VMD Windows 3D Acceleration Notes
VMD has been tested with and benefits from hardware 3D acceleration on many OpenGL-capable video boards. Note that some of these boards only provide hardware acceleration when they are running in particular display modes. The list below are video boards and configurations that have been recently tested with VMD.
| Video Board | OS | Stereo | Video Mode/Settings Notes |
| 3DFX Voodoo3 | Win98 | No | Must be in 16-bit color mode and using latest drivers in order for any OpenGL acceleration to work. The Win98 1.03.00 drivers worked beautifully for us, no problems. |
| 3DFX Voodoo3 | NT | No | Must be in 16-bit color mode and using latest drivers in order for any OpenGL acceleration to work. |
| 3DLabs GVX1 | Win 2000 | Unknown | Unknown |
| 3DLabs Permedia | Win 2000 | Unknown | 1024x768 |
| ATI Rage Pro Turbo | NT | No | Must be in Truecolor mode for hardware acceleration |
| ATI Rage Fury (Rage 128 chip) | NT | No | Must be in 16-bit color or Truecolor mode for hardware acceleration In the "ATI OpenGL" tab, select "Performance" in the "optimization preference" radio buttons. |
| Diamond FireGL 1000 8MB AGP | NT | Yes | Get latest driver, set for 1024x768, use "3D stereo support" configuration file under display properties. (with older drivers, use 800x600, 16-bit color, and "2nd Z-buffer" option) |
| Diamond Viper 770 (NVidia TNT2 Ultra) | NT | No | Both Truecolor and 16-bit color mode work fine. |
| Evans and Sutherland AccelStar-II | NT | Yes | 1024x768, 16-bit color, possibly several other modes. |
| Matrox G400 | NT | No | 32-bit color 1024x768 works fine |
| NVidia TNT2 Ultra | NT | No | All 32-bit and 16-bit color modes work great. |
| NVidia GeForce256 | NT | No | All 32-bit and 16-bit color modes work great. (fast) |
| NVidia GeForce256-DDR | NT | No | All 32-bit and 16-bit color modes work great. (fast) |
| NVidia GeForce 2 GTS | NT | No | All 32-bit and 16-bit color modes work great. (very fast) |
| NVidia GeForce 2 Ultra | NT | No | All 32-bit and 16-bit color modes work great. (very very fast) |
| NVidia Quadro | NT | No | All 32-bit and 16-bit color modes work great. (fast) |
| HP Visualize FX6 | NT | Yes | Get the latest drivers, VERY fast. |
| Intergraph "Z" | NT | Yes | Nice and fast. |
| SGI Visual Workstation 320 | NT | Yes | Any of the modes should work, VERY fast. |
