I have a big swing desktop application. The switch to java 8 brought a massive performance problem with JTextFields on Intel HD Family (Windows 7) notebooks.
We discovered that disabling the d3d pipeline solved the performance problem. The question is: What happens on windows if you disable the d3d pipline? What pipeline does swing use? OpenGL?
Switch used:
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false How is it possible that disabling this pipline on windows improves performance on windows?