Bug ID: JDK-6279985 Text too small when Nvidia display driver D3D Antialiasing is on

Type: Bug
Component: client-libs
Sub-Component: 2d
Affected Version: 5.0u2

Priority: P2
Status: Closed
Resolution: Duplicate
OS: windows_xp
CPU: x86

Submitted: 2005-06-03
Updated: 2010-04-03
Resolved: 2005-06-15

Many consumers complain about font being too small within Yahoo Game applets. The problem often occurs with Nvidia video card. The workaround is to turn off the anti-alias feature for the driver and the applet will display font normally.

Recently, consumers have complained that after installation of JRE 5.0u2, the Java Control Panel appears to be a gray box. (bug 6267861) This happens with ATI video cards. After turning off the anti-alias feature, the Java Control Panel displays correctly.
###@###.### 2005-06-03 04:14:05 GMT

EVALUATION 1.5 and updates has known problems when users set the video driver option to force antialiasing of D3D surfaces. This affects Nvidia and ATI boards at least. This should only affect users who have set their display settings, using the video card vendor's controls, to override application settings for antialiasing. There is no way for an application to discover this is happening. The problems are usually much worse than small text - its empty (grey) windows for Swing apps. Its hard to understand how *only* text could be affected, since in 1.5.0_X we do not use D3D for text. So the basic problem here is that we create D3D offscreen images with settings from the screen. 1.6 has a fix for this problem as part of some new D3D work. ###@###.### 2005-06-14 23:28:37 GMT Closing as a duplicate of the bug ID under which this is fixed 6213204: Starting any java program causes the screen to become blurred ###@###.### 2005-06-15 00:27:14 GMT

14-06-2005

WORK AROUND Set a system property -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false or the environment variable J2D_D3D=false or better still don't override application AA settings in the display driver control panel. ###@###.### 2005-06-14 23:28:37 GMT

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