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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 03 2010 - 01:56:14 CST

Hi,
  From your description, it sounds to me like your problem is
either related to the graphics startup or that the problem might
be caused by a conflict with a DLL installed by another program
interfering with the ones used by VMD. One way to narrow this
down somewhat would be to run VMD in text mode and see if you
still encounter the crash. Do this as follows:

Start a command shell (use the "run" item in the start menu if you're
running XP, and specify "cmd" as the name of the program).

Once you have a command shell, do this and see what happens:

C:\>
C:\>"Program Files\University of Illinois\VMD\vmd" -dispdev text
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, 1 CPU detected.
Info) Free system memory: 529MB (51%)
Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available.
Info) No joysticks found. Joystick interface disabled.
Found 68 plugins or data handlers in directory
        'C:/Program Files/University of Illinois/VMD/plugins/WIN32/molfile'.
vmd > quit
Info) VMD for WIN32, version 1.8.7 (August 1, 2009)
Info) Exiting normally.
C:\>

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:16:54PM -0700, Guo Zhi wrote:
> 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 

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