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🧠 Setup Guide for GPU/CUDA Support

1. Download and Install Windows Server 2022 EVAL


You can download Windows Server EVAL here.


2. Change Edition from EVAL to Datacenter & Activate


Go to the GitHub Windows Activation page here.



Use the option 'Change Windows Edition'.



Change the version to 'ServerDatacenter'.


3. Update Windows Server 2022 Datacenter


Update Windows.


4. Install NVIDIA Game Ready or Studio Driver


Go to the NVIDIA Driver download page here.



Find the driver for your GPU.



Install the NVIDIA Driver without the NVIDIA App and also without the NVIDIA Experience Desktop.



You can just use the default settings for the rest.


5. Download and Install Visual Studio Community with the '.NET Desktop Development' Workloads


Go to the Visual Studio download page here.



Select the '.NET Desktop Development' workload.



After the installation, you can just close Visual Studio.


6. Download and Install CUDA


Go to the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit download page here.



Install the CUDA Toolkit without the NVIDIA App and without NVIDIA Experience.


7. Download and Move the Files from the cuDNN Bin Folder


Go to the NVIDIA cuDNN download page here.



Unpack the cuDNN ZIP and move the files from the cudnn\bin folder into the 'C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.0\bin' bin folder.


8. Run XplicitRecAI and Check the App.log


Within the log file there should be an entry like 'CUDA provider successfully appended!'.