I have bought, downloaded and then installed uFlex for Unity. The install seemed to go without any errors, but when I try to run any of the example scenes I get lots of errors. The first and most serious sounding of which is:
DllNotFoundException: flexRelease_x64
uFlex.FlexSolver.Start () (at Assets/uFlex/Scripts/Solver/FlexSolver.cs:102)
Also the scenes don't seem to run/work. Have tried googling to see if it's a common error but that didn't show up anything. Tried finding the missing DLL but not sure where to put it, or whether it's platform/version specific?
Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this
Anyone else have similar issues?
Not sure if it's relevant but I'm running Unity Version 2017.2.ob11 Personal, and my OS is Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. I have windows installed as well - is switching to running Unity under Windows likely to help?
It won't and shouldn't work on Linux at this point.
Read the requirement from the plugin page:
NVidia GPU with at least CUDA 3.0 compute capability
Windows 64 bit (Win 32bit experimental, Android and Linux support planned)
The support is currently for Windows. You get the exception because the dll for Linux has not been provided. It can't load Windows dll on Linux. If the native side (C++) of the plugin is open-source, you can compile it for Linux and include it in your project then it should work. Since it's not, your only option at this moment is to switch to Windows.
My Bluestacsk2 installation does not pop-up after extracting. Just nothing happens after that window. I tried disabling antivirus programs and running it as administrator. My system fulfils the system requirements:
Windows 10 Pro, 4 GB Ram.
Version: BlueStacks2_native_8e68b6e001e5a05ff01c3f89c5790f9d
I also have the latest version of Directx and .NET framework. My graphic card is up to date and works very well.
This problem occurs only for the Bluestacks 2. I can setup the previous beta version. I tried both win7 and win10 versions for Bluestacks2 but they are not starting to install.
I figured out that I don't have enough space in C drive. But it was really annoying that Bluestacks does not warn me about this. I had several gigabytes in C, but I have been able to install it properly after I removed 10 gb of data from there. (I don't think you need to remove such big data)
I'd like to use SharpDX for the rendering Engine of a WPF project (Windows 7, 64 bit, DirectX10 / 11) but i'm running into problems getting the samples to work. I can use the DirectX 9 samples though. The problem is likely not directly related to SharpDX since i'm also seing similar problems with SlimDX and the other DirectX samples.
The only DirectX driver types that work when using Direct3D 10 / 11 are D3D_DRIVER_TYPE_REFERENCE and D3D_DRIVER_TYPE_WARP. D3D_DRIVER_TYPE_HARDWARE does not seem to be working. This does not only affect SharpDX, C++ samples also let me only choose between RFERENCE and WARP drivers.
My understanding is that those drivertypes are merely software rasterizers. Which implies that my directx installation is not working properly. But i don't see any errors, the latest drivers are installed and the system is reporting the DirectX 11 drivers and the Graphics adapter supports DirectX 11.
dxdiag is not reporting any errors
dxdiag confirms that DirectX 11 drivers are installed
I'm using a GT 460, which should support DirectX 11
System is Windows 7 (64bit) / VS2013
SharpDX is able to create the devices but as soon as a VertexShader is created or a SwapChain is set up i get DXGI_NOT_SUPPORTED or E_NOINTERFACE errors.
I already swapped Graphics cards from a Radeon HD 5450 to a Nvidia Geforce GT 460 to no avail. The sharpdx samples run fine on another computer with Windows 7 and Intel on board graphics. Can anyone give my an idea what is going on here? Why can i only use Warp and Reference drivers despite having a DirectX11 capable Graphics adapter?
Any help is greatly appreciated. The only references i found online to such an issue was someone running the IDE inside a VM that did not have proper 3d drivers.
I'm getting an error: "all cuda devices are used for display and cannot be used while debugging"
(Using Ubuntu)
Is there ANY way to use Nsight eclipse with only one GPU for debugging?
I have seen solutions like
"sudo service lightdm stop"
to kill X but that kills Nsight eclipse too so what's the point?
Update: Since it is not possible to debug with the same GPU that runs X, I have to ask: How does one go about using ANOTHER computer in his home network to "remotely" access Ubuntu in such a way that the X desktop rendering will be performed by the Guest computer while letting the host GPU run the debugger?
In general, it's not supported to debug on the same GPU that is hosting an X display. From the nsight getting started guide: "A GPU that is running X11 (on Linux) or Aqua (on Mac) cannot be used to debug a CUDA application and will be hidden from the application ran in the debugger. Such GPU can still be used for profiling GPU applications. "
I believe there is actually different behavior amongst different window managers, however. I have a laptop with Quadro1000M and RHEL 6.2 (with GNOME), with CUDA 5.0, and I am able to get into the debugger in nsight EE (Project...Build Project followed by Run...Debug). At that point I can step through and set breakpoints in host code. And if I run the code to completion I get proper output. However, you still can't debug device code. If you set a breakpoint in the device code (and hit that breakpoint), you will hang the X session.
EDIT: CUDA 5.5 and beyond now support the ability to debug on a single cc3.5 or higher GPU.
It seems that you can use CUDA 5.5 to debug CUDA programs in a machine with only one GPU.
See section 1.7.3.2. CUDA-GDB of CUDA_Toolkit_Release_Notes
Another approach which might work is to use the onboard video output for the display.
That way you use the onboard graphics for the display and the GPU for debugging.
