CUDA Toolkit Drivers

[Dash Lambda]

I'm thinking of installing the Cuda Toolkit (just installed a new OS), but I'm curious about the drivers it uses.

It put different drivers on my system last time I tried, but everything got screwed up because of the horrifically screwed up Visual Studio install I had, so I didn't really get to test anything.

 

So my question is this: Do they interfere with the GeForce drivers? Or, are they even different?

[trag1c]

I develop with CUDA 7.5? (whatever is most recent) and it uses the geforce drivers. Really all CUDA is just an API that allows for moving resources to and from the gpu and then creating a number of tasks to be processed. There are no special drivers for it.

 

BTW this is probably better posted in programming because very few people will actually know what the toolkit is.

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, trag1c said:

I develop with CUDA 7.5? (whatever is most recent) and it uses the geforce drivers. Really all CUDA is just an API that allows for moving resources to and from the gpu and then creating a number of tasks to be processed. There are no special drivers for it.

 

BTW this is probably better posted in programming because very few people will actually know what the toolkit is.

So what are the drivers it installs? Because so far I've installed it twice (the first was the one that failed because of VS, the second one was on a clean Win7 install after that which I didn't really use), and it's installed new drivers both times despite my having the latest GeForce drivers.

 

Hmmm... Good point, this probably fits better in programming... Not sure how to (if I can) move it, though...

[trag1c]

1 minute ago, Dash Lambda said:

So what are the drivers it installs? Because so far I've installed it twice (the first was the one that failed because of VS, the second one was on a clean Win7 install after that which I didn't really use), and it's installed new drivers both times despite my having the latest GeForce drivers.

 

Hmmm... Good point, this probably fits better in programming... Not sure how to (if I can) move it, though...

Forget what I said, Its been a while since I installed the toolkit. It does install a driver. But that is only for CUDA you would still need the geforce driver for games and such. 

 

On my development system (sig rig) I am currently running both the geforce  drivers and the CUDA driver that came with CUDA toolkit 7.5. It works flawlessly except for the fact that the CUDA toolkit doesn't support Visual Studio 2015. 

 

Unfortunately only mods can move topics.

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, trag1c said:

Forget what I said, Its been a while since I installed the toolkit. It does install a driver. But that is only for CUDA you would still need the geforce driver for games and such. 

 

On my development system (sig rig) I am currently running both the geforce  drivers and the CUDA driver that came with CUDA toolkit 7.5. It works flawlessly except for the fact that the CUDA toolkit doesn't support Visual Studio 2015. 

 

Unfortunately only mods can move topics.

It doesn't support VS 2015? That's... Weird...

The last time I installed it, it played fine with VS 2015- Granted I didn't use it too much, but it looked fine...

[trag1c]

7 minutes ago, Dash Lambda said:

It doesn't support VS 2015? That's... Weird...

The last time I installed it, it played fine with VS 2015- Granted I didn't use it too much, but it looked fine...

Nope. The highest version of VS that they support is 2013. In VS 2015 there is no CUDA compiler or CUDA project templates when the toolkit is installed.  

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, trag1c said:

Nope. The highest version of VS that they support is 2013. In VS 2015 there is no CUDA compiler or CUDA project templates when the toolkit is installed.  

Well, thanks for the warning. I was just about to install 2015 and... I'm sure you know how much of a pain in the ass VS is.

[trag1c]

2 hours ago, Dash Lambda said:

Well, thanks for the warning. I was just about to install 2015 and... I'm sure you know how much of a pain in the ass VS is.

Not a problem. It can be a pain in the ass sometimes but visual studio is still unsurpassed by any other IDE. I more so blame Nvidia for being slow to support the industry standard tool.