Computer not detecting nvidia GPU

[oak dirge]

so i found an old laptop and it says it has a Nvidia GEForce 745M in it and i like to take advantage of the card. so i grabed my arch install which is on my 1TB drive and I used fastfetch to list out the specs and it seems to list the nvidia card just fine. however, blender, blender benchmark, and cemu emulator doesnt detect the GPU but detects the intergrated graphics. now mind i cannot test on the internal HDD that has windows 10 installed because it is EXTREMELY slow so im kind of stuck. any help? (ive installed propitiatory graphics btw)

[warped lynx]

blender needs a GPGPU api installed to be able to use gpu acceleration

in which for nvidia that would be cuda

and since the card is so old cuda has probably dropped support for it long ago

so you'll have ot either dig out an old version, manually install, and pray that it works

or use alternative benchmarking methods

idk about cemu

[oak dirge]

find an older version of blender or...?

[warped lynx]

no

find an old version of cuda

that still has support for 745M

[oak dirge]

where can i find that, i barely have any knowlage of nvidia

[warped lynx]

somewhere in their official website probably

just a heads up its gonna be tedious to setup

and likely will not work

and even if you do manage to install it correctly it might conflict with new versions of libraries you have

btw fyi i think even 1000 series support was dropped about a year ago

let alone 745M

[oak dirge]

ye

found a build that was in the release date of the 745

[young fjord]

.aw nvidia