OK, success finally! I had to add a bunch of other jar files to the class path. Side note: I find it amusing that substance-all.zip distribution doesn't seem to include substance.jar
Also, isn't there some kind of way to reference the jars you need from a single jar so you don't need to specify them all in the class path? I've also hacked the benchmark to check for null menu and skip it. Anyway, here are the results on my system (NVIDIA GF 7900GS, Pentium D 2.8Ghz, WinXP) - again the lower the better: d3d nod3d Nimbus 25838 36177 Substance 59956 59349 Windows L&F 20661 24170 Ocean 16123 21659 The fact that Substance's score doesn't change a whole lot no matter if the d3d pipeline is enabled or not suggests that the rendering may not be the bottleneck. One thing however I've noticed is that scrolling (text area, table, tree) with Substance seems to be much slower (and the benchmark does lots of that). Thanks, Dmitri =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".