I only have AMD Radeon Settings Lite in my laptop - gpu

As I said in the subject, I only got AMD Radeon Settings Lite in my device. Which makes me wonder, isn't the Lite version only provides a certain amount of settings that you can tweak? When I go research on the internet on how to settings the graphic card for gaming, I've found out that my AMD Radeon Settings Lite have limited amount of setting that can be justified. Should I go download the non-Lite version online or what?

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Running JetRacer on the 2GB version of Nano with Waveshare JetRacer Pro AI Kit

I'm trying to run jetracer on the 2GB version of Jetson Nano along with Waveshare's JetRacer Pro AI Kit but all the release files listed in the docs are for the 4GB version. The Waveshare wiki also features files for the 4GB version only. I've seen someone mention there being a pre-built 2GB version for Waveshare cars available on the wiki alongside the 4GB version but it's not there anymore (he meant the AI Kit instead of Pro AI Kit I have but still, it's unavailable for either anymore).
Is there no way to run the AI capabilities for self driving RC cars on a 2GB jetson, then? I thought these were cross platform and worst case scenario, there'd be worse performance - but not impossibility to run it altogether. Would it make sense to flash the card by hand using Jetson's official docs and then trying to follow the Jetracer Setup Guide from step #2 instead? This seems to have a chance of working cause step #1 (the one with ready-baked files) is just an installation of Jetcard anyway so one should be able to bypass it by flashing the card yourself instead of using the provided image. At the same time, I contacted Waveshare's support and they just told me straight away that Jetracer and their kit won't work with a 2GB Jetson and that's that...
Is there a possibility to run Jetracer on a 2GB Jetson then?

Caffe and Tensorflow on a Dell 7559 with nvidia optimus technology

I bought a dell 7559 laptop for deep learning. I got ubuntu 16.04 installed on it but I am having trouble getting caffe and tensorflow on it. The laptop used Nvidia Optimus technology to switch between gpu and cpu to save battery usage. I checked the bios to see if I can set it to use only gpu but there is no option for it. Using bumblebee or nvidia-prime didnt work either. I now have ubuntu 16 with mate desktop environment it is preventing from getting the black screen but didnt help with the cuda issue. I was able to install the drivers and cuda but when I build caffe and tensorflow they fail saying that it didnt detect a gpu. And I wasnt able to install opengl. I tried using several versions of nvidia drivers but it didnt help. Any help would be great. thanks.
I think Bumblebee can enable you to run Caffe/Tensorflow in GPU mode. More generally, it also allows you to run other CUDA programs on a laptop with Optimus technology .
When you have installed Bumblebee correctly (tutorial: Bumblebee Wiki for Ubuntu ), you can invoke the Caffe binary by pepending optirun before the caffe binary. So it goes like the following:
optirun ../../caffe-master/build/tools/caffe train --solver=solver.prototxt
This works for the NVidia DIGITS server as well:
optirun ./digits-devserver
In addition, Bumblebee also works on my dual-graphics desktop PC (Intel HD 4600 + GTX 750 Ti) as well. The display on my PC is driven by the Intel HD 4600 through the HDMI port on the motherboard. The NVidia GTX 750 Ti is only used for CUDA programs.
In fact, for my desktop PC, the "nvidia-prime" (it's actually invoked through the command line program prime-select) is used to choose the GPU that drives the desktop. I have the integrated GPU connect to the display with the HDMI port and the NVidia GPU through a DisplayPort. Currently, the DisplayPort is inactive. The display signal comes from the HDMI port.
As far as I understand, PRIME does so by modifying /etc/X11/Xorg.conf to make either the Intel integrated GPU or the NVidia GPU the current display adapter available to X. I think the PRIME settings only makes sense when both GPUs are connected to some display, which means there need not be an Optimus link between the two GPUs like in a laptop (or, for a laptop with a Mux such as Dell Precision M4600, the Optimus is disabled in BIOS).
More information about the Display Mux and Optimus may be found here: Using the NVIDIA Driver with Optimus Laptops
Hope this helps!

