LabView installation after DAQ installation

[Vasilich2004]

Usually, I installed LabVIEW and then DAQ and additional software (DAQ, DAQmx, FieldPoint and so on). Then LabVIEW "sees" the software.

Now I have working system that uses DAQ, NI-FGEN. I would like to install LabVIEW and double test something.

Is there any way that I don't need to re-install additional software?

[SamboNI]

Hi Vasilich2,

If you would like to access the drivers from LabVIEW (via the functions palette), then you will need to reinstall these drivers (now that you have LabVIEW on the system), and ensure during the installation process that you have the option "Install LabVIEW Support" selected.

Our recommended installation order is to install LabVIEW first, then the instrument drivers. This way, the driver installation will put their files into the proper directories in the LabVIEW folder.

Best regards,

[Vasilich2004]

SamboNI hi,

Thank you for answer. You confirmed usual way. Please, look on my current situation ...

I have computer with 3 programs. One (first) program is old program that written on VB6.0. It is big and depends from a lot of libraries. I installed it couple time and each time I lost some hours As minimum, the program depends from PCI-5411, DAQ 7.3 (?), ..., NI-FGEN 2.3 . As minimum, another program depends from NI drivers too. And I, currently, haven't any idea about third program.

Now ...

I see some problems with first program vs PCI-5411. I don't like to debug in big old program and would like to use LabVIEW 8.2. Finally, I maybe separate DA&C part and write LabVIEW program.

So LabVIEW 8.2 works only with NI-FGEN 2.4.1 and other latest NI drivers. Can I installed LabVIEW 8.2 and all NI drivers above? Can you confirm that I will not have any trouble with pre-installed NI software and working programs?

...

Unfortunately, sometimes that is typical situation

[SamboNI]

Hi Vasilich,

Unfortunately, LabVIEW 8.20 needs DAQmx 8.3 or higher.

You didn't indicate for your old application whether the DAQ version your old VB app uses was Traditional or DAQmx. If it is traditional DAQ, then you can install that alongside DAQmx.

If not, DAQmx 7.3 might be similar enough to the current version to work.

However, you may need to rewrite the application if you want to use it on this same computer, as you can't have two versions of the same driver on a computer.