Unable to install CUDA 5.0 in gtx 850m

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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Hello,

I’m trying to install CUDA on my laptop’s GeForce GTX 850m(installed driver: 398.36) and can’t manage to do it.

I’m new to this and it can be very simple. I’m getting the error while running the nbody_vs2010.sln

“C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\CUDA Samples\v5.0\5_Simulations\nbody\nbody_vs2010.vcxproj : error : Unable to read the project file “nbody_vs2010.vcxproj”.
C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\CUDA Samples\v5.0\5_Simulations\nbody\nbody_vs2010.vcxproj(234,5): The imported project “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\v110\BuildCustomizations\CUDA 5.0.targets” was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.”

A few things to be noted:
I’m using VS2012, because VS2010 says the files were made in a more recent version.
I’m getting the .targets error but I was getting the .props until I found it hanging somewhere in my pc and copied.
I tried reinstalling CUDA and all kinds of Visual Studio over and over again to no luck.

The purpose of the installation is for Electrical Engineering real time simulations, so I need a nice computer power and I want to test GPU.

I’m running Windows 10-64bits even if the software compatibility is for Win 8 tops. I can’t afford to downgrade.
My processor, if its necessary, is a i7-4810MQ.

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I don’t think you’ll be able to read a vs2010 project or solution file into vs2012. I’m not sure why you would want to install such an old CUDA version (5.0).

3

Well, the compatibility table says 5.0 is the one I should use… Or did I read it wrong and its 5.0 or newer?
I’ll give it a try.

4

You read it wrong. The “compatibility table” is actual a table of CUDA compute capability. That is not the same as compatibility with a particular CUDA version.

CUDA 9.x supports GPUs of compute capability 3.0 and higher.

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I manage to install but I was sick. I’ll give a try today and see if the matter is solved.

This also means I can try using VS2017. I’ll test that too.