Isaac Sim Version
5.1.0
5.0.0
4.5.0
4.2.0
4.1.0
4.0.0
4.5.0
2023.1.1
2023.1.0-hotfix.1
Other (please specify): I‘ve tried 5.0.0 and 4.0.0, both leading to the same problem seemingly about not detecting usable GPU.
Operating System
Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Windows 11
Windows 10
Other (please specify): WSL2 with Ubuntu 24.04, host is Windows 11
GPU Information
- Model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- Driver Version: 581.29
Topic Description
Can’t run Isaac Sim properly in WSL, this message keeps repeating:
[Warning] [omni.graph.core.plugin] OmniGraphSettings::getCudaDeviceOrdinal: unable to get a valid CUDA device id from the renderer. Defaulting to GPU0.
Detailed Description
Steps to Reproduce
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I used the docker container nvcr.io/nvidia/isaac-sim:4.0.0
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run isaac sim app
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after the output
app ready, it’s just this message repeating and no other output
Error Messages
[Warning] [omni.graph.core.plugin] OmniGraphSettings::getCudaDeviceOrdinal: unable to get a valid CUDA device id from the renderer. Defaulting to GPU0.
Screenshots or Videos
Additional Information
Here is the nvidia-smi and nvcc --version output in WSL (more specifically in the docker container):
(py10) root@91dd4dc55a75:/isaac-sim/src# nvidia-smi
Thu Oct 30 08:18:15 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.82.10 Driver Version: 581.29 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | Off |
| 34% 41C P0 58W / 450W | 3172MiB / 24564MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 39 G /Xwayland N/A |
| 0 N/A N/A 468 G /Xwayland N/A |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
(py10) root@91dd4dc55a75:/isaac-sim/src# nvcc -v
nvcc fatal : No input files specified; use option --help for more information
(py10) root@91dd4dc55a75:/isaac-sim/src# nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2022 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_Sep_21_10:33:58_PDT_2022
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.8, V11.8.89
Build cuda_11.8.r11.8/compiler.31833905_0
What I’ve Tried
I’ve tried to reinstall the nvidia driver based on the suggested driver version in the isaac sim doc. It seemed that you can’t install nvidia drivers directly inside WSL, instead you should just install Windows drivers. I tried a few different driver versions and they all didn’t work. I don’t think the CUDA Toolkit version matters.
Thank you!