Imaqdx High Performance GigE Vision Driver

[ratus]

Hi,

I have a question regarding the High Performance GigE Vision Driver.
At the moment, I am using a the following Ethernet card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122133 with the High Performance GigE Vision Driver (at least this is what I can see in the properties of the card).
As the drivers are optimized for Intel Pro chipsets, I am wondering if it would make a difference if I would use this card : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106033.
For instance, would the CPU load be lower ?
Thanks
W.

[BlueCheese]

Hi W,

The second card you listed (the Intel one) should be supported by the NI High Performance Driver. This would lower the CPU load and decrease the latency slightly. The other one (the Netgear) would use the standard driver stack.

Eric

[ratus]

Thanks. But is it normal that I get this configuration for the Netgear one ?

[BlueCheese]

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@ratus wrote:

Thanks. But is it normal that I get this configuration for the Netgear one ?

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No, it is not. There is no way that Windows would normally let you associate the driver with the wrong hardware and even if you were to force it, it would come up with a yellow exclamation mark in device manager saying that the driver cannot start, as our driver would not be able to load on unrecognized hardware.

Is it possible you have an on-board Intel network card on your motherboard that is using the high-performance driver and the Netgear card is using the Aetheros driver (many of their cards use other companies' chips)?

Eric

[ratus]

Well, I do not think windows was swapping the Hardware....

[BlueCheese]

You could go to the "properties" panel for the device and then go to the "details" tab and select the "hardware IDs" property. If you attach a screenshoit of this it should show what the hardware is.

Eric

[ratus]

Here it is. Looks like there was no swap.

[BlueCheese]

ratus,

That device using the NI High Performance driver appears to be an Intel Pro/1000 PT card (single-port), which is supported by our driver. I don't see the NetGear card installed.

Eric