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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 15:46:21 CST

Hi,
  I'm guessing this is a weakness in the Intel OpenGL driver's
implementation of antialiased line rendering. Perhaps you need to adjust
the number of antialiasing samples in the video driver? A useful minimum
would be 4 samples per pixel, if you find a way to adjust this.

If you can't adjust the number of samples, what happens if you
disable antialiasing in VMD itself by toggling the Display->Antialiasing
checkbox in the main VMD menu?

Cheers,
  John

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:25:45PM -0500, Shi, Chuanyin wrote:
> Hi, All:
>
> Does anyone met problem when labeling atoms on machines with intel X4500HD integreted graphic card.
> The new laptop I got with intel x4500 (vista) has problem label atoms.
> It will label on the atom, but it's almost invisible, very very faint, no matter how I change the label color.
> I doubt the problem comes from the hardware, since my desktop with intel x3100 (vista) has no problem labeling them at all.
> Anybody has experience on this and got any solutions? Or any possible way to turn off hardware accelation?
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
>
> Chuanyin Shi
> 

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