Runtime exception in optix 6.0.0 sample code

Question

After downloading optix6.0.0 sdk and compiling the sample projects included, I encountered runtime exception when running any of the sample projects(e.g. optixHello, optixWhitted), with error message:

OptiX Error: 'NVRTC Compilation failed.                                                                                 
nvrtc: error: failed to load builtins for compute_30.'

My environment is: vs2015, cuda11.0.

Codes worked totally fine for ooptix sdk 7.0.0 (cmake, compile, runtime), and most of the pre-compiled sample projects .exe for sdk 6.0.0 worked fine.

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem with Optix 6.5, and I solved it using vc2017 with cuda 10.

The release notes linked from the NVIDIA developer forum suggests that Optix 6.5 works for up to cuda 10. The same appears to be true for Optix 6.0 from its release notes.