LWJGL and Microsoft's GDI Generic Renderer?

OpenGL Development
#1

Get guys, got a question for you, one that is confusing the hell out of me. Hopefully someone can help me.

I have a Dell PC over here that doesn’t have a decent graphics chipset (Some obscure ATi integrated thing) and ends up using the GDI Generic as the renderer for anything OpenGL. So here’s my question: Why can I not run anything LWJGL using this renderer? Here are some specs from GLView:

GLView can also show render demos, but LWJGL just utterly refuses to cooperate. Any help or insight into this problem would be excellent. :wink:

#2

LWJGL doesn’t allow software modes by default, you need to turn this on via a system property. Try with -Dorg.lwjgl.opengl.Display.allowSoftwareOpenGL=true on the command line.

#3

Thanks for the reply. I’ll try this from the command line, however I already call setProperty on this lwjgl property inside my initalization code. Can I not do this?

if( QConfiguration.getBoolean("allowsoftware", false) )
{
	System.setProperty("org.lwjgl.opengl.Window.allowSoftwareOpenGL", "True");
}
else
{
	System.setProperty("org.lwjgl.opengl.Window.allowSoftwareOpenGL", "False");
}