Could not load dynamic library 'cudart64_101.dll' on tensorflow CPU-only installation

Question

I just installed the latest version of Tensorflow via pip install tensorflow and whenever I run a program, I get the log message:

W tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:55] Could not load dynamic library 'cudart64_101.dll'; dlerror: cudart64_101.dll not found

Is this bad? How do I fix the error?

Answer 1

Tensorflow 2.1+

What's going on?

With the new Tensorflow 2.1 release , the default tensorflow pip package contains both CPU and GPU versions of TF. In previous TF versions, not finding the CUDA libraries would emit an error and raise an exception, while now the library dynamically searches for the correct CUDA version and, if it doesn't find it, emits the warning (The W in the beginning stands for warnings, errors have an E (or F for fatal errors) and falls back to CPU-only mode. In fact, this is also written in the log as an info message right after the warning (do note that if you have a higher minimum log level that the default, you might not see info messages). The full log is (emphasis mine):

2020-01-20 12:27:44.554767: W tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:55] Could not load dynamic library 'cudart64_101.dll'; dlerror: cudart64_101.dll not found

2020-01-20 12:27:44.554964: I tensorflow/stream_executor/cuda/cudart_stub.cc:29] Ignore above cudart dlerror if you do not have a GPU set up on your machine.

Should I worry? How do I fix it?

If you don't have a CUDA-enabled GPU on your machine, or if you don't care about not having GPU acceleration, no need to worry. If, on the other hand, you installed tensorflow and wanted GPU acceleration, check your CUDA installation (TF 2.1 requires CUDA 10.1 , not 10.2 or 10.0).

If you just want to get rid of the warning, you can adapt TF's logging level to suppress warnings, but that might be overkill, as it will silence all warnings.

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Tensorflow 1.X or 2.0:

Your CUDA setup is broken, ensure you have the correct version installed.

Answer 2

To install the prerequisites for GPU support in TensorFlow 2.1:

1. Install your latest GPU drivers.
2. Install CUDA 10.1 .
   • If the CUDA installer reports "you are installing an older driver version", you may wish to choose a custom installation and deselect some components. Indeed, note that software bundled with CUDA including GeForce Experience, PhysX, a Display Driver, and Visual Studio integration are not required by TensorFlow.
   • Also note that TensorFlow requires a specific version of the CUDA Toolkit unless you build from source; for TensorFlow 2.1 and 2.2, this is currently version 10.1.
3. Install cuDNN.
   1. Download cuDNN v7.6.4 for CUDA 10.1. This will require you to sign up to the NVIDIA Developer Program.
   2. Unzip to a suitable location and add the bin directory to your PATH.
4. Install tensorflow by pip install tensorflow .
5. You may need to restart your PC .

Answer 3

TensorFlow 2.3.0 works fine with CUDA 11. But you have to install tf-nightly-gpu (after you installed tensorflow and CUDA 11): https://pypi.org/project/tf-nightly-gpu/

Try:

pip install tf-nightly-gpu

Afterwards you'll get the message in your console:

I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:48] Successfully opened dynamic library cudart64_110.dll

Answer 4

I solved this another way. First of all I installed cuda 10.1 toolkit from this link

Where i selected installer type(exe(local)) and installed 10.1 in custom mode means (without visual studio integration, NVIDIA PhysX because previously I installed CUDA 10.2 so required dependencies were installed automatically)

After installation, From the Following Path (C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\\CUDA\\v10.1\\bin) , in my case, I copied 'cudart64_101.dll' file and pasted in (C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\\CUDA\\v10.2\\bin).

Then importing Tensorflow worked smoothly.

NB Sorry for Bad English

Answer 5

In a conda environment, this is what solved my problem (I was missing cudart64-100.dll :

1. Downloaded it from dll-files.com/CUDART64_100.DLL

2. Put it in my conda environment at C:\\Users\\<user>\\Anaconda3\\envs\\<env name>\\Library\\bin

That's all it took! You can double check if it's working:

import tensorflow as tf
tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')

Answer 6

In my case the tensorflow install was looking for cudart64_101.dll

The 101 part of cudart64_101 is the Cuda version - here 101 = 10.1

I had downloaded 11.x, so the version of cudart64 on my system was cudart64_110.dll

This is the wrong file!! cudart64_101.dll ≠ cudart64_110.dll

Solution

Download Cuda 10.1 from https://developer.nvidia.com/

Install (mine crashes with NSight Visual Studio Integration, so I switched that off)

When the install has finished you should have a Cuda 10.1 folder, and in the bin the dll the system was complaining about being missing

Check that the path to the 10.1 bin folder is registered as a system environmental variable, so it will be checked when loading the library

You may need a reboot if the path is not picked up by the system straight away

Answer 7

This answer might be helpful if you see above error but actually you have CUDA 10 installed:

pip install tensorflow-gpu==2.0.0

output:

I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cudart64_100.dll

which was the solution for me.

