Does VISA still work on Win10 ?

[gdargaud]

Hello, hello,

I'm trying to get an old VISA for USB LabWindows program I wrote years ago to run on Win10. It worked fine on XP.

1st I had a lot of difficulty to install the generated .inf file as the file isn't signed and Win10 had me jump through hoops to install it.

But when I run viFindRsrc() nothing ever gets found, even with "?*"

The NI-VISA interactive control doesn't find anything either.

I've installed the latest version of VISA and everything else.

Am I missing something ?

Thanks

[cdiaz95]

Hi:

    Surely NI-VISA works for Windows 10 as you can check in the readme files for NI-VISA 17.0: 

http://download.ni.com/support/softlib//visa/NI-VISA/17.0/Windows/readme.html

    Also there you can check compatibility with versions of CVI (particularly 17.0 works with 2012, 2013 and 2015). 

    Another thing to check is if you need any driver for the instrument you are using (if it's third party) and also the compatibility between this driver and CVI and VISA.  Some instruments don't have drivers that are supported in CVI. 

Hope this helps a little. 

[gdargaud]

Well, in that case, the driver is my own, all I need is the .inf to install so I can then access the peripheral via read/write calls via VISA. But Win10 refuses to install even after jumping through hoops (booting in safe mode, etc)...

Actually, let me ammend that: on the page you provide, it DOES NOT say that VISA 17 is compatible with LabWindows 2017. So, does that mean it's not yet supported ?

[cdiaz95 · Accepted solution]

You're right, it is not yet supported. You could downgrade the CVI version to 2015.