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NVIDIA CUDA Visual Profiler 
Windows XP and Vista Release Notes
Version 2.3
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PLEASE REFER EULA.txt FOR THE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR USING NVIDIA SOFTWARE.

Please refer Changelog.txt for changes with respect to the previous version.

FILES IN THE RELEASE:
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* cudaprof\bin\cudaprof.exe : CUDA Visual Profiler executable
                              for Windows XP and Vista

* cudaprof\bin\*.dll        : Qt DLLs

* cudaprof\projects         : Directory containing sample profiler projects

* cudaprof\doc              : Directory containing files for online help and 
                              user documentation.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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* CUDA compatible NVIDIA GPU Card
* NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit


INSTALLATION AND SETUP
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The installation is part of the CUDA toolkit installation. The files are
installed under "<CudaToolkitDir>\cudaprof" where <CudaToolkitDir> is the 
directory under which the CUDA Toolkit is installed.

If you do not have Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 installed you will need to
download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package.
The x86 version is available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en


RUNNING THE CUDA Visual Profiler
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From the Windows Start menu:
    Start->All Programs->NVIDIA Corporation->CUDA Toolkit->CUDA Visual Profiler->CUDA Visual Profiler

Refer the CUDA Visual Profiler cudaprof.html document for more information.


KNOWN ISSUES
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1) The CUDA Visual Profiler does not detect the CUDA version and 
   does not disable any incompatible features.

2) Currently there is no way to pass keyboard input to a console-based CUDA
   program which is run from the CUDA Visual Profiler. Therefore you must use 
   the command line  argument "--noprompt" to run most of the CUDA SDK 
   samples inside the CUDA Visual Profiler.

3) The old cached version of the help is shown if you have used help with a
   previous version of CUDA Visual Profiler. To workaround this issue you
   can delete files under the 
   "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\nvidia"
   directory.