Selection outline not rendered

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The following bug report has been submitted:
Platform:        macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit
ChimeraX Version: 1.4.dev202201220431 (2022-01-22 04:31:18 UTC)
Description
The selection is not shown on the 3D image on MacOS (latest) (intel). To replicate - open any PDB and select a chain or residue.  Having said that, the same version works fine on Linux box

Log:
UCSF ChimeraX version: 1.4.dev202201220431 (2022-01-22)  
© 2016-2021 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.  
How to cite UCSF ChimeraX  

> open "/Users/kir/Library/Mobile
> Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Проекты/Molecula/7jw0-loopsHL+epitope.pdb"
> format pdb

Summary of feedback from opening /Users/kir/Library/Mobile
Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Проекты/Molecula/7jw0-loopsHL+epitope.pdb  
---  
warnings | Start residue of secondary structure not found: HELIX 1 1 GLN L 79
PHE L 83 1 5  
Start residue of secondary structure not found: HELIX 2 2 SER L 122 LYS L 127
1 6  
Start residue of secondary structure not found: HELIX 3 3 ALA L 185 TYR L 187
1 3  
Start residue of secondary structure not found: HELIX 4 4 THR H 28 TYR H 32 1
5  
Start residue of secondary structure not found: HELIX 5 5 ASP H 73 LYS H 75 1
3  
44 messages similar to the above omitted  
  
7jw0-loopsHL+epitope.pdb title:  
Sars-cov-2 spike In complex with the S304 neutralizing antibody fab fragment
[more info...]  
  
Chain information for 7jw0-loopsHL+epitope.pdb  
---  
Chain | Description | UniProt  
1.2/A | sars-cov-2 spike glycoprotein | SPIKE_SARS2  
1.1/H | S304 fab heavy chain |  
1.1/L | S304 fab light chain |  
  

> sequence chain #1.1/L

Alignment identifier is 1.1/L  

> select
> #1.1/L:4-7,10-13,19-25,33-38,44-49,53-54,62-67,70-75,84-90,98-99,103-107,115-119,130-140,146-151,154-155,160-164,174-183,192-198,206-211

538 atoms, 521 bonds, 107 residues, 1 model selected  

> select #1.1/L:118

5 atoms, 4 bonds, 1 residue, 1 model selected  

> select #1.1/L:118

5 atoms, 4 bonds, 1 residue, 1 model selected  

> select
> #1.1/L:4-7,10-13,19-25,33-38,44-49,53-54,62-67,70-75,84-90,98-99,103-107,115-119,130-140,146-151,154-155,160-164,174-183,192-198,206-211

538 atoms, 521 bonds, 107 residues, 1 model selected  

> select #1.1/L:110

5 atoms, 4 bonds, 1 residue, 1 model selected  

> select #1.1/L:110-111

10 atoms, 9 bonds, 2 residues, 1 model selected  




OpenGL version: 4.1 ATI-4.7.101
OpenGL renderer: AMD Radeon Pro 5300M OpenGL Engine
OpenGL vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

Locale: UTF-8
Qt version: PyQt5 5.15.2, Qt 5.15.2
Qt platform: cocoa
Hardware:

    Hardware Overview:

      Model Name: MacBook Pro
      Model Identifier: MacBookPro16,1
      Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Core i7
      Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
      Number of Processors: 1
      Total Number of Cores: 6
      L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
      L3 Cache: 12 MB
      Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
      Memory: 32 GB
      System Firmware Version: 1715.60.5.0.0 (iBridge: 19.16.10647.0.0,0)
      OS Loader Version: 540.60.2~89

Software:

    System Software Overview:

      System Version: macOS 12.1 (21C52)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 21.2.0
      Time since boot: 4 days 17:15

Graphics/Displays:

    Intel UHD Graphics 630:

      Chipset Model: Intel UHD Graphics 630
      Type: GPU
      Bus: Built-In
      VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 1536 MB
      Vendor: Intel
      Device ID: 0x3e9b
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Automatic Graphics Switching: Supported
      gMux Version: 5.0.0
      Metal Family: Supported, Metal GPUFamily macOS 2

    AMD Radeon Pro 5300M:

      Chipset Model: AMD Radeon Pro 5300M
      Type: GPU
      Bus: PCIe
      PCIe Lane Width: x16
      VRAM (Total): 4 GB
      Vendor: AMD (0x1002)
      Device ID: 0x7340
      Revision ID: 0x0043
      ROM Revision: 113-D3220E-190
      VBIOS Version: 113-D32207P1-020
      Option ROM Version: 113-D32207P1-020
      EFI Driver Version: 01.A1.190
      Automatic Graphics Switching: Supported
      gMux Version: 5.0.0
      Metal Family: Supported, Metal GPUFamily macOS 2
      Displays:
        Color LCD:
          Display Type: Built-In Retina LCD
          Resolution: 3072 x 1920 Retina
          Framebuffer Depth: 30-Bit Color (ARGB2101010)
          Main Display: Yes
          Mirror: Off
          Online: Yes
          Automatically Adjust Brightness: Yes
          Connection Type: Internal


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[pett]

Reported by Kirill Makukhin

[Tom Goddard]

I believe this is an Apple graphics driver bug specific to your MacBook Pro model. Selection highlight works fine in this exact ChimeraX daily build on my old MacBookPro10,1 with nvidia graphics with macOS 10.15.7.

Does ChimeraX 1.3 selection outlines work? I guess no version of ChimeraX will show selection outlines on your machine.

Apple updates graphics drivers with each macOS version. Maybe this bug is newly introduced in macOS 12.1.

[Tom Goddard]

Even though the selection does not highlight, the Actions menu and toolbar buttons will still operate on the selection. It is just the rendering that is broken due to a buggy graphics driver.

[Tom Goddard]

A trick that may make selection outlines work on your computer is to run this ChimeraX command

graphics quality colorDepth 16

This idea comes from another Mac selection outline bug report #4238. If that works for you, let me know and I can add you graphics card to a list of buggy graphics that will always use off-screen rendering which is what the above 16-bit color depth command does.

[info@…]

the "graphics quality colorDepth 16” trick works, thank you!

[pett]

You can get that command to be automatically executed at startup by using the UCSF ChimeraX→Preferences menu item, switching to the "Startup" tab, and entering the command in the list to execute at startup, then clicking "Save".

[Tom Goddard]

Thanks for testing. I put a fix into the ChimeraX daily build so it will use off-screen rendering for Mac AMD Radeon Pro 5300M graphics.

It turns out the new Mac computers with M1 CPU and GPU have had no graphics problems in ChimeraX, so I recommend those newer machines for using ChimeraX.

[info@…]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your quick and efficient support!

Kirill