I sent the following content a while ago, and never received any information about this bug. Anyway, I found that turning off hardware acceleration in the Monitors control panel made it possible to run the 3d demos. It seems that javax in general has a lot of trouble with hardware acceleration. I hope Sun will address these issues quickly. George > I just installed java3d. When I try to run any demo in the appletviewer, > the applet comes up, starts, the applet's background goes black and it > crashes. No messages are printed in the dos window. > > I have verified that the correct appletviewer(jdk1.2.1) is running, and > my dxdiag shows 6.1 with all drivers certified. > -- George Rome Borden IV Member Technical Staff Sharp Labs of America 5750 NW Pacific Rim Blvd. Camas, WA 98607 Tel: 360-817-7568 Fax: 360-817-8436 Ext: 7568 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ,/ ,'/ ,' /____, [EMAIL PROTECTED] .'___ ,' / ,' /,' /' ===================================================================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java 3D Home Page: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/