I found the Windows Vista machines, one with NVIDIA graphics and one with AMD graphics. Turned on DEP for everything, and Chimera ran just fine. So it is unlikely that you are having a problem with DEP. The most common problem with Windows laptops is that the graphics driver needs to be updated. So please try updating your graphics driver first, and Chimera still doesn't work, use our online bug submission form: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/chimera_bug_report_2.py to report the bug. Please include the make and model number of the computer you are using. HTH, Greg On 01/23/2013 10:37 AM, Conrad Huang wrote:
Unfortunately, we do not have a Vista machine to test on anymore.
Have you tried running pythonw.exe directly (eg from a console window)? Chimera consists of two parts: a launcher (CHIMERA/bin/chimera.exe) and the Python interpreter (CHIMERA/bin/pythonw.exe). Double-clicking on the chimera icon runs the launcher which sets up some system parameters and then invokes the Python interpreter. I'm wondering which part is failing, the launcher or the interpreter.
Conrad
On 1/22/13 6:58 PM, Austin B. Yongye wrote:
Hi everyone, Any help running chimera-1.6.2-win32.exe or chimera-1.7-win32.exe on a vista laptop? Pythonw.exe always fails to run. I tried to include it in the list of programs that should not be checked by DEP:
Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Settings (in performance section) > Data Execution Prevention (tab)
But got this message: "This program must run with data execution protection(DEP) enabled. You cannot turn off DEP for this program."
Thanks for any suggestions, Austin-
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