win pro, nvidia 1050ti - GUI does not launch

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win pro, nvidia 1050ti - GUI does not launch

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so here we go:

  1. I have successfully installed and ran on GPU with exact same hardware
  2. difference now is I went with win pro so I can RDP to the box without need of dedicated monitor/keyboard etc
  3. idea is it sits there crunching away and I can check on it via rdp from time to time

the issue:

  1. it wont launch when installed for GPU
  2. it launches and works fine when installed for CPU

I also have installed the latest VC++ as mentioned on another thread.
nvidia driver is 27.21.14.6109 (or 461 from nividia site)

Thinking it may have something to do with the RDP display adapter required when I do RDP, I also tried launching it direct with monitor but still no good... the bat window flashes right after I see the "setting to gpu backend" or something like that but no errors? just disappears and no joy.

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Re: win pro, nvidia 1050ti - GUI does not launch

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https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/c ... esktop/277

Put simply, RDP blocks use of the GPU for Cuda.

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Re: win pro, nvidia 1050ti - GUI does not launch

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Update:

The tech gods are smiling on me this morning. Its working with RDP with GPU backend.

Not sure why tbh.

Last 3 major steps I did last evening (but did not work... re-installed again this morning and its working)

  1. got vers 461 from nvidia
  2. installed VC++ redist
  3. performed "clean install" (uninstall pyth, delete folders in user profile, delete faceswap install folder, etc) for CPU backend

again, did nothing different this morning, other than got it to work under CPU then did a clean install again for GPU backend... and voila (using RDP now and its crunching faces as I post this).

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Glad it's working, know that the best recommendation seems to be to start the process that's going to use the GPU before you enable RDP.

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Re: win pro, nvidia 1050ti - GUI does not launch

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good point and noted, thanks!

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