NI-DAQmx simulated instruments in LabVIEW 2009 causes Vista to crash

[jesses]

On a Vista Ultimate machine that successfully ran LV 8.6.1 and MAX I am having a lot trouble creating a simulated instrument using NI-DAQmx under MAX 4.6 with LV 2009.  When I try to create the simulated instrument, the program will just sit there until I get the message 'Program Not Responding' in the windows banner area.  At that point MAX crashes.  Moving the LV2009 installation to an XP machine I am able to create simulated instruments with no problems.  Is there a solution to this?  Right now I about ready to uninstall LV2009 and MAX 4.6 and reinstall LV8.6.1.

[balki]

What version of DAQmx are you using?  DAQmx currently has 2 releases that support LabVIEW 2009, DAQmx 8.9.5 and 9.0. If you upgrade an existing installation to 2009, you will have to upgrade your driver as well. What may not be apparent is that your upgrade to LabVIEW 200 most likely upgraded your version of MAX as well. The incompatibility between this new version of MAX and the installed version of DAQmx is what is most likely causing your problems.