For this you have to:
Go to BIOS and change the primary display adapter to "On-Board" (this varies from manufacturer to manufacturer)
Physically connect you display to the on-board display output feed
Restart and then run Nsight
If you are using a system with no on-board graphics, then you are out of luck!
This guy here has been able to get it up and running in Windows with Visual studio and Nsight plugin.
P.S. You would probably need to edit your xorg.conf to make X use onboard graphics instead of your Nvidia GPU.
It seems that the Windows Phone 7 SDK doesn't support running inside a VM. On Parallels, the entire VM simply crashes when the emulator is starting up.
Around the web, though, a few people have reported that they were able to use it by changing a lot of the VM settings.
What do I have to change to be able to run it? I'm specially interested in Parallels, but VMWare or any other simulator that run on OSX if fine for me!
The WinPhone7 (and WinPhone8) emulator is itself a VM and few (if any) general-purpose VM's will host another VM infrastructure, which is why it crashes Parallels etc.
If you want to have the emulator run from within a different VM to the one MS provides, then you're into the realm of extracting images, toggling bits and trying to tack it into your VM of choice. Of course, the chances of the emulator then working as expected with no residual issues is as close to nil as makes no difference ;)
[Update 2013-01-30] VMWare5 & Parallels Desktop 8 now support running Hyper-V guest VM's. This is particularly useful for those wanting to develop against the Windows Phone 8 SDK which runs Windows Phone 8 guest VM's on Hyper-V.
Here's a guide to how to run Visual Studio 2012 & Windows 8 SDK (inc. the Windows Phone 8 Hyper-V-based emulator) in VMWare5 or Parallels desktop 5: Link
Note: Running Windows & Hyper-V inside a VM will be slower than running natively. Dual-booting into Windows (using Boot Camp on OSX) is stil the recommended method of developing for the Windows platform, especially if you want to use Hyper-V guest VM's.
I'm working in VMware Fusion with Expression Blend 4 RC AND the emulator.
works like a charm!
As others have said, WP7 is itself a virtual machine. Even if you can get it to run inside a virtual machine like Parallels, the performance will be abysmal. If your computer supports hardware virtualization, the emulator runs really smooth, without it it's very very sluggish. Running it inside another VM will make it even more sluggish - I am guessing to the point that it's unusable.
I know this is not the answer you want to hear, but I would recommend running Windows in Bootcamp, you will have much better experience developing and emulating.
I'm not so sure about compatibility for long term development, but in last september, I remembering trying the Windows Phone 7.1beta SDK on VirtualBox (I'm using mac SL), a free virtual machine from oracle (previously by Sun) and it works well there.
I just do a regular install of Windows 7 Home Basic (any Win7 except Starter will do, CMIIW) in the VBox with no tweaking at all, install the GuestAddition inside win7 (provided by VBox), then install the SDK. I create new WP project, arrange UI, make some codes as usual, then run it in emulator. Surprisingly, the emulator works fairly well and showing the app I've developed.
I'm not even experience any lag (my macbook is i5, 4GB ram, the VBox setting is dual core, 2GB ram, note that no other heavy mac process is on the run, so I solely run the VBox ... and iTunes for listening musics).
So if you still want to try WP SDK 7.1 on VM, why don't you try VirtualBox? My current VBox is installed with Windows 8 and have no extra space to reinstall the win7+WPSDK. If you do give a try on VBox, please report the result here to inform everyone.
I've run the Android emulator inside a VM before. It was slower, but still usable to test basic apps. Also, the Android emulator was then slow to where you couldn't tell a difference from between native or from within running Eclipse from within a virtual machine running Linux
x86-to-x86 emulation tends to be pretty fast nowadays due to both Intel and AMD CPUs having hardware to help it along. A lot of x86-to-x86 emulation also doesn't do a full emulation (see Android's emulator to see how a full emulator runs in comparison). In the x86-to-x86 case, the faster ones will try to pass as many instructions to the host OS so that a chunk of the code runs natively
People have made claims like 80-95% performance, which is pretty good. If you have a 3.2 GHz CPU, you get knocked down to around a 2.4 GHz equivalent of your CPU. That's not bad at all, and I honestly don't notice that much overhead running in a good x86-to-x86 VM
The biggest reason why the WP emulator has problems with VMs doesn't have to deal with it being a VM-in-a-VM, but it's most likely that it requires DirectX 10. This might have to do with XNA, which is Microsoft's really nifty gaming API that lets you easily port between Windows, WP, and the Xbox 360. A lot of VM programs don't support hardware 3d acceleration
On another note: if you want to use a low-end system, AMD CPUs may fare better since AMD doesn't tend to disable hardware virtualization features in their lower-end CPUs
If you're deploying to a device, you should be able to use a VM, since it's the emulator that has issues being a VM itself.
We have successfully deployed, and performance is acceptable in our environment, virtual Windows 8.1 Pro Desktop under VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi 5.5), and have the Windows 8 SDK and Emulator working correctly with no performance issues. (In Education - to University Labs for Windows Phone development).
The issue experienced by most, is you most have the Hypervisor pass through the Intel-VT into the VM, to effecticely create Nested Hypervisors. This is possible using VMware vSphere 5.5.
This option is available in virtual machine version 10, enabled in the vSphere Web Client - Enable Hardware Virtualisation.