The current Chimera Aqua daily builds are much better and more stable than the older Aqua builds. We are getting reports that the new Aqua version is slower than the X11 version on Macs with Intel graphics, and comparable speeds on Macs with ATI or NVidia graphics. We are spending more time on the Aqua builds and hope to resolve that and other issues soon. With a little bit of luck, we will replace the Mac X11 version with the Aqua version by the next production release. And if not the next one, the one after that. So please try out a daily build at <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/alpha-downloads.html>, I think you will be pleasantly suprised. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Jean-Paul Armache wrote:
Hello,
I used Chimera Aqua some time ago, I tried it for two-three days on a Macbook Pro with Leopard (at that time 10.5.2). I have to say that it worked for five minutes at maximum before it crashed. The same situation with a new Mac Pro. Then I used a X11 version, which is more stable, but also has a tendency to crash (sporadically). The biggest trouble was to load more than 8 volumes. On a Mac it was extremely slow and usually crashing. On a similarly configured, but Linux-based machine there were no problems encountered and it was clearly much faster.
Good luck with it, thanks for all the effort!
Best regards,
Jean-Paul Armache _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users