AE CS6, ray tracing with K2100M on a precision M4800

Hello,
I work with after effects CS6, using a mobile workstation precision M4800 with QuadHD Display and a quadro card K2100M
The K200M GPU is supported for the acceleration of the ray-traced renderer, in K2100M I'm not sure.
in settings I get the following message:
GPU unavailable, incompatible devices or display driver.
I have installed the latest WHQL driver.
or do I need a special Cuda driver from nvidia like this one:
CUDA Downloads
The QHD display + of this precision is great and the i7-4930MX is strong enough, but ray tracing with GPU should be better.
Can someone help me?
I'm disappointed because I thought ray tracing with GPU works with a K2100M quadro card.
The K2100M is much faster than the K2000M and should work.
Best regards from Germany, Götz

Thank you very much!
"then you must install the CUDA driver. Simple as that."..........
I have the cuda driver already downloaded for windows 8.1
I have just reread this again, but I was not sure.
It's really easy when you get so a quick response from someone like you.
Tomorrow I will install the driver, but now I have to look at football,
Germany-Brazil
have a nice day

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