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From: Emily Chen (chen2041_at_umn.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2010 - 13:53:30 CDT

Oh, dear, I'm sorry! I thought I was in another window, sending an email to
myself. Is there any way I can delete them? Again, I apologize!

Emily

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Emily Chen <chen2041_at_umn.edu> wrote:

> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ma901447e
> http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CS/article.asp?doi=b901978m
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:54 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> The issue with your performance is almost certainly the
>> integrated Intel graphics. Since this is a laptop, I'm
>> afraid that your only recourse is to seek out better drivers,
>> since there's likely nothing to be done about the on-board
>> graphics hardware you have in this laptop.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John Stone
>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:09:59AM -0400, Yangyang Shen wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Thanks for your quick reply.
>> >
>> > I'm running Windows XP (I especially had XP installed, instead of Win7,
>> > cause I was afraid of the compatibility.) And I think the graphics
>> > hardware is integrated with intel CORE i5. When I start VMD, it prints
>> the
>> > following:
>> >
>> > Info) VMD for WIN32, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
>> > Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>> > Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> > Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
>> > Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
>> > Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
>> > Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Info) Multithreading available, 4 CPUs detected.
>> > Info) Free system memory: 2047MB (100%)
>> > Info) OpenGL renderer: Intel(R) HD Graphics
>> > Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
>> > Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
>> > Info) Textures: 2-D (4096x4096), 3-D (256x256x256), Multitexture (8)
>> > Info) Spaceball driver not installed. Spaceball interface disabled.
>> > Info) No joysticks found. Joystick interface disabled.
>> > Found 68 plugins or data handlers in directory
>> > 'C:/Program Files/University of
>> Illinois/VMD/plugins/WIN32/molfile'.
>> > vmd >
>> >
>> > Is there anything I can do to improve the graphics?
>> > Thanks a lot!
>> >
>> > Yangyang
>> >
>> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, John Stone wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >Hi,
>> > > You didn't mention what operating system you're running, but
>> > >this is an important detail, particularly in combination with
>> > >what graphics hardware you have. What does VMD print when it
>> > >starts up? It will identify the graphics hardware when it prints
>> > >out the OpenGL features during startup.
>> > >
>> > >Cheers,
>> > > John Stone
>> > > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> > >
>> > >On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:08:11PM -0400, Yangyang Shen wrote:
>> > >>Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >>I just installed VMD 1.8.7 Windows OpenGL version on my laptop, but
>> the
>> > >>display is slow, even freeze itself, when I try to rotate the
>> molecules.
>> > >>Does anyone know what might be the problem?
>> > >>
>> > >>My laptop is a Dell Latitude E5410 with Intel Core i5 @ 2.4GHz and 3GB
>> > >>of RAM. I'm not sure about the graphic card, though.
>> > >>
>> > >>Does anyone have similar problem? Please share your solution. Thanks a
>> > >>lot!
>> > >>
>> > >>--------
>> > >>Yangyang Shen
>> > >>Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
>> > >>Rutgers University
>> > >>732-445-2049
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > >--
>> > >NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> > >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>> > >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>> > >Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
>> > > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/> Fax: 217-244-6078
>> > >
>>
>> --
>> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
>> WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/%7Ejohns/>
>> Fax: 217-244-6078
>>
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