System Requirements and Installation for WWW-CrystPic
Recommended configuration for PC
- Minimal - (visualization of simple and middle complexity Models of crystal Structures or work only in polyhedra mode) - Pentium III/Celeron 700 MHz , VideoCard with RAM 4-8 Mb)
- Normal - Pentium IV/Celeron 1.4 GHz, Video Card with RAM 32 Mb and hardware support of OpenGL
- Optimal - Pentium IV more than 2 GHz, Video Card with > 64 Mb RAM (Nvidia or ATI recommended)
In all cases, of course, AMD processor-based PC will be work also
OS compatibility (tested yet):
- Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003
- Linux (different) with X-Windows (GNOME/KDE)
WWW-CrystPic (3D-applet) requires to install additional program components:
- SUN Java RunTime Environment (JRE) or SUN Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.4.2 and higher (Java 2) or 1.5 (Java 5 - recommended)
It is possible that they are already installed on your PC - look C:\Program Files\Java.
If there are folders with name similar "jre1.6.0_xx" or "jdk1.6.0_xx" (or analogue - for
"1.4, 1.5"), it means that SUN Java Virtual Machine is already installed on your PC and it is
possible pass to step 2.
If not - download distributive (about 16 Mb !) from
SUN website (Download JRE 5.0)
or from our site - jre-1.5.0.10 or
jre-6u3 now available.
After finishing of download close all applications and start this EXE file for SUN JVM installation (simplest way - with default options). Then you will find corresponding directories and files in folder C:\Program File\Java, which further it is necessary for JAR-files on step 2.
- JAR-files for Runtime Java Library. Transfer this ZIP-file (about 350 Kb) to your download area, extract JAR files and move them to C:\Program Files\Java\jreXXXX\lib\ext\ (or jdkXXXXX). Attention: If your have some Java installations, you must move this files to LATEST version.
- Windows DLLs for extending of OpenGL realization. Download this ZIP-file (450 Kb), extract DLL files and move them to C:\Windows\System32\
Restart your PC (better!), return into WWW-MINCRYST, find the necessary Card of Crystal Phase and in "Card Menu" click item WWW-CrystPic 3D-Applet will be load in new window (usually in Full Screen Mode, but it is dependable from kind of WWW browser).
Enjoy!!!
Important: if you not allow "Cookies" in your WWW browser or didn't visit WWW-Crystpic during long time, at first time you again come to WWW-Crystpic description page, but in this case you can use reference in right upper angle - "Load applet"
Any questions to: Dmitry Varlamov