Preview window crashes if set to full screen

lazydayz · Post by **lazydayz** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:16 pm

I have dual monitors & when I set the preview window to full screen &/or drag to make it bigger on my second monitor, it gives me the run time error.
It doesn't do it when the preview window is set at default.
Why would this be doing this & how could I get around it.
(Running an Intel P4).
Thanks in advance for all of your help.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:18 pm

More system spec's please

lazydayz · Post by **lazydayz** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:22 am

I understand software, however not real versed on hardware. Hope this helps........
P4 3.20GHz
Internal 380+
External 900+
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Having used MSP7 for a long time, I have not experienced the run error before now.
I just need to find out how to correct this when I drag my preview screen to my second monitor, run for a short time (1 min.) in full screne mode and then I get the run error. For some reason the program does not like for me to make it full screen.
Again, thanks for all of your help.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:43 am

I think your ATI card is straining your system a bit. Does it run at half size for the full preview?

I use a Matrox Parhelia and have no issues what so ever. The Matrox cards are using very little system resources. I seem to remember, from some posts on this and other forums, that the ATI cards are resource hogs but cannot say from my own experience.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:47 am

Come to think of it, did you have it run full screen in the past? Same setup, or did you change something? ie. software, hardware, update patches etc.

How much ram do you have? Where do your tempfiles reside, free space on that drive?

lazydayz · Post by **lazydayz** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:41 pm

Actually it ended up being a setting (as usual).
When full screen is selected you need to also go to the same box & then check "refresh".
Full screen doesn't quite mean full screen on my monitor, so I will try dragging & refreshing to see if that will work as well.