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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 15:43:18 CDT

Dear Taeho,
  Have you tried turning off the Axes?
Use the Display->Axes->Off menu item to disable them. We've found
that some revs of the Apple OpenGL drivers have a performance issue
with the VMD Axes. I'm working on improving this for VMD 1.8.2 before
we release.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:11:26PM -0400, taeho.kim_at_utoronto.ca wrote:
> Hi
> I am wondering whether the performance of VMD would be affected by a new ver
> of Mac OSX, 10.2.8. Our Mac OSX has been upgraded to 10.2.8 and I realized
> that reading trajectories including rendering seemed much slower on 10.2.8
> than 10.2.6. (i.e. it might take a second to read a frame.) I appreciate any
> information on this. Thanks,
> Taeho 

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