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Asked: 2026-06-02T17:04:20+00:00

We are having some weird problems using Java3D over a Windows’ remote desktop. The

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We are having some weird problems using Java3D over a Windows’ remote desktop. The remote machine is a virtualized server, which can’t use the (physical) server’s graphic card. When I run the app, the following error pops:

Unable to create DirectX D3D context.
Neither Hardware and Software Renderer are available.
Please update your video card drivers
and get the latest DirectX available at http://microsoft.com/directx

After switching to OpenGL (starting the JVM with -Dj3d.rend=ogl) the same error appears! What is possibly happening? How can I fallback to software rendering, either with OpenGL or DirectX, when the error appears?

EDIT: I’ve already tried using another OpenGL vendor, using Mesa3D’s DLLs instead of the native ones, but it did nothing different. I also installed DirectX SDK and tried to start Java3D with the reference driver (-Dj3d.d3ddevice=reference), but it didn’t work either.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The same error appears because if OpenGL fails, Java3D tries to use DirectX. If that fails, too, then the pop is shown.

    I didn’t manage to solve it because, instead of trying to change things at the remote server, I tried to emulate the problem at my own machine by disabling the video driver. I still don’t know why both problems aren’t equivalent, but after I returned to work on the server and put DirectX’s d3dref9.dll at Java’s \bin, it worked.

    Now I have an entire new problem, as the JVM can’t find the DLL if I place it at java.library.path or Tomcat’s \bin 🙂 Problems just can’t not exist.

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