Labview 2018 Device Drivers

[davidhi]

We have LabVIEW 2015 installed. I am upgrading to LabVIEW  2018. I went to the NI site and installed the 2018 32 bit. I received prompt to for the Device Driver disk; I skipped it since I do not have it. Which version should I install? Also, I have installed the NI-FGEN and NI-DAQmx - do those contain all the necessary device drivers so I can skip the separate Device Driver install?

[Bob_Schor]

If you went to the NI Site to download and install LabVIEW 2018, you should have also installed the NI Package Manager, which acts (among other things) as the LabVIEW Installer.  Find NIPM on your machine and run it again.  Go to install LabVIEW 2018 again (you should find the items you installed already checked).  At the bottom of the first page, add the Device Drivers that you want to install.  There really is no "Device Drivers DVD" anymore (at least, I haven's seen one for several years).  I'm not sure about FGEN, but in the Additional Items, DAQmx should come up (if it isn't already present).

Incidentally, if you open NIPM, you should also be able to get it to tell you what software it has installed, and to see if FGEN and/or DAQmx (and what Version) is present.

Bob Schor

[crossrulz]

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@Bob_Schor wrote:

Incidentally, if you open NIPM, you should also be able to get it to tell you what software it has installed, and to see if FGEN and/or DAQmx (and what Version) is present.

And also upgrade from a simple interface since there is an Updates tab.

For LabVIEW 2018, you can use anything starting in 18.0 through 20.0.  LabVIEW 2016 is about to lose support from "current" drivers with the 20.0 versions coming out supposedly in May (backwards compatibility for 3 years became NI's driver support standard for LabVIEW, DAQmx - LabVIEW Compatibility).