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From: Christoph Weber (cwebersd_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 01 2009 - 13:30:07 CDT

I don't normally start vmd from the command line, but yes, the hangs are
reproducible under Snow Leopard as one might expect.
John's suggestion to call the startup.command instead of the vmd executable
resolves the issue.

I am still impressed by the graphics speed, and also by the startup time of
applications.

Christoph

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Joshua D. Moore <jdmoore_at_unity.ncsu.edu>wrote:

> Thank Christoph!
> I can't wait for my upgrade! Are there any issues with hanging which was
> discussed last week due to Tcl/Tk or FLTK?
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/14257.html
>
> Thanks.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Christoph Weber <cwebersd_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> in case people have been wondering: VMD seems to run well on MacOSX 10.6
>> Snow Leopard. I ran both, VMD 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 without a hitch. Both are
>> noticeably faster on my March 2009 Macbook Pro with the lesser nVidia 9400
>> graphics, reaching almost the speed of the nVidia 9600 graphics card (which
>> I normally keep turned off - although with CUDA support in VMD 1.8.7 and
>> emerging OpenCL-stuff this may change...) under the previous OS. Good GLSL
>> speed, too.
>> Note: I tested only a few protein displays styles, the Surf plugin, the
>> MoviewMaker plugin, autpsfgen plugin, normal OpenGL rendering, GLSL, and
>> cachemode.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>
>