<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Sergei,<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As far as we know, current Radeon drivers only crash Chimera, not ChimeraX. You should try ChimeraX with your current card. It may work fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">--Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Eric Pettersen</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 22, 2021, at 9:04 AM, Sergei I. Sukharev via Chimera-users <<a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Colleagues, indeed, I am looking for a good video card to work with ChimeraX.<div class="">I had real trouble using the latest AMD drivers which crush the program at the start.</div><div class="">What are good alternatives?</div><div class="">thanks</div><div class="">sergei </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 11:49 AM Elaine Meng <<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class=""><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">"Sergei I. Sukharev" <<a href="mailto:sukharev@umd.edu" target="_blank" class="">sukharev@umd.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><b class="">video card for chimera?</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">October 22, 2021 at 8:37:27 AM PDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Colleagues,<div class="">I am upgrading my PC and I would take your recommendations about the best video cards that would work with Chimera and Phenix.</div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">sergei sukharev, umd</div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Hi Sergei,</div><div class="">We recommend taking a look at using ChimeraX instead of Chimera. We are actively developing ChimeraX (but not Chimera) and in the future it may have features specifically for working with Phenix. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have to leave the video card question for others, but encourage responses about what works well with ChimeraX.</div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Elaine</div><div class=""><div class="">-----</div><div class="">Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. </div><div class="">UCSF Chimera(X) team</div><div class="">Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry</div><div class="">University of California, San Francisco</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div>
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