Anybody successfully updated CUDA driver on Mountain Lion with GTX 570 card?

[Eric Hansen]

I believe this is if you want to develop apps for CUDA. You just want to run CUDA.

The Apple support forums are terrible. I don’t think there’s a single Apple employee on there, and if there was, they wouldn’t give you advice about these cards as the Mac Pros didn’t ship with them.

e

Eric Hansen
Production Workflow Designer / Consultant / Colorist / DIT
https://www.erichansen.tv

[Juan Salvo]

No you don’t have to do any of those things.

Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author

https://JuanSalvo.com

[Juan Salvo]

Boy is that ever wrong. 😉 Here is the link. Hopefully this still works after all you’ve done. I honestly would just do a clean install if I were you.

Link:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-mac-driver.html

Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author

https://JuanSalvo.com

[Eric Hansen]

once you’ve installed this driver, all updates are handled in the CUDA preference pane in System Preferences.

everything you’ve gone through was to get the development tools installed for developing CUDA applications. you don’t need to do any of that. but since you might have mucked something up, you might need to do a clean install as Juan suggests

e

Eric Hansen
Production Workflow Designer / Consultant / Colorist / DIT
https://www.erichansen.tv

[Michael Holmes]

Eric,
So, could you please tell me exactly what you did?
Did you just download and install the CUDA Toolkit?
How did you verify that you were successful?

Thanks again for your help!

[Michael Holmes]

OK, sounds good.
The Terminal commands are a limited number and are easy to remove…..I am fairly familiar with Unix commands.
Xcode installation causes no problem, and I can remove it.
So, I can handle w/o clean install.

Thanks again for your help.
I obviously got down the wrong path, and you guys are the only ones to put me on the right path.
Yes, really amazing that someone at Apple forum couldn’t help…….I won’t be going back.

Thanks again!

[Juan Salvo]

They should really call the CUDA runtime something other than a driver, it’s kind of confusing.

I worry he might not realize something is mucked until down the line, that’s why I think best practice would be to just nuke and start again. Just my two cents though.

Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author

https://JuanSalvo.com

[Paul Jay]

I would advice this driver.
https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-304.00.05f02-driver.html

It’s newer than the built in 10.8 driver.

It’s running very stable with the GTX570

[Michael Holmes]

Thanks, Paul.

[Paul Jay]

If the built in driver is so magical then Nvidia would not update this driver for 10.8.2
https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-304.00.05f02-driver.html

This installer runs on 10.8.2. If this driver already was on the system , it wouldn’t install.

Install this CUDA driver with it and you’re good to go.
https://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-mac-driver.html

Now the card will work in DaVinci Resolve.
Premiere needs the hack. Just google it.