I just reverted to earlier drivers for the Matrox card, and all is OK now.
The J3D.org FAQ doesn't mention any issues with Matrox cards, but maybe the comments about nVidia TNT apply: "As newer drivers are released, new buggy implementations of the extensions are used, causing the problems to appear when you update drivers." Although the crashes occured when not doing anything arduous, such as selecting a JInternalFrame containing my Canvas3D. Rob. Rob Crompton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm developing a CAD-type application with multiple views of a model > contained in a frame. So that each view may contain a different > represention of the model (wireframe, solid, etc.) each view has a > separate Universe, Locale etc, with its own scenegraph (no nodes shared > between different universes). > > It seemed to work OK but has now become unstable, and there seems to be > no way of debugging, I just get crashes outside the VM such as: > > # An EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception has been detected in native > code outside the VM. > > with no stack trace or anything to indicate what the problem is. > > Is what I am doing ( multiple J3D in the same app ) inherently bad? Any > ideas on how to get more crash information? > I'm using Windows NT4 with J3D 1.2.1_03 for OpenGL. > > I have a vague notion the crashes started around when I installed new > drivers for my Matrox G450 Dual Head video card, but I'm not sure of > this. > > Thanks, > > Rob > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
