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From: Charles McCallum (mmccallum_at_pacific.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 13:12:39 CDT

I've always had the axes disabled, so I never noticed the slowdown. On
my 1.25GHz AlBook the speed is quite nice and smooth (due mostly to the
9600 video card, no doubt!).

Cheers,

Mike
On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 05:00 US/Pacific, Dafydd Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>  I have recently upgraded my machine from a G3 400 MHz Powerbook to a
> G4 1GHz Powerbook and now VMD 1.8.1 (and 1.8) runs very very slowly on
> my new machine. Does anybody have any idea why this is? Both machines
> are running 10.2.8. The OpenGL renderer on my present machine used by
> VMD is ATI Radeon 9600 OpenGL Engine whereas on my older machine it is
> Ati Rage 128 Pro OpenGL engine. My OpenGL framework on the G4 is
> OpenGL 1.2.4.10.0 as it is on my old machine.
>
> Thanks,
>
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