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From: Joshua D. Moore (jdmoore_at_unity.ncsu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 31 2009 - 22:20:51 CDT

Thank Christoph!
I can't wait for my upgrade! Are there any issues with hanging which was
discussed last week due to Tcl/Tk or FLTK?

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/14257.html

Thanks.

Josh

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Joshua D. Moore
Graduate Student
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Box 7905 Centennial Campus
Engineering Building I
911 Partners Way
Raleigh, NC 27695-7905
Phone: (919) 513-2051
Fax: (919) 513-2470
Email: jdmoore_at_unity.ncsu.edu
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Christoph Weber <cwebersd_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> in case people have been wondering: VMD seems to run well on MacOSX 10.6
> Snow Leopard. I ran both, VMD 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 without a hitch. Both are
> noticeably faster on my March 2009 Macbook Pro with the lesser nVidia 9400
> graphics, reaching almost the speed of the nVidia 9600 graphics card (which
> I normally keep turned off - although with CUDA support in VMD 1.8.7 and
> emerging OpenCL-stuff this may change...) under the previous OS. Good GLSL
> speed, too.
> Note: I tested only a few protein displays styles, the Surf plugin, the
> MoviewMaker plugin, autpsfgen plugin, normal OpenGL rendering, GLSL, and
> cachemode.
>
> Christoph
>