Re: [PyMOL] Pymol and Ray Tracing

2018-10-30 Thread Thomas Holder
Hi Steve and Shintaro, Shintaro is right, PyMOL's ray tracing is CPU only. It runs parallel on multiple CPU cores. Our graphics development over the last years was focused on getting the real-time OpenGL rendering (which uses the GPU heavily) as close to the ray traced images as possible. Lightin

Re: [PyMOL] Pymol and Ray Tracing

2018-10-30 Thread Stephen Gravina
Thanks for the tip! On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:10 AM Thomas Holder wrote: > Hi Steve and Shintaro, > > Shintaro is right, PyMOL's ray tracing is CPU only. It runs parallel > on multiple CPU cores. > > Our graphics development over the last years was focused on getting > the real-time OpenGL rende

[PyMOL] PyMol display problem on Windows 10

2018-10-30 Thread Yufeng Tong
Hi there, I installed PyMol on a new laptop (Windows 10, within Anaconda3) and run into a display problem, which does not exist on a Windows 7 laptop. Basically, the displayed molecules does not have the 3D visual effect and the colors are very dark. Only after I apply "ray", it shows normal colo

Re: [PyMOL] PyMol display problem on Windows 10

2018-10-30 Thread Thomas Holder
Hi Yufeng, This is a problem with a recent graphics driver update from Intel on Windows 10. So far it appears that the build series "4.5.0 - Build 24.20.100." is affected. Can you please tell us what PyMOL reports as "OpenGL graphics engine" (3 lines printed in log window on startup)? Luckily