Can CUDA Run If I Ship Only NVIDIA Driver DLLs Without Installing the Full Driver?

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My app uses CUDA. If I ship my app with just the NVIDIA driver DLLs but do not actually install the full NVIDIA driver on the target machine (with NVIDIA GPU), will it still run?

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Hi there @hungdug2001 and welcome to the NVIDIA developer forums.

Short answer: Highly unlikely. The CUDA runtime is what your app will need, and that in turn requires a working GPU driver installation.

I don’t see a reason why you would want to run an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA software but not install the GPU driver.

But if there is, then I recommend asking in the CUDA forums. I took the liberty of moving your post to CUDA Setup & Installation for that purpose.

Thanks!