On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Ricardo Jos� Soares Torquato wrote:
Dear friends I got chimera program from website, and install on my notebook, and installed the last realese of windows version, my machine has a turion64 as a processor and WinXP pro as OS, but after the installation I try to run it, I got this message: ! Outline highlight not supported by hadware, in small windows. Can you help? thank's Ricardo
This warning means that your (OpenGL) graphics driver is buggy, but chimera may still work. The default highlighting mode is automatically changed to fill mode instead of outline mode. To get rid of the warning, you need to either (1) change the Display Properties so that the "Color quality" is "Highest (32-bit)" instead of "Medium (16-bit)", or (2) update your graphics driver, see <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/graphics/graphicsbugs.html>. Unfortunately for laptops, updating the graphics driver can be difficult because laptop vendors frequently alter the graphics driver for the laptop and only do those alterations again once or twice after the laptop is released. However, recent ATI Mobility Radeon systems are generally updatable, as are recent NVidia Quadro FX Mobile systems -- make sure to check before you buy. If you are willing to give up your laptop vendor's modifications to the graphics driver (e.g., power saving modes, maybe other stuff), you can often get a newer graphics driver from the chipset manufacturer. This is especially important for Intel and SiS graphics. In fact, for chimera, we recommend upgrading your Intel or SiS graphics driver to the latest one available (this is true for desktop systems too). Good luck, Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab