Yes, the Fink and GNU/Darwin versions of PyMOL are unaccelerated. As far as I know, the only way to get access to hardware is to call Apple's platform-specific OpenGL libraries from within a platform-specific window.
I am still working on the native OSX port, but with competition from all the other PyMOL priorities: such as new features, bug-fixes, and support, not to mention my own career and personal life, it is taking far longer to complete than I anticipated. There was an incomplete test version available with acceleration, but OS 10.2 has reportedly broken it. If you can put up with software rendering, then X-windows based Fink or GNU/Darwin versions are fine. But if you want fast PyMOL, then an x86-based PC with Windows or Linux is the only alternative (we're talking about a 10-50X performance difference of hardware over software -- huge!). Plus, PC's can do stereo -- Macs can't. If you need fast 3D graphics on a Mac, I'd encourage you to look around for other 3D viewers for at least the next couple months. VMD reportedly has a native version...though I haven't tried it myself. Warren -- mailto:war...@sunesis.com Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Informatics Manager Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 341 Oyster Point Blvd. S. San Francisco, CA 94080 (650)-266-3606 FAX:(650)-266-3501 > -----Original Message----- > From: Russell Poyner [mailto:rpoy...@facstaff.wisc.edu] > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 7:56 AM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [PyMOL] Pymol slow on a mac G4 with os 10.1 > > > 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. > > Thanks > > Russell Poyner > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old > cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! > https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >
