[PyMOL] Unable to use NVIDIA as GL_Vendor

[PALLAV S. <s.p...@ii...>]

Dear users,
I have been using PyMOL quite some time and the NVIDIA cannot be used for rendering although I have all the required drivers installed yet during the startup, I have been encountering a message like this:

PyMOL(TM) Molecular Graphics System, Version 2.3.0.
Detected OpenGL version 3.1. Shaders available.
 Geometry shaders not available
 Detected GLSL version 1.40.
 OpenGL graphics engine:
  GL_VENDOR:   Mesa/X.org
  GL_RENDERER: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0, 256 bits)
  GL_VERSION:  3.1 Mesa 21.2.6
 Detected 16 CPU cores.  Enabled multithreaded rendering.

This is the information of my graphics card:
*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GP104GL [Quadro P4000]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:65:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:48 memory:d7000000-d7ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:b000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

This means that the PyMOL is unable to use NVIDIA as the GL_Vendor and also the Quadro P4000 as the GL_RENDERER. Is there any way during installation by which I can utilize the NVIDIA graphics acceleration such that I get better performance during rendering?

Pallav Sengupta,
Research Scholar,
Computational Biology Lab,
Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering(BSBE),
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
Guwahati, 781039.