Posted by Sven Gothel on Jan 09, 2012; 9:32am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Re-Windows-Crashes-in-regards-to-PIXELFORMAT-setup-ATI-AMD-driver-tp3643518p3644122.html

On Monday, January 09, 2012 10:05:57 AM gouessej [via jogamp] wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I think that this feature might be useful to work around various problems on
> Intel and Nvidia graphics cards which worked fine with JOGL 1.1.1a but not
> with JOGL 2.0 (look at peq's case mentionned in another thread).

Sorry, but JOGL 1.1.1a used the current default, the GDI variant.

Well, I guess most old ATI driver/card problems are b/c of the new PFD / ARB attributes.

> However, it
> would fine to use it as a fallback solution when attempting to create a new
> context on Windows rather than asking the programmer to choose whether this
> flag should be set to true or false.

IMHO we should validate whether the 'wgl' variant helps anybody here.
It was just a 'desperate' move for the Intel HD 3000 bug 532
but before trashing this switch - I thought allow others to try if it helps w/ their problems.

~Sven