VMD 1.4 Windows Release Notes

Windows Installation Notes:

• VMD requires a pentium class machine with approximately 32MB of RAM, and 16-bit color video as a minimally useful configuration. The use of an OpenGL hardware accelerated video card is highly recommended.
• In order to achieve hardware accelerated 3-D rendering, your video board must have an "OpenGL ICD" type video driver. Once you have an appropriate driver, you may need to set the board it to a particular video mode in order to enable the hardware acceleration features. The instructions that come with the video driver should mention what modes are fully accelerated.
• Windows 98 and NT 4.0 installations should be trivial. Windows 98/NT ship with all necessary software components.
• Windows 95 should work as long as the Microsoft OpenGL libraries have been installed on the machine.
  Windows 95 users MUST have Winsock2 and OpenGL installed on their machines in order to run VMD.
  • Download Winsock2 for Win95
  • Download OpenGL 1.1 for Win95

Hardware 3-D video accelerators tested with VMD

• List of video boards and setup options for best VMD performance
• A list of 3-D accelerators that have stereo sync outputs

Windows 95/98/NT OpenGL Info at other Sites:

• List of 3D accelerators with full OpenGL drivers (www.opengl.org)
• SciTech GLDirect OpenGL translator for boards that support DirectX 6.x
• GLSetup, a new automated utility for Win 98