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Update Installation Page for Windows Requirements

Open kameko opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments
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Out of the box, Windows does not provide two things required by the CUDA feature flag:

  1. cl.exe being in PATH.
  2. An Nvidia driver up-to-date enough to allow querying for compute_cap.

The Installation Page should append a Windows-specific footer stating the user must add cl.exe to PATH by finding the folder cl.exe is in (usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.35.32215\bin\Hostx64\x64) and adding it to PATH (and restart the editor and any open terminals). Then it should direct the user to manually install Nvidia's latest drivers, as the one provided by Windows Update is severely out of date and doesn't allow querying for compute_cap.

kameko avatar Mar 23 '24 13:03 kameko