I have been having problems with sites that use java. One for example is pogo games. When I try to load a game my screen goes black and I have to reboot. I have uninstalled and reinstalled java 5 update 6 and the same thing keeps happening. I went to java in the control panel and just clicking on the icon makes the screen go black. Anybody have any ideas what is going on? I am using windows XP.
Make sure you have anti-aliasing set to Application-Controlled: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000041100.xml
Make sure you've updated to the latest video drivers.
Make sure Directx is updated to the latest version.
If that still doesn't work read http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=661574&start=0&tstart=0 and then try adding to your environment _JAVA_OPTIONS variable -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false. If that doesn't work try -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true
If the problem was AA, then and you still want to force all 3d applications to use AA and you don't want to keep changing your graphics card display options, you can disable java's use of the Direct3D by setting an environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS to -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false. This will allow you too keep your AA settings. Disabling Direct3D is the proposed update to 1.5 to fix this bug. See http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6311320
