Can my laptop with the FX 360M run CUDA apps?

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I have a Dell Precision M4300 laptop with the Quadro FX 360M that should be able to run CUDA apps from what I have read.

However in my apps, when I make the call to cudaGetDeviceProperties, it always returns “Device Emulation (CPU)”, then it quickly crashes soon after I start making more CUDA calls. I checked, I am not using the -deviceemu option or linking in cufftemu. I installed the latest drivers from Dell, released on 12/9/2007. The driver details are:

Date: 11/16/2007
Version: 6.14.11.5683

I installed CUDA 1.1 x32 and Cg 2.0 x32. The Visual Studio 2005 project I am using in debug mode is an exact copy of one on my desktop machine which works correctly. The desktop machine (Dell dimension 9200) has the GeForce 8800GTX. I am using Cg 2.0 on the laptop successfully.

Can I run CUDA apps on my laptop? If so any insight as to what’s happening because all I did was install the latest driver, Cg, CUDA, and my project?

Thanks,

Aaron

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Check the CUDA website for drivers that have CUDA support. The version number you write here looks very different from the ones on the website.

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That’s 156.83 drivers (check last digits). This version is okay for CUDA 1.0 but 1.1 won’t work with them.

You need to install 169.x drivers to use CUDA 1.1. The only solution I know is to go to laptopvideo2go.com and get updated .inf which will let you install drivers.

BTW, this has been discussed on this forum more than once.

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Aaron,

Were you able to get this problem resolved with the correct driver?? If so, do you have any relative performance numbers comparing your laptop to the 8800 in the desktop?

I am interested in getting this same laptop with the FX 360M, so I was just curious…

Thanks,

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Yes I have it working now. I got the driver off of labtopvideo2go.com along with the modded INF file. I have not benchmarked it against the 8800. For my app, I am interfacing from MATLAB to it.

Regards,

Aaron