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From: Rogan Carr (rogan_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2007 - 16:01:54 CST

You might also try loading only the protein part of your trajectory, if
you want to use timeline to look at how the secondary structure changes
over time. With out water+solvent, you'll probably use much less
memory.

Rogan

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 00:35 -0600, John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> The existing versions of VMD for Windows are all standard 32-bit builds,
> and so the maximum amount of physical memory they can access is limited
> to 2GB or less. As the timeline plugin only operates on trajectory data
> that's loaded into memory, there's not a convenient way to use it with
> trajectories that are far too large to fit into memory. My suggestion
> would be to use the timeline plugin on a subset of your data at a time,
> either by skipping frames during loading (use the start/end/step) controls
> in the molecule file loading window, or by loading only some of your files
> at a time. Let us know if you need help with this.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:54:00AM +0530, aneesh cna wrote:
> > hello,
> > I am using timeline plugin in vmd . For that I have to load more
> > than 60 .crd files generated using amber ( total more than 6GiB in
> > size). But after loading the files it showing some errors like '
> > Microsoft runtime error' ( I am using windows version of VMD) and vmd
> > is closing immediately after that. Is there a way to load large number
> > of .crd files in vmd for using timeline plugin?
> >
> >
> > with regards
> > ANEESH
>