JavaFx system requirements: Intel GMA 4500MHD: driver update problem

[Yennick Trevels]

Thanks, that worked!


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Kevin Rushforth
<kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>wrote:

> You can bypass the driver version check with a system property:
>
> java -Dprism.forceGPU=true ...
>
> Note that there are (or were) known bugs with this driver version that you
> may run into.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
>
> Yennick Trevels wrote:
>
>> Anyone has any thoughts on this? Is there a compatibility mode that I can
>> turn on?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Yennick Trevels
>> <yennick.trevels at gmail.com>**wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having a problem getting JavaFx to work on my laptop because of the
>>> currently installed display driver.
>>> I'm always getting the following error when I try to run my JavaFx
>>> application:
>>>
>>>     Device "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family"
>>> (\\.\DISPLAY1) initialization failed :
>>>     WARNING: bad driver version detected, device disabled. Please update
>>> your driver to at least version 8.15.10.2302
>>>
>>> Now, this message is very clear on what I need to do, but I can't update
>>> my drivers to that version even though my graphics card should be
>>> supported
>>> according to the official system requirements of JavaFx (
>>> http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/**2/system_requirements_2-2-4/**
>>> jfxpub-system_requirements_2-**2-4.htm<http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/system_requirements_2-2-4/jfxpub-system_requirements_2-2-4.htm>
>>> ).
>>>
>>> My laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-BZ13XN with a Mobile Intel® Graphics Media
>>> Accelerator 4500MHD graphics card (which is in the supported list). I
>>> updated my drivers with the VAIO Update program, but it's only upgrading
>>> to
>>> driver version 8.15.10.1855.
>>> I tried downloading the updated driver directly from the Intel site, but
>>> it refuses to execute the installation because it detects that I'm on a
>>> Sony device.
>>>
>>> Is there a solution for this? If not, then maybe the system requirements
>>> page should indicate the driver version instead of the graphics card
>>> model.
>>> Also, my laptop isn't new, but not really old (5+years) either, it's only
>>> about 3 years old. So this could become a problem to deploy JavaFx
>>> applications in an enterprise environment where pc's/laptops aren't
>>> upgraded every few years.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yennick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>