Avogadro minimum requirements

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Hi everyone,

I’m closing this (rather old…) bug report:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3458927&group_id=165310&atid=835077

and moving it to this list. Do we have any minimum specifications for
graphics hardware?

Dave

Original bug:

Hey

Names Peter, petevm@gmail.com. Just downloaded it for fun, cos I got a
degree in chemistry a million years ago.

On startup get message OpenGL error ‘Invalid OpenGL content. etc’. On
OK message MS Visual C++ runtime error ‘This application has requested
the runtime to terminate in an unusual way. etc’. On OK JIT debugger
error and close.

My video cards are fairly crap, my primary display is a SyncMaster
BX2031 on NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS with 512Mb, secondary is an LG L192
WS running on an Intel G33/G31 express with 384Mb which is integrated
on the m/board. Both are set to 1280x720 (32bit) (60Hz). OS is Win XP
SP3 with 2Gb ram.

I ran the Furmark 1.9.1 benchmark to see if there were any problems
with OpenGL, it was pretty pathetic.

SCORE:70 points (1 FPS, 60000 ms)
FPS: min:2, max:3, avg:1 - OPTIONS: DynBkg

So is there a minimum spec? I can see how I might not meet them, but I
didn’t even see them.

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and moving it to this list. Do we have any minimum specifications for
graphics hardware?

Not particularly, although <10 fps is going to be tough. What I’ve usually found on Windows is poor OpenGL performance is easily fixed with updated drivers.

Hope that helps,
-Geoff

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Yeah I installed it on even worse hardware running ubuntu 11.10 and it
worked out of the box.

PS could you edit my email address out of my original post please,
unbelievably stupid of me I know.

Thanks
Cheers

On 2012/02/18 07:58 PM, Geoff Hutchison wrote:

and moving it to this list. Do we have any minimum specifications for
graphics hardware?
Not particularly, although<10 fps is going to be tough. What I’ve usually found on Windows is poor OpenGL performance is easily fixed with updated drivers.

Hope that helps,
-Geoff

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Peter petevm@gmail.com wrote:

PS could you edit my email address out of my original post please

Hmm, I don’t see a way to edit the original text of a bug report on
SF. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Dave

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OK well never mind then, it’s been up for weeks without terribly much
going wrong.

Thanks
Cheers

On 2012/02/20 02:07 PM, David Lonie wrote:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Peterpetevm@gmail.com wrote:

PS could you edit my email address out of my original post please
Hmm, I don’t see a way to edit the original text of a bug report on
SF. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Dave