[idvusers] IDV Screen Initializes Then Fails

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• Subject: [idvusers] IDV Screen Initializes Then Fails
• From: wxgeek@xxxxxxxxxxx
• Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:23:27 +0000 (UTC)

I am attempting to run IDV on a Win8 box that has a quad core AMD processor 
with 
8GB memory and an ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 display. Screen initializes and then 
immediately disappears. 

Here is the the output from the command screen. 
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C:\Program Files (x86)\IDV_5.0u1>runIDV.bat 

C:\Program Files (x86)\IDV_5.0u1>jre\bin\java -Xmx1229m -XX:PermSize=128m 
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:+Disable 
ereo=false -jar idv.jar 
Nov 06, 2014 9:50:09 AM ucar.nc2.util.DiskCache2 setRootDirectory 
INFO: DiskCache2 create directory 
C:/Users/wxgee_000/.unidata/idv/DefaultIdv/tmp/nj22/ 
3D [dev] 1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily 

javax.media.j3d.IllegalRenderingStateException: Java 3D ERROR : OpenGL 1.2 or 
better is required (GL_VERSIO 
at javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline.setupCanvasProperties(JoglPipeline.java:8082) 
at javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline.access$800(JoglPipeline.java:87) 
at javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline$ContextQuerier.init(JoglPipeline.java:8655) 
at javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline$QueryCanvas.doQuery(JoglPipeline.java:8620) 
at javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline$QueryCanvas.access$100(JoglPipeline.java:8568) 
at javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline.createQueryContext(JoglPipeline.java:6550) 
at javax.media.j3d.Canvas3D.createQueryContext(Canvas3D.java:4618) 
at javax.media.j3d.Canvas3D.createQueryContext(Canvas3D.java:3611) 
at javax.media.j3d.Renderer.doWork(Renderer.java:461) 
at javax.media.j3d.J3dThread.run(J3dThread.java:271) 
This version of Java3D can't query "textureWidthMax/textureHeightMax" 
so they are being assigned the default values: 
textureWidthMax: 1024 
textureHeightMax: 1024 
DefaultRenderingErrorListener.errorOccurred: 
If images render as a 'grey-box', try setting these parameters 
to a lower value, eg. 512, with '-DtextureWidthMax=512' 
Otherwise check your graphics environment specifications 

CONTEXT_CREATION_ERROR: Renderer: Error creating Canvas3D graphics context for 
queryProperties() 
graphicsDevice = D3DGraphicsDevice[screen=0] 

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Any help is appreciated!. 

Jim 

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