Installing CUDA Windows 10

Question

I am trying to install the CUDA toolkit in order to be able to use Thundersvm in my personal computer. However I keep getting the following message in the GUI installer: "You already have a newer version of the NVIDIA Frameview SDK installed"

I read in the CUDA forums that this most probably results from having installed Geforce Experience (which I have installed). So I tried removing it from the Programs and Features windows panel. However I still got the error, so my guess is that the "Nvidia Corporation" folder was not removed.

In the same question, they also suggested performing a custom install. However I could not find any information on how to do a custom install of the CUDA toolkit. I would really appreciate if someone could explain how to do this custom install or safely remove the previous drivers. I thought of using DDU but I read that sometimes it may actually lead to trouble.

Answer 1

I had the same problem while I was trying to get TensorFlow to use my NVIDIA GTX1070 GPU for calculations. Here's what allowed me to perform the CUDA Toolkit installation on my Windows 10 machine.

As the error message in the installer says - you already have a newer Frameview SDK installed. It was the case for me.

1. Go to Settings/Uninstall or modify programs.
2. Remove the NVIDIA Frameview program. It should be there with GeForce Experience, PhysX, etc.

Uninstalling only this NVIDIA program didn't cause any driver problems for my machine and I was able to progress through the CUDA Toolkit installation.