Issue Installing NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.1.0.25002 and CUDA Toolkit

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Dear support team,

I am encountering issues while trying to install NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.1.0.25002. The installation hangs and ends with the following error message:

“NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.1.0.25002 Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified. To install this program at a later time, run Setup Wizard again. Click the Finish button to exit the Setup Wizard.”

I am in the process of installing the CUDA Toolkit (version 12.8), but the installation of Nsight Visual Studio Edition seems to block progress. Despite having the latest NVIDIA drivers and Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12.4 installed, the Nsight setup keeps failing.

Additionally, I have not been able to fully uninstall NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition, which is causing further issues with installing the CUDA Toolkit.

My system meets the following requirements:

  1. Visual Studio Build Tools 2022 LTSC version 17.12.5
  2. NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition (version 2025.1.0.25002)
  3. CUDA Toolkit version 12.8

What should I do to complete the installation correctly and install the necessary tools (Nsight, Visual Studio Build Tools, and CUDA Toolkit)? I have tried running the setup again, but I keep receiving the same error message. I also want to fully remove the existing installation of NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition to avoid further issues.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Kind regards,

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I have the exact same problem. I have VS2022 17.13.1 installed.

There seems to be a known issue similar to this: NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.1.0.25002 Setup stuck on "Configuring Visual Studio 2022 settings for Nsight Visual Studio Edition"

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Hi, @kesuOne and @infiniyou4ever

Sorry for the issue you met. This hang is due to an VS issue: Developer Community

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I had a similar issue using the combined installer for CUDA (cuda_12.8.0_571.96_windows.exe), but I never even got to the point where it displays the error message that you mentioned because the installer would just hang indefinitely as soon as it encountered anything Visual Studio related as described in these issues: CUDA Install hangs forever, Windows 10, GeForce 920m and NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.1.0.25002 Setup stuck on "Configuring Visual Studio 2022 settings for Nsight Visual Studio Edition".

I found a workaround as described below:

What worked for me?

  1. Run the Nvidia installer as per usual.

The installer hangs indefinitely at either “Nsight VSE” or “Visual Studio Integration”.

  1. After it has been hanging for a while (I gave it some extra time just to be sure it had actually done its Visual Studio thing), open Task Manager.

Visual Studio 2022 (Preview) with the VS logo will show up in the list of processes.

  1. Kill the VS process.

The Nvidia installer now finishes normally.

So far it seems that everything, including Visual Studio integration, works as without issues and that any VS settings have been updated correctly. At least, finally, I was able to build my C++/CUDA project after going through the procedure described above, whereas before doing so, it didn’t work.

Note: I was in the situation that I didn’t need Nsight or Nsight VSE right now, but I did however need the Visual Studio integration, so I tried all kinds of things, including choosing “Custom” install and deselecting Nsight, Nsight VSE, etc. This workaround may or may not work with Nsight, Nsight VSE and other components enabled in the install. We will find out…

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Our next CUDA release will work around this Visual studio issue. It will be released soon.

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The latest CUDA 12.8 Update 1 release has fixed the issue. Feel free to have a try !