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From: Emily Chen (chen2041_at_umn.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2010 - 13:51:37 CDT

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ma901447e
http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CS/article.asp?doi=b901978m

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:54 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> 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
> > >>
> > >
> > >--
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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
> > > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/%7Ejohns/> Fax: 217-244-6078
> > >
>
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> 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/ <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/%7Ejohns/>
> Fax: 217-244-6078
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