Need some help with the new system.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by virtuald

I believe that you must have LabVIEW on the machine to run this years driver station software. It may be a standalone executable, but I don't believe so. I haven't really looked, but I know some others have been talking about it so just do a quick search. I'm also pretty sure that you can run the software on any old desktop, the NI guys said thats how they generally test it.

To run a LabVIEW executable, you need the LabVIEW runtime engine. This is the same as how you need the .NET framework to run .NET executables. The DS installer installs the runtime engine (which is part of the reason it is so big). You do not need LabVIEW installed to run the DS software.

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

To run a LabVIEW executable, you need the LabVIEW runtime engine. This is the same as how you need the .NET framework to run .NET executables. The DS installer installs the runtime engine (which is part of the reason it is so big). You do not need LabVIEW installed to run the DS software.

The Dashboard on the other hand will complain about Vision DLLs if LabVIEW is not installed.