I have installed VMD 1.9.2 on Ubuntu machine and when I try to change the representation from lines to cartoon the GUI becomes very slow and one can feel like VMD is not working. It does not slow down my PC. Its just that problem with VMD. Especially when I open a big protein consisting of say 11000 atoms, VMD starts struggling in cartoon representation. I have a dual boot and in windows 10 in the same PC vmd works perfectly.Can anyone please help me sorting out this problem?
Agree with M.Florencia. For proper functioning VMD 1.9.2 in Ubuntu 16.04 requires DRI-based openGL and X-server. If it works smooth in windows10 - most probably in ubuntu you are missing some openGL libraries or drivers for videocard do not perform well .
Some people reported problems with nVidia driver 375->381.22.
Agree with M.Florencia. For proper functioning VMD 1.9.2 in Ubuntu 16.04 requires DRI-based openGL and X-server. If it works smooth in windows10 - most probably in ubuntu you are missing some openGL libraries or drivers for videocard do not perform well .
Some people reported problems with nVidia driver 375->381.22.
Well then Let me try to reconfigure the openGL and X-server and see whether that works or not. But thanks for your suggestion Lyudmyla Dorosh.
Well then Let me try to reconfigure the openGL and X-server and see whether that works or not. But thanks for your suggestion Lyudmyla Dorosh.
I guess you have a problem with your 3D graphics accelerator. I used to have the same problem and I'd solve it by installing the correct driver. Installing correct drivers on Linux is a pain.
To make sure, you could try to run a high quality 3D animation movie (big hero 6, etc) and see how it performs.
Hi Ahmed, Thanks for your response. I certainly have a problem with AMD drivers. AMD does not have drivers for the graphic card that I have specifically for Ubuntu 16.04. I have even tried by using ubuntu 14.04 but it did not work out for me.
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