Answer 8

This solution worked for me :

I preinstalled the environnement with anaconda (here is the code)

conda create -n YOURENVNAME python=3.6 // 3.6> incompatible with keras
conda activate YOURENVNAME
conda install tensorflow-gpu
conda install -c anaconda keras
conda install -c anaconda scikit-learn
conda install matplotlib

but after I had still these warnings

2020-02-23 13:31:44.910213: W tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:55] Could not load dynamic library 'cudart64_101.dll'; dlerror: cudart64_101.dll not found

2020-02-23 13:31:44.925815: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cublas64_10.dll

2020-02-23 13:31:44.941384: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cufft64_10.dll

2020-02-23 13:31:44.947427: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library curand64_10.dll

2020-02-23 13:31:44.965893: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cusolver64_10.dll

2020-02-23 13:31:44.982990: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cusparse64_10.dll

2020-02-23 13:31:44.990036: W tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:55] Could not load dynamic library 'cudnn64_7.dll'; dlerror: cudnn64_7.dll not found

How I solved the first warning : I just download a zip file wich contained all the cudnn files (dll, etc) here : https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn

How I solved the second warning : I looked the last missing file (cudart64_101.dll) in my virtual env created by conda and I just copy/pasted it in the same lib folder than for the .dll cudnn

Answer 9

Tensorflow 2.1 works with Cuda 10.1.

If you want a quick hack:

• Just download cudart64_101.dll from here . Extract the zip file and copy the cudart64_101.dll to your CUDA bin directory

Else:

• Install Cuda 10.1

Answer 10

I installed cudatoolkit 11 and copy dll C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\\CUDA\\v11.1\\bin to C:\\Windows\\System32 . It fixed for PyCharm but not for Anaconda jupyter:

[name: "/device:CPU:0" device_type: "CPU" memory_limit: 268435456 locality { } incarnation: 6812190123916921346 , name: "/device:GPU:0" device_type: "GPU" memory_limit: 13429637120 locality { bus_id: 1
links { } } incarnation: 18025633343883307728 physical_device_desc: "device: 0, name: Quadro P5000, pci bus id: 0000:02:00.0, compute capability: 6.1" ]

Answer 11

Tensorflow gpu 2.2 and 2.3 nightly

(along CUDA Toolkit 11.0 RC)

To solve the same issue as OP, I just had to find cudart64_101.dll on my disk (in my case C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA Corporation\\NvStreamSrv ) and add it as variable environment (that is add value C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA\\Corporation\\NvStreamSrv)cudart64_101.dll to user's environment variable Path ).

Answer 12

This could be caused by the version of python you are running as well, I was using the python 3.7 from the microsoft store and I run into this error, switching to python 3.10 fixed it.

Answer 13

Was able to fix the issue by updating NVIDIA device drivers to the latest (v446.14). NVIDIA drivers download link here .

Answer 14

download CUDA Toolkit 11.0 RC

To solve the issue, I just find cudart64_101.dll on my disk ( C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA Corporation\\NvStreamSrv) and add it as variable environment that is add value (C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA\\Corporation\\NvStreamSrv)cudart64_101.dll to user's environment variable Path).

Answer 15

I ran into this problem when mixing pip & conda to get tensorflow 2.3 installed. (I used pip to install tensorflow 2.3 b/c at the time conda's install of tensorflow 2.3 was broken.)

I ended up with the incorrect versions of cudatoolkit and cudnn installed.

To solve the problem, I simply did conda install with specific versions of cudatoolkit and cuda specified.

Look at https://www.tensorflow.org/install/source_windows?force_isolation=true#tested_build_configurations for info on tensorflow, cudatoolkit, and cuda versions that should work together.

Answer 16

I don't know if this is optimal in the long run. But for me, only need to run the this project once, so this way is very fast.

Add the 2 lines below at the beginning of your code:

import os
os.environ['TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL'] = '2'

It's best to put it at the beginning of the code, I tried putting it after importing all the libraries, but it still says waiting.

I think I should still dig deeper into this error, it seems to be related to my computer, but I'm very busy right now:D lol

Answer 17

I had this error here with tensorboard, it happen after I update the GPU driver the thing is i was running tensorboard from the cmd where I didn't install any CUDA since I was using anaconda when you install TensorFlow using anaconda all the required cuda and cudnn are downloaded for you you will miss the files if you didn't use anaconda env where you install TensorFlow in it

Solution

* just open tensoboard from anaconda

1-or just download the last Cuda toolkit and add it to paths

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-archive

and use this 2- conda install -c anaconda cudatoolkit

3-then restart your pc

Answer 18

A simpler way would be to create a link called cudart64_101.dll to point to cudart64_102.dll . This is not very orthodox but since TensorFlow is looking for cudart64_101.dll exported symbols and the nvidia folks are not amateurs, they would most likely not remove symbols from 101 to 102. It works, based on this assumption (mileage may vary).