Install The GigE Vision™ Capture Filter Driver

To install the GigE Vision™ capture filter driver, please follow these instructions:

1. Start GigEConfigure by clicking the program in the start menu.
2. When started click on the "Install driver" button.
   The tool will then automatically install the driver on ALL NICs currently available in the system.

After the installation of the capture filter driver, you will see you network devices and the connected devices:

GigEConfigure - Displaying connected devices after driver installation

When a GigE Vision™ compliant device will be initialised, ImpactControlCenter will display the used driver technology in The Property Grid .

ImpactControlCenter - Device Properties

Once a device has been initialized successfully the property "mvStreamDriverTechnology" will display

• "FilterDriver" when the high performance kernel mode driver is used
• "SocketAPI" when the driver is not installed or available

The property is located under "System Settings → GenTL" in interface layout "DeviceSpecific" or under "Image Settings → Camera → GenTL" in interface layout "GenICam". For more information about different interface layouts please refer to Changing The Interface Layout To GenICam™ Or DeviceSpecific.

Note

Afterwards you might want to Disable the filter driver on certain NIC or virtual adapters manually.