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From: Roland Schmucki (schmucki_at_gsc.riken.jp)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 20:38:49 CDT

Hello!

Before my workstation has broken (RedHat 9.0), I was using VMD 1.8.5
without any troubles and the graphical performance was very good.
After replacement of the whole computer (not a new one though, similar
processor, same amount of RAM, it contains another video card, nVidia
NV34 GeForceFX5500, newer OS, Fedora Core 6) the performance of VMD is
too slow.
I've already checked the VMD mailing list about this matter
(http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/8703.html).
Considering all that, should I use the video card of the broken computer
instead?

Does anybody know what I should do to solve this problem?

Thank you very much for your advice and suggestions.

Roland

PS: Here is the "vmd console"-output after starting up VMD:

Info) VMD for LINUX, version 1.8.6 (April 6, 2007)
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, 2 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 1783MB (88%)
Info) OpenGL renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
Info) Features: STENCIL MDE MTX NPOT PP PS
Info) GLSL rendering mode is NOT available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (2048x2048), Multitexture (8)