The compatibility of labview2010 and Window11

[wayne044]

I bought a computer many years ago and there is an important application in my computer. And then, we use the software and hardware from National Instruments to activate the application. The software and hardware are labview2010 and NI cDAQ-9174 respectively. And now,I bought a new computer with Window11 and I want to continuous to use this application. By the way, the application show me that we must use labview2010 to activate it. Therefore, I download labview2010 from this Website. However, it can not activate my application successfully. In addition, I also see the table on the website and it show me that labview2010 is incompatible with Window11.

How can I solve this problem? thx

[GerdW]

Hi Wayne,

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@wayne044 wrote:

How can I solve this problem?

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Replicate the OS (and all its settings) of the old computer to the new computer…

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@wayne044 wrote:

there is an important application in my computer.

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When it is "important" (to you) then it should be important to also maintain the stuff needed to run that important application.

[rolfk]

LabVIEW in itself is seldom the problem. However DAQmx is using device driver components and there are many things that can and often go wrong there. DAQmx 9.9 seems to be the newest that can install support for LabVIEW 2010 and that predates Windows 11 for more than 10 years. Expecting a device driver developed 10 years before the release of a new OS to support that OS is about as realistic as expecting your car to fly to the moon, not entirely impossible but I would never bet on that happening.

So you need a recent DAQmx installation, and if your computer uses some very new CPU and according chipset hardware it would need to be a very recent DAQmx installation, since older versions of DAQmx can have trouble with the PCI features in the newest chipsets (Bluescreen of Death).

The only mid to long term solution is to bite the sour apple and upgrade your system to new versions that can run on your new hardware and OS. Anything else is going to cost you a multiple in the end. The short term solution would be to keep using the old system until it falls apart completely. And then scramble and try to come up with a plan D, because plan B and C was never planned for.