From: Minh Ho (minhho_at_umass.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 15 2021 - 15:21:52 CST

Hello,

I also have the same problem. I am not sure where to look to solve this
issue. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,
Minh

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 9:33 PM Emma Wu <ewu20_at_illinois.edu> wrote:

> 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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>>
>

-- 
*Minh Ho*
BS Biochemistry, Class of 2021
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Massachusetts Amherst