VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 15:51:06 CDT

Yang,
  What video card are you using? It sounds to me like there's
some sort of problem with your video drivers. If you can provide
me with more information about your system I should be able to help.
The standard advice for people running Windows is to make absolutely
sure that you've got working video drivers for your graphics board
installed, and that they are up-to-date. If you're sure about that,
then the next step would be to try running the program in a different
way by going into the "My Computer" system settings and add a new
environment variable "VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS" with the value "1". Once
added, this should force VMD to be much more conservative with the
graphics features it uses, and you may then be able to run ok on
your machine. If not, then you'll need to work with me to determine
what the exact cause of the problem is.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:13:59PM +0800, Yang Zhenyu wrote:
> Dear VMD users
>
> I have installed VMD 1.8.3 to my computer with Windows XP (SP2) operate system.
> But when start the program, the windows of VMD appear and are closed with a flash in the screen. So, I cant't get into the program at all. I have tried to install it newly. But it does not work.
>
> Anyone could help me out ?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
> 　　　　　　　
> 　Best Regards
>
> 　Yang Zhenyu
> State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM)
> Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
> No.15 Beisihuanxi Road
> Beijing 100080, P. R. China
> 　yangzy_at_lnm.imech.ac.cn
> 　2005-10-13
> 

-- 
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