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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 21:02:57 CDT

Hi,
  Which NVIDIA driver version are you running? This sounds like an
OpenGL driver bug to me, since I don't get a crash on either my
NVIDIA-equipped test boxes at the lab, or an an old laptop with
an outdated ATI chipset.

I've had two other people tell me that they have encountered a
crash with the beta, having the exact driver information
for affected machines will be very helpful so I can report bugs
the GPU vendors.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:14:34PM +0200, MyLinkka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm eager to try out the new Beta version. 2 days ago, I installed 1.8.7
> beta 2 on both my laptop and
> desktop PC. Beta 2 crashes on the laptop but worked on the PC. Both
> computers have Nvidia graphics
> card (FX2700M and Geforce 8600 GT). Today I installed the latest beta
> 3 on both. Sadly beta 3
> crashed on both computers! Before install beta2, I didn't install any
> software or update drivers.
> That's why I turn to this mailing list, cause I think it is almost for
> sure an issue from vmd.
>
> The symptom is the same. After starting vmd, first the console window
> showed, it seems fine and
> it listed information and capability of my graphics card. Then the 3D
> window popped up, I could
> see the 3D texts and the axes at the corner. (my feeling it the OpenGl
> context and scene had been
> created without problem.) Finally it's the turn of the main control
> windows, I can see the window
> frame, but before the contents (menus,buttons) could be seen the program
> crashed.
>
> on my laptop, the system report a "the memory could not be 'read'"
> error. On the PC,
> an error happend at offset 0x00028c0d in ntdll.dll.
>
> BTW, vmd 1.8.6 work perfect on both computers.
>
> Could anyone point me what to do? Is there a way to generate a startup
> log file to address the error
> source?
>
> thanks!
>
> ting 

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