This would be my suggestion as well. Please make sure your video card
driver is up-to-date.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Tyle, Kevin R <ktyle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Just in case you haven't tried already ... have you checked for and
> installed the latest driver package for your video card?
>
> I know that in the past there have been issues with AMD/Radeon GPU's
> falsely reporting that they don't support OpenGL >= 1.2 ...
>
> --Kevin
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of wxgeek@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 11:23 AM
> To: idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [idvusers] IDV Screen Initializes Then Fails
>
> 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.
>
> ********************************************************************************************************************************************
>
> 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]
>
>
> ***************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
> Any help is appreciated!.
>
> Jim
>
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