RadiMation Application Note 117
Updating RadiMation device drivers[edit]
RadiMation® uses device drivers to control equipment. Besides a RadiMation release and installation, a separate device driver installation package exists with a different version number. This DRIVERS.EXE is also included by the standard RadiMation installer, but it may be necessary to install a newer version of the DRIVERS.EXE on an already installed RadiMation® version.
You can find the latest device drivers on the Device Drivers Download page.
RadiMation device drivers, will be installed to a specific RadiMation version. For each RadiMation <version>, a separate folder is created containing the files for that RadiMation® version. RadiMation drivers are installed as a list of .DLL files that are placed in the RadiMation <version> installation folder. When installing device drivers to a specific version, its overwrites the older device driver files, and the selected RadiMation® version will from then on use the updated device drivers.
Any other RadiMation® version that is installed on the same PC will remain to use drivers that have previously been installed on that specific version.
During the device driver installation, a backup of the older drivers is made in the "<RadiMation installation <version>>\Backup\<date>\" folder.
Manual restore of the previous device drivers[edit]
In case issues occur after updating device drivers. You may copy and overwrite all the device driver .DLL files from the "\Backup\<date>\" folder, to the RadiMation installation folder.
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Note: | The RadiMation device drivers are a list of .DLL files. Each .DLL file can contain multiple drivers that are related to each other. Often the same device-types with the same brand are combined in 1 .DLL file. Restoring a .DLL file is thus also restoring the previous device driver version of other devices. |
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Note: | Besides device drivers for RadiMation, the drivers installation also includes drivers for Windows to control USB connected equipment created by Raditeq. |