> That may be true, however, if you go and try to > download > a driver for WS2008 from the manufacturer's > webiste > you may find that it is not available, or the > version > available may be year(s) old.
> The problem is not with the OS, it's with the > drivers. > The drivers available for the server class OSes are > typically > older, and buggier. Given the same driver version > it most > likely work just fine on Win2k8, however, the > chances of > encountering a new driver on these systems is much > lower. > I have seen numerous issues with older drivers on > Win2k3, 2k8. To my knowledge, this was true for all WS versions before 2008 but isn't anymore. You still won't find WS2008 drivers on your manufacturer's website, but know it is because you don't need any - the Vista drivers will work fine. I did some more testing today and here's what I found out: Up to then, I was using jre_1.6.0_10. I tried to run my test program with an older JRE version and surprisingly, the WS2008 block didn't exist in jre1.6.0_06 yet. However, Vista seems to be blocked there and the JRE thinks I'm running Vista: [code][W] GetFlagValues: DDraw/D3D is disabled on Windows Vista[/code] So still no hardware acceleration. I started playing around with the JRE binary and tried to set Windows' compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2 for those two files: C:\Windows\system32\java.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_06\bin\javaw.exe And magically, it worked: [code][I] InitDirectX [V] CheckRegistry: Found Display Device 0: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 [I] DDSetupDevice [V] D3DContext::CreateAndTestD3DDevice: D3D device creation/initialization successful [I] CreateD3DDevice: tests PASSED, d3d enabled (forced: no). [I] DDSetupDevice[/code] I reinstalled jre_1.6.0_10, applied the same change but that broke it again. > Which is why the pipeline is disabled on the > server class > OS-es by default. I'm perfectly fine with it being disabled by default. However, I just don't see why there is no way to enable it manually, seeing that it worked perfectly well for an old JRE version. -- smf68 [Message sent by forum member 'smf68' (smf68)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=283434 =========================================================================== 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".
