From: Emma Wu (ewu20_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 07 2021 - 19:43:27 CST

Thank you for all your replies! I was able to get VMD running on my windows
system! However, I am trying to use ffTK on VMD but I am running into this
error:

vmd > ERROR) Creation of window for 'forcefieldtoolkit' failed (version
conflict for package "msgcat": have 1.4.2, need 1.6).

I tried looking for the 1.6 mscat package but I was unable to find the
standalone 1.6 mscat. I was wondering if someone would know where to point
me to the 1.6 mscat package?

Thank you!

Best,
Emma

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:08 AM John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> Are you still unable to get VMD to start if you start a
> windows command prompt and run the command "set VMDNOOSPRAY=1" ?
> I would expect that to cure this problem for you as it has for others.
> Your email didn't show any output following the vmd.exe launch command,
> so it's not clear what the result of your test was.
>
> Best regards,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 07:16:24PM -0600, Emma Wu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have recently downloaded the Windows 64-bit, CUDA, OptiX, OSPRay
> (64-bit
> > Intel x86_64)
> > <
> https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?UserID=493560&AccessCode=56485971330592205374629169800359&ArchiveID=1647
> >
> > (Windows
> > 10). However, when I try to run it, VMD doesn't work. I get the following
> > issue:
> >
> > Info) VMD for WIN64, version 1.9.4a51 (December 21, 2020)
> > 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, 8 CPUs detected.
> > Info) CPU features: SSE2 SSE4.1 AVX AVX2 FMA F16 HT
> > Info) Free system memory: 27GB (85%)
> > Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
> > Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro M620/PCIe/SSE2
> > Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)
> > Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> > Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (4096x4096x4096), Multitexture
> (4)
> > Info) No joysticks found. Joystick interface disabled.
> > #osp: INITIALIZATION ERROR --> #osp:api: could not find module
> initializer
> > ospray_init_module_ispc
> > #osp: INITIALIZATION ERROR --> Could not find device of type: default.
> > Make sure you have the correct OSPRay libraries linked.
> > #osp: INITIALIZATION ERROR --> OSPRay not yet initialized (most likely
> this
> > means you tried to call an ospray API function before first calling
> > ospInit())(pid 1768)
> >
> > I've looked through the VMD mailing and this is the output I get after I
> > try:
> > PS C:\Program Files\VMD> set VMDNOOSPRAY=1
> > PS C:\Program Files\VMD> .\vmd.exe
> >
> > I was wondering what I could do to fix this issue? Thanks!
> >
> > Best,
> > Emma
>
>
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