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  http://forums.java.net/jive/message.jspa?messageID=245439#245439

Rendering artifacts occur in my custom charts and in JFreeChart charts as well. The artifacts go away when I disable the new pipeline.

Here is the trace output:
CheckAdaptersInfo
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Adapter Ordinal : 0
Adapter Handle : 0x10001
Description : NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M
GDI Name, Driver : \\.\DISPLAY1, nv4_disp.dll
Vendor Id : 0x10de
Device Id : 0x1d7
SubSys Id : 0x1c21028
Driver Version : 6.14.10.8313
GUID : D7B71E3E-4297-11CF-E153C82100C2CB35
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InitD3D: successfully created Direct3D9 object
D3DGD_getDeviceCapsNative
D3DPPLM::CheckDeviceCaps: adapter 0: Passed
D3DContext::InitContext device 0
D3DContext::ConfigureContext device 0
D3DContext::ConfigureContext: successfully created device: 0
D3DContext::InitDevice: device 0
D3DContext::InitDefice: successfully initialized device 0
[V] | CAPS_DEVICE_OK
[V] | CAPS_ALPHA_RT_PLAIN
[V] | CAPS_ALPHA_RTT
[V] | CAPS_OPAQUE_RTT
[V] | CAPS_LCD_SHADER | CAPS_BIOP_SHADER
[V] | CAPS_MULTITEXTURE
[V] | CAPS_TEXNONPOW2
[V] | CAPS_TEXNONSQUARE


(the app and screenshot and attached)