OpenCL detection bug

I'm new to Adobe Premiere and GPU acceleration. I started to follow simple tutorial on editing video with Premiere Pro CC that I had "Stopped Working" error after seconds when I hovered on my video or dragged it. Found that problem is because of OpenCL. So I put my settings to "Software Only" to have just CPU rendering.
My hardware and software:
HP ProBook 450 G1
Microsoft Windows 8.1 X64
AMD Radeon 8600/8700M
14.12 AMD Catalyst Omega Software
Intel HD 4600
AMD APP SDK 2.9
Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
(For web developing. I'm not a CPP programmer.)
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
I used GPU-Z to have details about my AMD GPU and I saw that OpenCL is disabled and other one (Intel) is enabled.
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So I used /program files/adobe/adobe premiere pro cc/gpusniffer.exe and this is the output:
Found 2 devices supporting GPU computation.
OpenCL Device 0 -
Name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
Vendor: Intel
Capability: 1.2
Driver: 1.2
Total Video Memory: 1348MB
* Not enabled by default because it did not match the named list of cards.
OpenCL Device 1 -
Name: Oland
Vendor: AMD
Capability: 2
Driver: 1.2
Total Video Memory: 2048MB
I read all the docs of APP SDK but I didn't find anything except this one:
Output of /windows/system32/clinfo.exe
Compiler available: Yes
Execution capabilities:
Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes
Execute native function: No
Queue properties:
Out-of-Order: No
Profiling : Yes
Platform ID: 00007FFBA45D6B60
Name: Oland
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device OpenCL C version: OpenCL C 1.2
Driver version: 1642.5 (VM)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5)
What should I do in order to enable OpenCL in GPU-Z for my AMD Radeon GPU?
Thanks.
After two weeks Googling for my problem I found my answer in playing with regedit.
To have fun with OpenCL on Windows 8.1 and AMD Radeon we must do these:
Only use AMD Catalyst Control Center downloaded from AMD official website. (For me, installer downloaded from HP Support Center didn't work. I think because it didn't contains some packages.)
Download and install AMD APP SDK from AMD Developers official website.
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP SDK\2.9\bin. (It will be different based on your version.)
Copy and replace files from x86 folder (OpenCL.dll and amdocl.dll) to C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
Copy and replace files from x86_64 folder (OpenCL.dll and amdocl64.dll) to C:\Windows\System32.
Note: OpenCL.dll files are different with each other. Pay attention.
Open Start and type regedit in search or RUN.
Go to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors\.
Add amdocl64.dll as DWORD (32-bit) Value. (Do not edit it after creation!)
Navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors\.
Add amdocl.dll as DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Restart windows (Because of Catalyst) and start Catalyst.
In Premiere go to File -> Project Settings -> General -> Video Rendering and Playback and set Renderer to Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL).
Note: In Registry Editor, 0 means true (enabled) and 1 means false (disabled) for OpenCL.
Note: regedit must run as administrator.
Done! Adobe Premiere Pro CC works fast and fine. Note: GPU-Z will not show OpenCL enabled. I think because its old version.
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Using OpenCL in linux and IDEs

For using OpenCL in linux should I have NVIDIA GPU?
In my computer I have an Intel GPU and i3 Intel CPU supported SSE3 and SSE4, I want program whith OpenCL in windows can I use an other IDE than "Visual Studio" for example "Code Blocks"?
Thank you
You can use OpenCL with any GPU, as it can run on a CPU as well (that's one of the strong points of OpenCL vs CUDA and the like).
But if you want OpenCL to actually use your GPU and not (or not only) your CPU, you will have to have a driver for your GPU which supports OpenCL, e.g. AMD or NVIDIA. Intel also lists Intel HD and Intel Iris graphic chips as supported through their OpenCL SDK, but you should probably check what you're actually running on if you want to make sure (e.g. check at the start of your program - see Appendix A).
Also, OpenCL has NOTHING to do with CPU extensions like SSE (specific implementations may use SSE/AVX/whatever CPU extension for better performance, but OpenCL does not require any of those per se), or with the IDE you use, and only very little with operating system. So you're free to use whichever IDE you want to (at the end, the IDE is only the editor you write your code with). In the case of Visual Studio people often tend to mix IDE with compiler, as Visual Studio uses it's own compiler per default, but afaik even there you're free to change it to e.g. the mingw or cygwin provided compiler, or use the icc. (Feel free to correct me on the Visual Studio part as I've only tested it once before completely wiping it forever)
Appendix A: How to check which devices can be used by OpenCL on a given system http://dhruba.name/2012/08/14/opencl-cookbook-listing-all-devices-and-their-critical-attributes/

Can't enable virtualization

I'm trying to get my Android Emulator running faster,
but i can't enable virtualization. When i open
bios, it saids that it is enabled, but when i run Intel Processor Identification Utility, it display "Supporting advanced intel processor technologies: Intel(R) Virtualization Technology: no" . But when i look at the page about my processor on intels page, it saids that my processor supports virtualization
About my machine:
Dell Studio 1749
4 GB Ram
Intel Core i5-450M CPU (specifications)
Windows 8 64bit
Thank you all!
I found the solution!
In Windows 8 i need to disable Hyper-V.. I don't know why.
Hyper-V uses the VT resources and if they are already being used by another process then they will not be available for HAXM to use.