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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2010 - 08:54:46 CDT

Hi,
  The issue with your performance is almost certainly the
integrated Intel graphics. Since this is a laptop, I'm
afraid that your only recourse is to seek out better drivers,
since there's likely nothing to be done about the on-board
graphics hardware you have in this laptop.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:09:59AM -0400, Yangyang Shen wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> I'm running Windows XP (I especially had XP installed, instead of Win7,
> cause I was afraid of the compatibility.) And I think the graphics
> hardware is integrated with intel CORE i5. When I start VMD, it prints the
> following:
>
> 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, 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 >
>
> Is there anything I can do to improve the graphics?
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Yangyang
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi,
> > You didn't mention what operating system you're running, but
> >this is an important detail, particularly in combination with
> >what graphics hardware you have. What does VMD print when it
> >starts up? It will identify the graphics hardware when it prints
> >out the OpenGL features during startup.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:08:11PM -0400, Yangyang Shen 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.
> >>
> >>Does anyone have similar problem? Please share your solution. Thanks a
> >>lot!
> >>
> >>--------
> >>Yangyang Shen
> >>Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
> >>Rutgers University
> >>732-445-2049
> >>
> >
> >--
> >NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> > 

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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
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