We don't use Java or Java Web Start in our browsers. Can you post the command line invocation and/or .ini files that would start SweetHome3D-2.0 in the Java3D1.3 mode on Windows and Linux?
# Place this file in the same directory as SweetHome3D.exe file to always run Sweet Home 3D with DirectX
-Dj3d.rend=d3d
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=true
-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=false
-Dsun.java2d.ddoffscreen=true
-Dsun.java2d.ddscale=true
-Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.deploymentInformation=DirectX
unzip the file java3d-1_3_2-windows-i586\j3d-132-win.zip
copy the 6 files j3dcore-d3d.dll, j3dcore-ogl.dll, j3dcore-utils.dll, j3dcore.jar, j3dutils.jar and vecmath.jar to the lib subdirectory in Sweet Home 3D directory
launch Sweet Home 3D
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Thanks, the lib/dll downgrade to java3d-1.3.2 does appear to work better. I can access the properties and print preview as well as I could with the DirectX method.
As a user data point of what doesn't work out of the box, but will with java3d downgrade: this is on a laptop with a Mobile Intel 965 Express chipset with integrated graphics. The driver is version 6.14.10.4906.