<aol> Me too. </aol> I use coot quite a lot too.
In my case though, I don't have hardware rendering because I don't know how to enable it and can't be bothered to find out. It's fine as it it - spending more than 1000 GBP on a computer to run CCP4 and Coot seems excessive (I don't use stereo in any of its forms). Paul. On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +0100, Kevin Cowtan wrote: > More likely the issue is that some of us do not find stereo to be > necessary of beneficial for crystallographic model building. > > In which case, given the power of modern PCs and graphics cards, a basic > off-the-shelf PC costing $1000/?500 is completely adaquate for typical > structure solution and model building problems. > > I use coot a lot and I haven't even bothered installing the graphics > drivers for my graphics card. All the 3D stuff gets gone in software, > and most of the graphics hardware sits around doing nothing. If I needed > the performance, it would be a 5 minute job to install the drivers, but > I haven't needed it. > > Kevin > > P Hubbard wrote: > >I am sorry you are unhappy with the questions, David. > > > >As I am sure you know, I half-decent system with stereo graphics doesn't > >come cheap, and if you price things together to make something that > >performs well I doubt you'll get much change out of $2000. > > > >I am aware of other 3D systems (such as those listed on > >www.stereo3d.com). However, the price of peripherals like a 3D LCD > >monitor are prohibitively expensive (and the quality of the images is > >supposed to be poor). Do you know of a relatively inexpensive way of > >displaying 3D images on PCs? > > > >Any other comments would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Paul >
