8800GTS 512MB and CUDA-which driver?

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Hello,

I just got my BFG 512MB 8800GTS today, installed the appropriate drivers, and boy was I happy to play Crysis on high settings!

Then I wanted to test out the CUDA programs that were working just fine on my 320MB 8800GTS which I had been using previously, but they weren’t working! It says “An unhandled win32 exception occurred in name.exe”

The sample executables found in bin/win32/Debug or release give the same error, and when I tried running a code that I wrote, it fails when I try to allocate device memory.

I downloaded the 169.09 beta, but it says it could not find any drivers that supported my hardware.

Thanks,
Joe

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The 169.09 beta didn’t support the 8800 GTS 512MB.
Download the new 169.21 to get support for the 8800 GTS 512 MB.

3

Thanks, for some reason I didn’t see that driver.

I installed the 169.21, but I’m still getting the same error when device memory allocation is done. Do I need to reinstall anything else?

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Are those programs compiled with CUDA 1.0? If so you should recompile with 1.1.

BTW, are samples from 1.1 SDK are working or not?

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I installed the 1.1 SDK and the toolkit like you suggested. After recompiling, everything seems to be working properly.

Thanks!