Win2K works fine with the OpenGl version of J3D. HOWEVER, YOU DID NOT
MENTION THE VIDEO ACCELERATOR CARD in your machine and that will
have a major impact on J3D performance. Assuming that you got the Diamond
Fire GL2 that should work o.k. although I have no first hand experience with
that particular card. If your Dell box has an AGP slot (some do/some don't) then
you can put in another card (such as an NVidia GeForce 2) to improve performance
if needed, although the Fire GL2 card looks good on paper. Also, you may want
to consider having at least 512 MBytes of main memory, depending on your
application.
Jim Schatzman
At 04:27 PM 1/26/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I now have "in transit" one Dell computer. Having worked with Java3D on an R&D
>project for about 8 months and OpenGL since before it was Open, I decided to buy
>a really "hot" machine for use at home. I bought the 1.4GHz machine, added 128
>MB of memory and upgraded to the 64MB graphics engine. Good so far. Then I
>decided on the Windows 2000 upgrade. Was that a mistake? I've been reading my
>900 page book on Windows 2000 and things don't necessarily look so good. Will
>Bill G. force me to use the DirectX version of the J3D API? I love the Java
>programming model and J3D, but I still need OpenGL for work and really complex
>graphics. I want both until J3D gets better documented and more robust.
>
>Anyway, can anyone let me know if there are any Java/J3D/OpenGL showstoppers
>with what I have purchased. (Now he asks!)
>
>Thanks,
>Norm
>
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