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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 18:31:54 CST

Hi,
  As far as I know, VMWare doesn't allow the use of
hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics. When your VMD 1.8a29
starts up, what does it give for the "OpenGL Renderer:" string??
This would tell us a lot. If VMWare _IS_ getting hardware
acceleration, then it must be a trickier problem, but my
first guess is that you're being forced to use a software
OpneGL renderer, which would completely explain why your
CPU is getting pegged during the time that VMD runs.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:05:14PM -0800, jen ramus wrote:
> I run windows98 on vmware 3.2 on mandrake 8.2 and am
> having trouble getting VMD to run at a useful speed. I
> have installed vmd 1.8a29 and 1.7.2 and both of them
> run very slowly. The CPU usage is at 100%. I have
> changed around the memory allocation which does not
> seem to help.
> I have 512MB of RAM and allocated everything from 92
> to over 300 to vmd.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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