Recently installed Cuda Toolkit 9.2 and without paying careful attention that Tensorflow only supports 9.x (which is a bummer). Tried a few times uninstalling it using "Programs and Features" but nothing seems to occur. Exploring NVIDIA developer community did do any good.
Does anyone have a success story on this?
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I was installing CUDA toolkit and cuDNN for deep learning.
I downloaded the cuDNN libs, downloaded the CUDA toolkit and while installing the toolkit I get this,
And I never downloaded this, it's always been there.
Then I searched a bit about this and some guy said that we have to uninstall.
This is from my control panel,
So is it safe to uninstall these programs? And is this how to actually do it too?
It seems you previously installed higher versions of CUDA - maybe partially -
Try installing CUDA 11.4 instead.
Even if you want to use CUDA 11.2, uninstalling the above two components will not be a problem, as older versions will be installed instead.
I have recently installed cuda 6.0 with a view of performance increment in windows 7 . the toolkit installer has display driver installer along with it and it installed display driver version named as 9.18.13.4062 . is this version mean 340.62???
Also it is mentioned that driver version 340.29 with cuda increases performance according to this link
does 340.xx series have the same performance ?? I couldnot get the version 340.29 driver. where can i download it from???
340.62 is the Windows GPU driver that ships with the CUDA 6.5 (windows) installer.
340.29 is the Linux GPU driver that ships with the CUDA 6.5 (linux) installer.
The link you have provided is referring to linux. 340.62 and 340.29 should be comparable, as much as "comparable" can be stated about a windows platform vs. a linux platform
Regarding the performance in the article linked, CUDA 6.5 (i.e. not just the driver) has significant performance increases in various libraries and in the compiler as well.
To get an idea of these performance increases, there is a webinar you can attend tomorrow (wednesday, September 17th) by following the link here.
I have the Nvidia Quadro NVS4200M along with Intel Integrated Graphics (on my laptop). I can't seem to get the CUDA 5.0 toolkit installation to succeed.
I am running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 64-bit. I tried the 64-bit desktop & notebook installers and the 32-bit installers.
All of them seem to fail with the error message "Display Driver failed installation". I installed the latest drivers from here, and it is supposed to support CUDA-5.0, and despite that, the installation fails.
After failure, the libraries and binaries are present, but NSight Eclipse (which seems to have no standalone installation link) isn't installed. What could be the possible issue?
I'm not sure why the driver install failed in your case, but if you
have a "recent" driver installed, it's not necessary to use the
driver that comes with the cuda installer. The cuda installer
offers individual options to install the toolkit (required), samples
(optional), and driver (required only if you have an older driver),
so you can just select "no" when prompted for the driver install, to
avoid this, assuming you have a recent driver or installed one such
as the 307.45 driver.
You should always use a 64 bit installer if you have a 64 bit OS.
The only officially supported C/C++ compiler for windows is cl.exe, the microsoft compiler that ships with either Microsoft Visual Studio (the Express edition will do, it is free), or the Windows SDK (for command line use only). You're free to experiment with other stuff, but your mileage may vary. MS VS 2010 (and 2008) are the easiest to use. MS VS 2012 can be made to work but may require extra steps.
I recommend installing cuda after installing Microsoft Visual Studio. This is because the cuda installer should automatically find your VS installation and update some important files to make building cuda projects easier.
nsight Eclipse Edition is a linux-only tool (or mac). It is not for windows use, and will not be installed by the windows cuda installers. nsight EE provides an environment for code building, debugging, and profiling. In windows, the corresponding operations can be done via MS VS IDE for code building, the standalone visual profiler for profiling, and using a separate plug-in, nsight visual studio edition, for debugging and profiling within visual studio. Due to the way visual studio is constructed, nsight visual studio edition will not work with the free versions of visual studio. nsight visual studio has it's own separate installer.
The windows getting started guide may also be of interest.
I have a Dell XPS L502 with the Nvidia 525M graphics card. I am only interested in using the gpgpu capabilities of the card for now.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a dual boot with the Windows 7 that came with the machine and followed several installation procedures for installing the CUDA driver and developer kit from Nvidia ( many re-installs of Ubuntu ). In all cases the display drops to 640x480 resolution. Best I can determine this has something to do with Optimus technology and Linux. I tried Bumblebee to no avail.
I really don't care about using the NVidia card to drive the display. Is there any way that I can just install the NVidia drivers so that a program can use the CUDA capabilities of the graphics card and I still get the full resolution on the display?
I had a similar issue with my Alienware M11xR2, and posted the solution on the NVIDIA Forums. Unfortunately the forums are down at the moment but essentially the process is as follows:
Install the Nvidia Drivers, but when prompted to modify your X11 Config, select 'No'. This is because the Nvidia card cannot be used as a display device.
Install the CUDA SDK and run one of the samples as root. I found this to be a necessary step. After this you should be able to execute further CUDA programs as a normal user.
Hope that helps.
With the new release of CUDA 5 the, comes the installation guide, there you have just one file that installs drivers, toolkit and sdk (even nvidia nsight). And one thing that got my attention is that you also have optimus options in the installation process.
I also have and Alienware M14x, and i understand your problem, but i also wanted the drivers to work for me, so i didn't try too hard on that.
Maybe you could give that a try and comment with the rest of us.
Here you can look for the CUDA 5 release candidate: CUDA 5
and here is the installation guide (maybe give this a read first): CUDA 5 Starting Guide for Linux.
So I have successfully installed the CUDA toolkit and GPU computing SDK on a Mac Pro running OS X version 10.6.6. The sample CUDA programs provided with the SDK as well as some programs of my own work well. However, when I run any of these CUDA programs through the NVIDIA Visual Profiler (the executable is called computeprof), I always get the following error upon launch:
"Unable to initialize the Profiling in Start/Stop mode"
NVIDIA's documentation does not mention this error, and Googling shows a single post in the NVIDIA forums in which several people have run into this problem recently (since October 2010) but no solutions.
Any information on this error message would be greatly appreciated.
If Visual Profiler v4.0 isn't working for you, there's a new CUDA release out (v4.1) and it includes a completely new & re-designed Visual Profiler.
The new NVIDIA Visual Profiler (v4.1) supports automated performance analysis to identify performance improvement opportunities in your application. It also links directly to the most useful sections of the Best Practices Guide for the issues it detects. And the Visual Profiler is available for free as part of the CUDA Toolkit on NVIDIA's developer web site: http://www.nvidia.com/getcuda.
If you experience any problems, please file a bug via your (free) NVIDIA registered developer account so the team working on the Visual Profiler can figure out the problem.
Are you using CUDA4.0?
I had problem with CUDA 4.0 and visual profiler (I use a Linux system). But it works fine with CUDA 3.2.