Quadro M1000M

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I am getting crashes on my laptop when I have around 40 images or choose high detail on some projects with only 20 images. The error is related to the graphics cards driver crashing. What is a minimum approved driver? or a recommended driver version?

I have a Lenovo W520 workstation laptop which has a Quadro M1000M, I have made sure it is supported…

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus - lists it has support for Cuda 5.0
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-for … tions.html - I have the 2GB version of my card

Since my hardware comes from Lenovo they don’t allow me to update the driver easily. I have to wait for certified drivers from them. This is the latest driver from them, it doesn’t match easily the display driver number Nvidia usually uses, I have to install it first to see.

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product … s/DS014142

I am going to install it and cross my fingers it is supported by you guys.

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Hi Caron
When it is crashing, it could be because improper cooling of the GPU. Look if it does not need a bit of cleaning or additional cooling, as RC is a quite heavy user of GPU resources…

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I cleaned the fan and got my extra cooling stand out and it seems to work. My first test, running the ‘testset’ at high quality, didn’t crash. I will run my other projects…

Thanks!

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Spoke to soon, one of my existing projects with only 40 images seems to crash on normal quality. My current driver version is 353.82. I am going the route of updating drivers now…

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drivers updated, now at 354.45, and it still crashes…

Unknown error
CUDA : 30 : Error

Ideas?

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Ok, found this thread…

CUDA error

I will attempt some of the things suggested here.

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Hi Caron

Please take a look here: CUDA error

The main problem with LOW-end GPUs is that they have not been designed to withstand longer power-intensive task and when they overcome a certain temperature threshold, the GPU power-saving comes to work and the GPUs come out of frequency synchronization and get this sort of error.
Try the MSI afterburner settings to get better cooling and if that does not help, the other possibility is to get an external notebook cooling station to help overcome this…

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I post this in case it is of any help to others…

So MSIAfterburner won’t let me control my fan speed on my machine but it will let me control clock speed. So I tried underclocking and turning on my extra fan… no luck. I found TPFanControl which allowed me to crank up my fan speed and still… no luck. I lowered the clock speed as low as it would go… nope. But I raised it 100Mhz above the default and it works? I still cranked the fans but for some reason the higher clock speed works.