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Juan, Please update your Windows graphics card driver. Best, Unidata IDV Support > Hi Tom, i am Juan José Amides Figueroa, i am "the problem and asking guy" > from the Costa Rica McIDAS V Workshop few weeks ago, i am trying to install > IDV and McIDAS in my brand new Windows 7 64bits instalation and both > programs crashes at start up, for IDV i get the cmd info: > > > *C:\Program Files\IDV_5.0u2>runIDV* > > *C:\Program Files\IDV_5.0u2>jre\bin\java -Xmx2956m -XX:PermSize=128m > -XX:MaxPermS* > *ize=128m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Didv.enableStereo=false -jar idv.jar* > *May 24, 2015 11:50:21 PM ucar.nc2.util.DiskCache2 setRootDirectory* > *INFO: DiskCache2 create directory > C:/Users/Figue_CPM/.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 be* > *tter is required (GL_VERSION=1.1)* > * 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:86* > *55)* > * at > javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline$QueryCanvas.doQuery(JoglPipeline.java:86* > *20)* > * at > javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline$QueryCanvas.access$100(JoglPipeline.java* > *:8568)* > * at > javax.media.j3d.JoglPipeline.createQueryContext(JoglPipeline.java:655* > *0)* > * 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)* > > *DefaultRenderingErrorListener.errorOccurred:* > *CONTEXT_CREATION_ERROR: Renderer: Error creating Canvas3D graphics context > for q* > *ueryProperties()* > *graphicsDevice = D3DGraphicsDevice[screen=0]* > *canvas = javax.media.j3d.Canvas3D[canvas0,0,0,0x0,invalid]* > *This version of Java3D can't query "textureWidthMax/textureHeightMax"* > *so they are being assigned the default values:* > *textureWidthMax: 1024* > *textureHeightMax: 1024* > *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* > *C:\Program Files\IDV_5.0u2>* > *C:\Program Files\IDV_5.0u2>* > > I dont know where in unidata web page is the "IDV Mailing list" because > that i am asking to you first, can you help? > > Thanks! > > -- > *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* > > * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - **Juan José Amides > Figueroa Urbano* > > *Técnico Meteorólogo* > *Servicio Meteorológico Nacional* > > > *Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de El Salvador.* > *jn 3:16* > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NQA-901970 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed