Microsoft’s Vista OS has brought with it a number of issues. All of these discovered so far are related to camera drivers (or lack of drivers) that play well with Vista.

Nebulosity

Nebulosity launches and works just fine in Vista. Not all cameras work for capture at the moment, however. So far, the ones that don’t can be traced to driver issues.

  • Orion Starshoot - Tested fine (Craig)
  • Meade DSIs - Tested fine (Craig)
  • Starlight Xpress SXV(F) - SXV M7 tested fine (Craig)
  • SAC 10 - Drivers would not install and when forced to install, the install process caused a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) Camera driver problem
  • Canon DSLRs - Canon’s current SDK is not working in Vista. It seems they have a new one that may not yet be released that does work in Vista. Camera driver problem

PHD Guiding

PHD will not launch as-is under Vista, but if you right-click on it, and pull down Properties, Compatibility, and set it to run in XP SP2 mode it will run just fine. This is the result of a driver compiled into PHD.

As of version 1.6.1. Full Vista compatibility (no longer need XP SP2 mode)

Cameras

  • Meade DSIs - Tested fine (Craig)
  • The Imaging Source - Tested fine (Craig)

Scope interfaces

  • ShoeString GPUSB - Tested fine (Craig)

Craterlet

 
other/vista.txt · Last modified: 2008/03/05 21:15 by kip
 
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