Re: [PyMOL] Pymol slow on a mac G4 with os 10.1

[Florian N. <fn...@ma...>]

Russell Poyner <rp...@fa...> wrote:

> The machine is a newish G4 733Mhz 256K ram with a radeon 7500 card.  I 
> have
> installed the Fink version of pymol with the Fink supplied Xfree.  It 
> works
> but is noticably slower than pymol on my 500 Mhz K6/lintel box, also 
> with a
> radeon 7500 and Xig xserver.
>
> It would seem that the mac installation is not benefitting from the 
> graphics
> hardware despite claims of full acceleration in the xserver.  If there 
> is a
> trick here that I am missing please let me know.
>

  I suggest you to use the beta of the native MacOS X version:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pymol/pymol-0_79a.dmg.gz

Although it's a beta, it should be blazingly fast on a G4.
Attention, it's a pre 0.8 version and the last features are not  
implemented.
Moreover, the menus are not implemented at all.

By the way, for some reasons, the prompt in PyMol's window is not 
accessible when using MacOS X version 10.2. So if you want to keep the 
beta functional, either don't upgrade or keep MacOS X.1 as a dual boot 
option.

Hopefully, Warren will fix this soon.

regards,