[Bug Report] [Error] [gpu.foundation.plugin] No device could be created

[marcelpatrick]

Isaac Sim Version 5.0.0

Operating System Ubuntu 22.04 / Windows 11

GPU Information

Model: RTX 4090

Driver Version: 581.57

Topic Description

1- Context:

I'm trying to install nvidia isaac lab. I'm following the tutorial: "installation using isaac sim pip package" https://isaac-sim.github.io/IsaacLab/main/source/setup/installation/pip_installation.html.

I created and activated the conda environment on a Ubuntu environment: "env_isaaclab". I decided to configure this environment to run python 3.11 to be able to run isaac sim 5.0 on it.

I installed pytorch 2.7

I installed isaac sim 5.0 with "pip install "isaacsim[all,extscache]==5.0.0" --extra-index-url https://pypi.nvidia.com/"

After installing isaac sim 5.0 I inputed the command "isaacsim" but it didn't open isaac sim, the ubuntu terminal just stood still after outputing warnings and errors and got stuck there. Here attached are the logs after trying to open isaac sim, in the file "error isaac sim installation"

Some of the main errors are:

[Error] [gpu.foundation.plugin] No device could be created. Some known system issues:
- The driver is not installed properly and requires a clean re-install.
- Your GPUs do not support RayTracing: DXR or Vulkan ray_tracing, or hardware is excluded due to performance.
- The driver cannot enumerate any GPU: driver, display, TCC mode or a docker issue. For Vulkan, test it with Vulkaninfo tool from Vulkan SDK, instead of nvidia-smi.
- For Ubuntu, it requires server-xorg-core 1.20.7+ and a display to work without --no-window.
- For Linux dockers, the setup is not complete. Install the latest driver, xServer and NVIDIA container runtime.

2025-10-17T12:08:36Z [2,293ms] [Warning] [gpu.foundation.plugin] nvidia-smi not found in '/usr/bin/'

My machine specs are in the file attached "machine specs"

2- Questions:

What is happening? Why it doesn't open isaac sim 5.0?

How to fix it?

Does it have to do with versioning (trying to run isaac sim 5.0 and python 3.11)? I already have installed isaac sim 4.1 and python 3.10 and it runs fine on my machine.

3- Alternatives

Is there an Nvidia driver with all dependencies and pre requisites already installed from which I can run isaac sim and isaac lab, so I don’t have to go through all this grueling version control and installation process?

error isaacsim installation.txt
machine specs.txt

[marcelpatrick]

error isaacsim isaaclab nov5th.txt

error isaacsim isaaclab nov5th.txt
[Error] [gpu.foundation.plugin] No device could be created:

I re-installed IsaacSim and IsaacLab and IsaacSim following this tutorial: "Using Isaac Lab with Isaac Sim 5.0 in a Conda Environment" #3021

But after I ran the project I ended up hitting the exact same error:

2025-11-05T13:18:40Z [2,202ms] [Error] [gpu.foundation.plugin] No device could be created. Some known system issues:
- The driver is not installed properly and requires a clean re-install.
- Your GPUs do not support RayTracing: DXR or Vulkan ray_tracing, or hardware is excluded due to performance.
- The driver cannot enumerate any GPU: driver, display, TCC mode or a docker issue. For Vulkan, test it with Vulkaninfo tool from Vulkan SDK, instead of nvidia-smi.
- For Ubuntu, it requires server-xorg-core 1.20.7+ and a display to work without --no-window.
- For Linux dockers, the setup is not complete. Install the latest driver, xServer and NVIDIA container runtime.

2025-11-05T13:18:40Z [2,202ms] [Error] [omni.gpu_foundation_factory.plugin] Failed to create any GPU devices, including an attempt with compatibility mode.

This is my driver information:

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Driver Version: 0             | Graphics API: Vulkan
|=============================================================================================|
| GPU | Name                             | Active | LDA | GPU Memory | Vendor-ID | LUID       |
|     |                                  |        |     |            | Device-ID | UUID       |
|     |                                  |        |     |            | Bus-ID    |            |
|=============================================================================================|
| OS: 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) ubuntu, Version: 22.04.5, Kernel: 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
| XServer Vendor: Microsoft Corporation, XServer Version: 12010000
| Processor: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900HX
| Cores: 16 | Logical Cores: 32
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Total Memory (MB): 15834 | Free Memory: 14962
| Total Page/Swap (MB): 4096 | Free Page/Swap: 4096
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

I'm running isaacsim and isaaclab from inside Ubuntu (WSL2) 22.04.5 LTS in my windows machine (with a RTX 4090 GPU)

Is this indicating that Isaac Sim, which is running inside my Ubuntu (WSL2) environment, cannot find or communicate with your NVIDIA GPU??

If so, why and how to fix it??

-> I have attached the full error log.

[marcelpatrick]

I tried this series of fixes making some progress but still hitting a critical error CUDA in a bad state:

1. The isaacsim Module Error

Previous Error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'isaacsim'

The Fix: terminal session didn't know where the Isaac Sim application was located. fixed this by running the official setup script from the correct directory. This script tells terminal all the paths it needs to find the Isaac Sim libraries.

The Commands:

cd /root/IsaacSim
source _build/linux-x86_64/release/setup_conda_env.sh

Result: This fixed the ModuleNotFoundError. Python could now find isaacsim,

2. The GPU Graphics (Vulkan) Error

Previous Error: [Error] [gpu.foundation.plugin] No device could be created. (vulkaninfo test confirmed this, showing deviceName = llvmpipe (your CPU) instead of your NVIDIA GPU.)

The Fix: Your Ubuntu graphics drivers (Mesa/Vulkan) were probably broken or outdated. They couldn't communicate with your main Windows NVIDIA driver. added a PPA to upgrade these specific graphics libraries.

The Commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/turtle
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Result: This fixed the graphics problem. vulkaninfo test now correctly shows your NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

3. The CUDA Toolkit Error

Error: [Warning] [gpu.foundation.plugin] Skipping NVIDIA GPU due CUDA being in bad state... (nvcc --version test confirmed this, failing with Command 'nvcc' not found.)

The Fix: system had the NVIDIA driver (nvidia-smi) but was missing the CUDA Toolkit. installed the official toolkit from NVIDIA's website: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads. the specific version for your machine, In my case, for WSL-Ubuntu:

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/wsl-ubuntu/x86_64/cuda-wsl-ubuntu.pin
sudo mv cuda-wsl-ubuntu.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/13.0.2/local_installers/cuda-repo-wsl-ubuntu-13-0-local_13.0.2-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-wsl-ubuntu-13-0-local_13.0.2-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-wsl-ubuntu-13-0-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-13-0

Did a full computer restart.

Remaining errors:

• however, even after all of this, I'm still hitting errors
• when I run my project from inside this conda environment in Ubuntu, it opens Isaacsim application, however, it doesn't run anything, just keeps there processing and throughs errors, notably:

2025-11-05T19:38:05Z [2,191ms] [Warning] [gpu.foundation.plugin] Skipping NVIDIA GPU due CUDA being in bad state: Microsoft Direct3D12 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU)
2025-11-05T19:38:05Z [2,191ms] [Warning] [gpu.foundation.plugin] Please restart your system if CUDA is known to work in your system.

[Error] [carb.graphics-vulkan.plugin] VK_EXT_memory_budget is not supported on this platform. Can't get the VRAM memory usage info

sh: 1: zenity: not found

Full error logs attached here:
error isaacsim isaaclab nov5th.txt