NI-DAQ 64-bit

[Mercury123]

My NI-DAQ C application that uses a 6602 timer has been working for years on a Win XP-32 box.  I would like to port the application to a 64-bit version of Windows without having to learn then new NI-DAQmx API. Is there any support for backward compatibility? I've read over the docs and have to say the clarity and quality of NI's documentation has really slipped. I see there is no support for NI-DAQ for 64-bit OS, what I'm asking is if there is some sort of "compatibility mode" for NI-DAQ API calls that I'm missing in the documentation.

Thanks

[BROhan]

Hi Mercury123,

As you mentioned in your post, there is no official support for NI-DAQ (Traditional DAQ) on 64-bit operating systems. Although this is not supported either, you could try to use Windows-on-Windows (WOW64) to use a 32-bit emulator on your 64-bit OS. However, you still may not get the entire functionality. I would definitely suggest upgrading to NI-DAQmx and learning to use its API.