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From: Yangyang Shen (yyshen_at_rci.rutgers.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2010 - 08:34:40 CDT

Hi, thanks for your help.

VMD prints the following message ..
Info) Multithreading available, 4 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 2047MB (100%)
Info) OpenGL renderer: Intel(R) HD Graphics
Info) Features: STENCIL MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF)
Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (4096x4096), 3-D (256x256x256), Multitexture (8)
Info) Spaceball driver not installed. Spaceball interface disabled.
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 >

My system has more than 100K atoms, and I was able to view the trajectory
on my old computer (maybe it has better graphics chip from NVIDIA).

I really hope the new Intel i series CPUs have an OK graphics integrated.
Could you advice me how to check and fix what might be misconfigured?
Thanks a lot!

Yangyang

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Yangyang Shen <yyshen_at_rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed VMD 1.8.7 Windows OpenGL version on my laptop, but the
>> display is slow, even freeze itself, when I try to rotate the molecules.
>> Does anyone know what might be the problem?
>>
>> My laptop is a Dell Latitude E5410 with Intel Core i5 @ 2.4GHz and 3GB of
>> RAM. I'm not sure about the graphic card, though.
>
> vmd prints a message about the detected graphics into the console window.
>
> please cut and paste.
>
>> Does anyone have similar problem? Please share your solution. Thanks a lot!
>
> if you have slow graphics chip, there is little that you can do.
> if it is misconfigured, you need to fix it.
>
> chances are, that you have intel chipset graphics,
> and those are slow. how slow also depends a lot
> on how complex a visualization you have.
>
> please provide an example.
>
> cheers,
> axel.
>
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>> Yangyang Shen
>> Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
>> Rutgers University
>> 732-445-2049
>>
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> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com
> http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
>