Re: [PyMOL] File size?

[Vsevolod (S. I. <si...@cs...>]

Warren,

Thank you for your answer. I have an Nvidia card on my desktop with 
Nvidia drivers which I think include OpenGL support. PyMOL is still 
slow. How can I find out whether PyMOL is using hardware OpenGL or not?

Also, if I'm running PyMOL on a Linux server from, say, a Windows 
desktop, do I have to have hardware OpenGL support in Linux or in Windows?

Thanks,
Simon

Warren DeLano wrote on 11/14/2005 08:17 PM:
> Simon,
> 
> Most likely you need to install vendor-specific OpenGL drivers to enable
> hardware acceleration (Linux can't ship with them because they aren't
> open-source).  Refer to the web site for your graphics card vendor.  
> 
> Without such drivers, PyMOL falls back on software OpenGL rendering,
> which is much slower than RasMOL's more specialized molecule rendering
> engine.  With a decent OpenGL graphics card and installed drivers,
> PyMOL's performance should meet or exceed RasMOL.

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