Does LWJGL (bare) use software or hardware rendering?

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Does the bare LWJGL distribution use hardware rendering or software rendering?

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LWJGL always uses hardware rendering. Since it is a games library, it just quits if no hardware rendering is available.

From the LWJGL wiki: "Made the library throw an exception when hardware acceleration is not available on Windows. No point in running at 5fps is there? "(LWJGL wiki)

There is a command-line switch org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.allowSoftwareOpenGL but I don't think you can force it to use software rendering.

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