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NVIDIA CUDA Visual Profiler 
Windows XP and Vista Release Notes
Version 1.1
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PLEASE REFER EULA.txt FOR THE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR USING NVIDIA SOFTWARE.

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

* CudaVisualProfiler\bin\*.dll        : Qt DLLs

* CudaVisualProfiler\projects         : Directory containing sample 
                                        profiler projects

* CudaVisualProfiler\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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Extract all files from the release zip into a directory 
(referred to as <CudaVisualProfilerInstallDir>)

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 Windows Explorer run 
   "<CudaVisualProfilerInstallDir>\CudaVisualProfiler\bin\cudaprof.exe"

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


KNOWN ISSUES
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1) Note that timestamps and profiler counters are not supported in CUDA v1.0. 
   The CUDA Visual Profiler currenly 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) Note that timestamps and profiler counters are not working 
   on Windows Vista. Even if these options are selected no timestamp or
   profiler counter data is generated.