Re: [PyMOL] PyMOL crashes under Vista Home Premium & Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

[H. A. S. <ad...@st...>]

One of my tricks is to only show part of the structure at a time, ray 
each part individually and the reassemble them in Photoshop. I do this 
all the time with the huge multi protein PyMol sessions I have to work 
on. It depends on your orientation in the viewer though, be careful to 
not cut anything off. With the ribo you can hide the large or the small 
subunit, render each separately, and then reassemble.

Michael Weber wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem when trying to ray 750,750 a quite large ribosome file 
> with maximum quality. Size of the relevant PyMOL v1.1 file is 100 MB (or 
> 31 MB after reducing objects I do not need for the figure production). 
> PyMOL simply crashes under Windows Vista Home Premium as well as under 
> Ubuntu Linux v8.04 LTS without error report. My dual OS system is a 
> Samsung Aura Seven Notebook (Core2Duo @2.4 GHz each, 3 GB of RAM, NVIDIA 
> GeForce 9200M GS graphics board with 256 MB of RAM, 12" TFT @1280x800 
> resolution settings). I first thought the RAM under Vista is still 
> insufficient (Vista alone takes 900 MB of the 3 GB of memory) but then  
> I realized that this crash occurs as well under Linux. However, since 
> both OS are 32 bit and therefore to my (limited) knowledge cannot handle 
> more than 2 GB in a single task, RAM limitation might still be an issue 
> to think about, right?
> I have experienced (and occasionally reported) this type of serious 
> crashes with PyMOL on a broad variety of machines over some years now - 
> usually occurring when trying to render final files - but, sadly, none 
> of these has ever been diagnosed and fixed properly. Maybe this time I 
> am lucky and someone knows what to do?
> Best regards,
> Michael.
>
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