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 GigE Vision™ capture filter driver on ALL NICs currently available in the system.

After the installation of the GigE Vision™ 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 GigE Vision™ capture filter driver is used
• "SocketAPI" when the GigE Vision™ capture filter 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 capture filter driver on certain NICs or virtual adapters manually.