Vaio Z CUDA Support

I'm using my Vaio Z running XP (VGZ-Z27GN 2.53GHz w/BluRay) to do a lot of video editing work. Among the applications I use, I edit with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress that takes advantage of the GeForce 9300M GS on the Vaio Z by using Nvidia's CUDA Technology for faster renders.

However, all application that can take advantage of CUDA always warn me that I do not have a compatible CUDA product. I confirmed with Nvidia that for sure the GeForce 9300M GS supports it:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9300m_gs_us.html

I tried both Sony official Nvidia drivers for the Z (which include the CUDA.dll files) and also the latest Official Nvidia Drivers with CUDA support (from laptopvideo2go w/ modified installation.inf)
www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html

No luck with any drivers. All works great as far as the display driver goes but CUDA support is always unavailable on any apps that can use it.

Is there a workaround on this or a patch required from Sony to enable CUDA on the Z?

Thanks in advance for any insight on this.

 

This is the worst part of Z.
Just wait........ for Sony.

 

Have you tried running the folding@home gpu client? If that does work, it means that the software you are not compatible with the particular gpu in your laptop in which case it's not really Sony's fault.

 

I just tried the folding@home gpu client and it runs on my Z under Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, with official Sony Win7 x64 drivers installed.

 

Did you upgrade to the latest Bios and graphic driver? After the upgrade, you should have CUDA support. The only limitation is that you cannot get double precision floating support.

 

Hi all
I have VGN-Z540 with nvidia geforce 9300M GS graphic card and forceware version 174.49.
I know that for CUDA installing I should have 190.xx for thin version but I don't know how I can upgrade to this version
Any body can help me?

 

What version of windows are you running?

 

Windows Vista Business
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I tried to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run package in Ubuntu 9.10 before trying to do that for windows, but after installation and running startx, some problems happend and I couldn't back to graphical desk top again
so I prefer to try my luck in windows (

 

for mine win7 with these driver can run CUDA perfectly
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNZ890&upd_id=5151&os_id=47

but the 9300m GPU is very slowwwwwww
now when convert file by tmpgenc i use only cpu like before.

 

Any body alse?
What should I do?
I went to
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNZ540&upd_id=3730&os_id=29
and installed it, but my forceware version is 174.49
I installed toolkit and SDK too, but when I run bandwidthTest.exe in cmd, this error happend:
"Running on ......
device 0: Device Emulation (CPU)
Quick Mode
Host to Device Bandwidth for Pageable memory
cudaSafeCall() Runtime API error in file (d:/bld_sdk10.pl/devtools/SDK10/CUDA_2.3/SDK10/Compute/C/src/bandwidthTest/bandwidthTest.cu), line 643 : no CUDA-capable device is available."

I think this error is for my version, plz help me, I really need to install CUDA on my lap top because of my BSc project!

 

Well first of all, I don't know about Vista. There were drivers from Nautis with support of CUDA, but it's some time ago already. I'm on Win7Pro x64 right now with official drivers from Sony - 187.35. These drivers support CUDA and it works well.



The problem is, that it doesn't support programs which use the latest CUDA 2.x SDK (e.g. CoreAVC 2.0, version 1.9.5 works well). For CUDA 2.0 version you would need Nvidia drivers 19x.xx, but there are no such drivers for our Z with hybrid functionality

 

That really sucks.. I paid a f****** lot of money for the Z(5) and think I have the f****** right to get the up-to-date drivers. It's the same with PhysX doesn't work too.

 

Physix support is in the hardware. Like I said in another thread, physix requires at least 16 shader cores, where the 9300m GS only has 8. Now CUDA on the other hand... Has anyone with a Z tried the Modded NVIDIA drivers? On every Z support page I see listed it's only the NVIDIA graphics drivers listed. The Intel GMA driver wouldn't be stuffed inside an NVIDIA installer would it?

 

I got PhysX working with some Sorg or Nautis drivers. It helped me running Mirror's Edge...

 

How do I install the Nautis drivers (and where can i find them) searched for a while with no result. Is there a how to, for putting the INF in????

 

Try here.

 

First is the download only possible with a premium account and second.... aren't these drivers outdated?

 

Yes, it does seem that the driver files have been removed... IDK?

 

All working Nautis drivers are older than the one from Sony. On the other hand they do support CUDA and PhysX The only way is to wait if Nautis will be so magnificent, that he'll make another set with 19x.xx Nvidia drivers

 

ah okay... do you know if sony plans to release any new drivers for our z's?

 

Well I would guess not

 

Thats kind of week.... but youre right, why care for customers.. we already bought their stuff... better catch new customers