats why i believe that this has to be a LW problem, somewhere in the coding something was set wrong.

those images show exactly what is going on, so if you dont think its a LW problem, then what do you suggest i do? because i know my hardware and most everyone elses pretty well considering thats what im going to college for, which is why i would find it hard to believe this has anything to do with hardware.

so do you think i oughta revert back to an older version of java? if so wouldnt that be bad for azureus?

No it does not appear to be a hardware problem I did notice on the image where you show processes that LW is using 14% and task manager is using 14% but your total cpu usage is 93% do you know what other processes are eating up the cpu. I tried to duplicate by making diffrent processes start up the only way I could get the high cpu usage was to preforme several searches at once IE start/search while doing this explorer.exe got stuck in a loop after it had completed search and hoged cpu 93% I doubble clicked on explore.exe in the task manager window after about 5 min. and it droped back to normal. I see that explorexe.exe is at 0% on the immage you provided so there is another process running that may have a conflict with LW could you give a snspshot of task manager processes showing tasks running in order of cpu usage it might help the devolopers of LW figure the problem out.

Latter Grandpa

http://img303.imageshack.us/img303/9149/task9sc.png

there ya go :), the only thing is, is that im using every single program i used with limewire running even on my last machine which was an XP 2700, and everything is pretty muchly the same, thats the only reason i think it could be a LW problem, heh i suppose it helps with people actually posting images of what is actually going on with their systems, thats why i did it :).

i think that there is possibly some java error and thats just my opinoin, i think they should go back and skim the coding thoroughly and just make sure there is nothing wrong with it, because when making a program, thats what youre supposed to do ;). im not downing the LW team, everything has been smooth sailing up until now, and i think everyone feels the same way. i believe that it really is a coding issue, and its not like they should feel bad, everyone makes mistakes lol, coding is hard business :P, thats why i dont do it haha.

but hopefully all these images help!

Question, Not Complaint
 

It seems that when LimeWire first starts, it takes about 15 minutes before it fully connects to the Gnutella network. I'm the local network guru and my users are asking about it... I don't really have anything insightful to tell them. Could someone enlighten me? This isn't normal for most IP based servers or services. You can't get too technical in your reply.