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From: Josh Vermaas (joshua.vermaas_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 09 2020 - 16:23:38 CDT

Hi Alex,

The windows builds will work, they just will crash if you try to load more
trajectory/data than ~2GB. 64-bit processors can run 32-bit applications,
but not the other way around.

-Josh

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 3:18 PM Alex Hummels <alexhummels_at_me.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I was looking into potentially installing VMD on a Windows laptop with a
> 64-bit operating system and x64-based processor. However, looking at the
> VMD website I see that 1.9.3 explicitly mentions 32-bit processor
> compatibility for Windows. I had only heard of issues with putting VMD on
> Macs with Catalina for this reason - would I not be able to install VMD on
> this Windows machine as well? I just wanted to ask and be sure before I
> download something that may not work in the first place.
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
>