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NVIDIA CUDA Visual Profiler 
Windows XP and Vista Release Notes
Version 3.0
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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\bin\vcredist_x86.exe   : Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)
                                    distributed with Microsoft security update 971090 for 
                                    Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 : July 28, 2009

* 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 or Microsoft security update 971090 for 
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (July 28, 2009) installed you will need to install the 
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package by running vcredist_x86.exe available under 
the "<CudaToolkitDir>\cudaprof\bin" directory.

If the correct versions of Microsoft Visual C++ DLLs are not available when running Visual Profiler 
you will get the error:
"Application failed to start because side-by-side configuration is incorrect.".


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.