BasicSR Installation Guide for Windows

We will install some tools first to make installing the dependencies, BasicSR and ESRGAN itself easier.

Disclaimer

This Guide is currently in Alpha, use it at your own risk!

Before you start with this guide, make sure that you have 'nothing from NVIDIA installed'.

Before you start with this guide, make sure that you have 'no Python, Anaconda, Miniconda, (other Python distribution) installed'.

If you have something from Nvidia installed or an existing Python installation, uninstall them first in the Windows Control pannel. To check that there really is no Python installation left, open a CMD window and type python if nothing happens you are good to go.

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, you can also install all of the programs we will install with it in the future manually, if you want to do so, skip those steps.

Chocolatey

1. Open a PowerShell window as an admin. (On Windows 10 rightclick the start symbol (four squares) then select Windows PowerShell (Admin))
2. Enter: Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned
3. Enter: Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
4. Close PowerShell (!This is important!)
5. Reopen PowerShell as an admin.

Nvidia Driver

1. Enter: choco install nvidia-display-driver

CUDA

1. Enter: choco install cuda

Python

1. Enter: choco install python3 --params "/InstallDir:C:\Python3"

If you want to install Python in another location you can just modify the path to whatever you want.

Git (Bash)

1. Enter: choco install git --params "/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /NoGuiHereIntegration"

/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath will add many Unix tools to your path, optional

/NoGuiHereIntegration Personally I don't like the GUI that comes with Git, I recommend to use any other instead this switch will remove the Git GUI entry from the windows explorer context menu.

Python Dependencies

Pytorch

1. • If you have a Nvidia graphic card enter the following command in the cmd and press enter:

     pip install torch==1.2.0 torchvision==0.4.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html

   • If you have an AMD / Intel graphic card enter the following command in the cmd and press enter:

     pip install torch==1.2.0+cpu torchvision==0.4.0+cpu -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html

   • If the command won’t work for you, please report it. In the meantime, you can get an up to date version here on the Pytorch Website. Select Stable, Windows, Pip, your Python version and your CUDA version (should be the newest) or None for AMD / Intel users.

OpenCV-Python

1. Enter: pip install opencv-python