NI Vision Development Module and Vision Acquisition Software 64-bit Programming Language Support

Updated Feb 4, 2020

Overview

This page shows supported versions of NI Vision Development Module and Vision Acquisition Software 64-bit Programming Language. Reference this information to ensure you install the correct versions of your development environment, toolkit or module, and drivers during installation or setup, or when upgrading or updating your system or software. Using incompatible versions may result in errors, or missing palettes or functions.

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NI Vision Development Module and Vision Acquisition Software 64-bit Programming Language Support

Use this table to compare the current support for VDM and VAS drivers when working with a 64 bit development environment.
Development Environment	VDM / VAS Driver
Development Environment	VDM	NI-IMAQdx	NI-IMAQ	NI-IMAQ I/O
Labview	2009	3.4 (VAS August 2009)	4.3 (VAS August 2009)	2.6.1 (VAS February 2013)
LabWindows CVI	2015 SP1	15.5 (VAS February 2016)
C/C++	2015 SP1	15.5 (VAS February 2016)
.NET

	Compatible
	Not Fully Supported

LabVIEW 2009 64-bit or later does have native support for Vision Development Module (VDM) 2009 or later and Vision Acquisition Software (VAS) August 2009 or later.

LabWindows CVI and Microsoft Visual C/C++ applications started having 64 bit support with Vision Development Module 2015 SP1 and Vision Acquisition Software February 2016 but only for the IMAQdx driver.

The NI-IMAQ driver is not fully supported at this time but basic 64-bit C support for IMAQ is installed publicly at the next location: C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\ExternalCompilerSupport\C\lib64\msvc There is no 64-bit support for any of the drivers nor VDM in .NET languages.

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