I'm happy to announce that a LabVIEW install I started in 2007 has finished.

[Broken_Arrow]

It's getting ridiculous folks. I used to look forward to updates, and now I refuse to upgrade or have technicians do it.

[altenbach]

What version?

Curiously, I just switched to a different PC and installing 2020 was very quick and painless. Of course I am a "no drivers, just the math" person, so this is probably simpler than most. It also helped that this was on a fast PC with an SSD.

[Broken_Arrow]

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@altenbach wrote:

[...] no drivers [...]fast PC with an SSD.

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Ohhh man that'd be nice. DAQmx, Report Gen, Sync, Switch, Real-Time, MathScript (unsupported) and Model Interface Toolkit.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Broken_Arrow wrote:

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@altenbach wrote:

[...] no drivers [...]fast PC with an SSD.

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Ohhh man that'd be nice. DAQmx, Report Gen, Sync, Switch, Real-Time, MathScript (unsupported) and Model Interface Toolkit.

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My LabVIEW installs never take more then 30 min.

But, no drivers. Rarely DAQmx, sometimes VISA.

I bet RT support is a big one.

Last time I installed it (~10 years ago), it included PXI RT support and drivers for numerous FPGA board, including numerous FlexRIO drivers. Those should be pretty much duplicates with minor differences, but what do I know...

It wasn't just a few GB... More like a few 100 GB. 

[Darren]

My experience is that the cleaner the machine is, the faster the install goes. I just installed the entire LabVIEW 2025 Q1 Platform (all NI modules/toolkits) and all the NI Drivers, and it took about an hour. This was on a clean machine (granted, a fast machine with an SSD). When I say "clean", I mean a Windows 10 VM with absolutely nothing else installed.

Oh, and I guess I did deselect one thing in the NI installer... the Xilinx tools for LabVIEW FPGA take up a ton of space so I didn't install those. Oh, and I think I also disabled the virus scanner in the Windows Security settings to reduce file churn.

But if I were installing on a machine that already had a bunch of NI stuff installed I know it would take WAY longer. I have provided this feedback (slow installs on non-clean machines) to the NIPM team multiple times over the past few years.

[BigApple0]

Glad to hear your install finished.  Hopefully DAQmx versions exactly match between your host PC and real-time target otherwise you'll need to start all over again.

[Yamaeda]

Yeah, LV with some driver packages and AV active is easily a few/couple of hours.

Congrats btw! 🙂