Unable to install Nsight Tegra

Developer Tools Nsight Visual Studio Edition
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I am trying and failing to install Nsight Tegra (tegra-devpack-2.0-windows-2013-02-06-14961502.exe). When it fails it doesn’t seem to give any indication as to why.

Half way through the download I see a pop-up dialog titled “Windows Installer” which starts with “Windows Installer. V 5.0.7601.17512”. Clicking Ok on this dialog brings up an error message:

“Nsight Tregra installation failed, please check \nsight-tegra.log. You can send it to TegraDeveloperPack-Users@nvidia.com if you can not resolve it”. I emailed the this address a few days ago but am yet to hear back.

I actually see this repeated twice during the installation as the Windows Installer later appears followed by the same error message. Has anyone else seen this?

I am running Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) and have Visual Studio 2010 with Service Pack 1 installed. I have also tried this on two other machines with the same result. I believe they were running the same OS and VS 2010.

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I’m experiencing the same problem.
The download goes as expected but the installation cancels and refers to the log (nsight-tegra.log).

I’ve looked at it but couldn’t directly tell why it failed.
The last item that got processed by the installer was:
C:\NVPACK\android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-4.0.4\templates\strings.template

I’m running W8 64bit (even tried compatibility mode Windows7) using Visual Studio 2010 Professional with Service Pack 1 installed as well.

Thanks in progress

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I just installed it again yesterday with no issue. I’d disable any virus scanner or firewalls and then retry.

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I resolved my problem by extracting the tegra nsight & tegra profiler installer files from the download folder. At the end of the installation, it still gave me the following error messages (regardless of virus scanner/firewall checks):

“Nsight Tegra installation failed" → check log
“Tegra profiler installation failed" → check log

Manually installing both installers after the initial installation of the tegra-devpack did the trick.
Strange situation but it works.

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Someone else had the same problem and heard back to NVidia. They advised to manually install both installers as well. This worked for me. These are the instructions they sent:

  1. run the installer again
  2. select nsight tegra and tegra profiler only
  3. stop when “Download component” finished
  4. go to %installdir%/tadp_download
  5. run the two msi for nsight tegra and tegra profiler manually
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I am still unable to install the latest Nsight Tegra (NVIDIA_Nsight_Tegra_Release_1.1.1.13034.msi), no matter if the setup is started manually or through the Developer Pack.
The problem discussed in the thread “[Hint]Installation Problems (on Non-English Windows)” remains.
The NVIDIA Nsight Tegra Setup reports an error when applying security settings because Users is not a valid user group. I can’t just add groups and users to them since I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. And further more the language version is German.

What can be done in this case?
Does NVIDIA even want to fix this?

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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprosecurity/thread/babe4ace-36cc-4d13-8826-c0070045e46a
Olaf Engelke posted some commands you can run from the Command Prompt to create User groups in Windows 7 Home Premium. Maybe that’d work for you?

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NVIDIA_Nsight_Tegra_Release_1.1.1.13034.msi is a little old. you can try the latest one.