I downloaded Cuda 2 beta last night. I installed the provided video driver, the toolkit and the SDK.
I tried to run the deviceQuery sample but, after putting the required DLL’s on the search path, I got an error code printed to the shell that said the application failed to initialise. (I’ll provide the error message when I get back to the machine later
today)
Undaunted I decided that I’d build that sample and debug to see what is causing the error return. As it turns out the error message in the subject line is as far as I got. I tried building other samples with the same error.
After some digging around I’m pretty sure that all x64 options are set properly, however, I’ve come to the conclusion that the output of the nvcc build step is producing a 32bit object file which the linker doesn’t like. I conclude this becuase the -ccbin path passed to nvcc is the one for the 32bit compiler? I tried reproducing the command line by passing “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\amd64” as the path to the compiler but nvcc didn’t like that.
What am I doing wrong? What little switch or option do I need to flip to make this all work? :blink:
Then there is something wrong with your CUDA installation. Try reinstalling the driver, that might help, because if none of the precompiled binaries work, you probably have a driver problem.
With that on board I went back to my last restore point before installing CUDA for the first time. I restored and reinstalled the driver then reinstalled CUDA and I’m happy to say that the apps have started to work. Don’t know what messed up the initial install???
One thing that’s curious is I have a pair of 8800GTX’s but device query reports 3 CUDA devices. I do have the two card SLI linked in case that has something to
do with it.
Now to figure out what the compiler issue is.
Thanks for the hint AND a big thanks to Microsoft for implementing restore points.
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA CUDA SDK\bin\win64\Release>deviceQuery.exe
There are 3 devices supporting CUDA
Device 0: “GeForce 8800 GTX”
Major revision number: 1
Minor revision number: 0
Total amount of global memory: 805306368 bytes
Number of multiprocessors: 16
Number of cores: 128
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 16384 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 8192
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per block: 512
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block: 512 x 512 x 64
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid: 65535 x 65535 x 1
Maximum memory pitch: 262144 bytes
Texture alignment: 256 bytes
Clock rate: 1.40 GHz
Concurrent copy and execution: No
Device 1: “GeForce 8800 GTX”
Major revision number: 1
Minor revision number: 0
Total amount of global memory: 805306368 bytes
Number of multiprocessors: 16
Number of cores: 128
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 16384 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 8192
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per block: 512
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block: 512 x 512 x 64
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid: 65535 x 65535 x 1
Maximum memory pitch: 262144 bytes
Texture alignment: 256 bytes
Clock rate: 1.40 GHz
Concurrent copy and execution: No
Device 2: “GeForce 8800 GTX”
Major revision number: 1
Minor revision number: 0
Total amount of global memory: 805306368 bytes
Number of multiprocessors: 16
Number of cores: 128
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 16384 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 8192
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per block: 512
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block: 512 x 512 x 64
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid: 65535 x 65535 x 1
Very strange. Reinstalling everything after the system restore fixed the build problems too! :o . I’m able to build the samples and step through them in the debugger.
