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From: Guo Zhi (gzgzgz_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 02 2010 - 18:16:54 CST

Hi VMD users,

    I just downloaded vmd 1.8.7 and can not even start it on my system.
    It aborted at very early stage, so very little information can be
achieved here.

    My system:
                                CPU: AMD Athlon XP5000+
                                RAM: 2GB
                                Running Windows XP SP3
                                Video card: nVidia Geforce 9500 GT, 512MB
RAM + Driver version (2009-11-20, 6.14.11.9562)

   I tried vmd 1.8.7CUDA/1.8.7/1.8.6, none of them worked.

   All these three have the same symptom, the first cmd window flashed and
faded away very quick. If typed in cmd window to start,
   either it accepted the command without any response(no output), or just
output the copyright information:

Info) VMD for WIN32, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
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: 1437MB (70%)
Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
Info) [0] GeForce 9500 GT 4 SM_1.1 @ 1.40 GHz, 511MB RAM, KTO, OIO
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...

and then exit, the graphics rendering windows was never started.

If typed in "vmd -debug", still the same symptom.

No idea about how to solve this problem. If you need more information to
diagnose, please point it out, thanks!

Guo