Azureus question

[Kurt]

I admit I haven't done my homework, ie I didn't search Google or read any FAQ's or check the Azureus forum, so please bear with me.

A while ago I discovered that whenever Azureus was running I'd get video corruption and problems with accelerated apps. For example, I'd open a vid file and the player window stays black, MAME runs horribly slow with a flickering display etc. Ctrl+Alt+Esc'ing usually fixes this though.

Could this ibe linked to Sun's Java runtime for some reason? I noticed the screen flickers after for a tiny moment after starting Azureus.

Meanwhile I've made the switch to microtorrent and I really like it but I'm still curious what could have caused this. Anyone else experienced this? Maybe with other Java based apps too?

 

[Guden Oden]

Java had weird problems with antialiasing being forced in the 3D-card control panel applet for some totally bizarre reason. The jar didn't even have to use 3D, just starting one would cause the problem to trigger (in my case, a solid black screen on bootup since azureus and another jar was in my autostart folder.

Even now after they fixed that issue, my screen blinks black for about a frame whenever java loads/starts up. Stupid crappy Sun coding!

So if you want to solve the problem, run the java update thingy from your control panel, or turn off forced antialiasing...

 

[MuFu]

Adding a new environmental variable, "J2D_D3D = false", worked for me. Cheers to Rys for the tip-off.

 

[Moloch]

Adding a new environmental variable, "J2D_D3D = false", worked for me. Cheers to Rys for the tip-off.

um what and where

 

[BRiT]

um what and where

For more info, here's the source reference material.

 d3d

    Intended use: To turn off the Java 2D system's use of Direct3D.
    Introduced: 1.4.1_02
    Equivalent environment variable: J2D_D3D
    How to use: On a small subset of Windows 2000 systems with buggy
    Direct3D drivers, the use of Direct3D can cause a system crash. To turn
    off the use of Direct3D, set this property to false:

        -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false

    If problems persist, try setting the ddoffscreen property to false. If that
    doesn't solve the problems, try setting noddraw to true.

 

[Kurt]

Thank you all for your input

 

[carpediem]

I try to convert everyone from anything to µtorrent. Here's a reason for you to switch...

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=6973

 

[suryad]

Upgrade your version of the JRE to jdk 1.5 update 6

 

[BRiT]

I try to convert everyone from anything to µtorrent. Here's a reason for you to switch...

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=6973

Azureus 2.4.x is very configurable and with some tweaking, it can be as effecient as µtorrent in concerns to disk io.

 

[micron]

If I've had Azeurus running for a bit, I dont really do much else on the computer. I've had some weird lockups, etc. as a result.

I have over a gig of memory so wtf?