From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 30 2016 - 02:45:46 CDT

Hi!

Since VMD is still 32bit on windows, you can't load more than 4GB into
memory.

You can load less frames (using stride), or create a trajectory without the
solvent and load that into memory completely.

Best,
Ajasja

On 30 March 2016 at 00:48, Stefano Guglielmo <stefano.guglielmo_at_unito.it>
wrote:

> Dear vmd users,
>
> I am trying to load a dcd file of a molecular dynamic simulation, but
> after several frames (a little more than 5000) a runtime error occurred for
> microsoft visual c++ runtime library, which causes abnormal termination for
> vmd.
> I usually manage to load shorter trajectories without any problem.
> I am using vmd 1.9.2 on a laptop with quadcore i7, 12 GB RAM running
> windows 8.1.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions?
> Thanks in advance
>
> Stefano
>
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