Posted by Sven Gothel on Sep 02, 2019; 1:19pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/GDI-SwapBuffers-is-crashing-after-Windows-Update-tp4040010p4040016.html

On 8/30/19 1:24 PM, gouessej [via jogamp] wrote:
> Hello
>
> Actually, it crashes on this call but the problem is probably elsewhere in the
> driver. Please provide much more information:
> https://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jogl_FAQ#Bugreports_.26_Testing

I posted the my latest Windows unit tests, but indeed the machine wasn't
updated to this Windows 10 update 1903 (May 2019).

Doing this errand today, maybe you are "lucky" and I reproduce the issue :)

>
> What you're looking for is impossible, you must call swapBuffers(). Either use
> another graphics card with a driver still working reliably with Microsoft
> Windows 10 update 1903 or try to use another version of the current driver or
> report this bug against the GPU designer (Nvidia, AMD, Intel, ...) or *use
> another operating system with a working OpenGL driver for your current
> hardware (any GNU Linux distribution)* or maybe use Mesa:
> https://fdossena.com/?p=mesa/index.frag

It is a PIA, Julien - yes.
However, I have to say one good thing about the API stability.
Our Windows regression tests on latest Java11 tip showed the least
regressions. *duck and hide*

Maybe Windows just wanted to catch up with the regression count,
pre this Windows update we only had 4 unit failures :)

More on Mesa3D hardware driver (in)stability later,
I could only use the software driver.

~Sven