DMK41 & Windows 10 woes

[tich]

Hi everyone.
I solar image using a DMK41 camera & PST's (Ha & CaK) & whilst using it on my very old laptop running Windows 7 I've never had much in the way of issues apart from when I updated Sharpcap once & all I were getting was a black screen, I fired up Firecapture & it worked fine so I've used it ever since.

I've bought an HP Mini PC with an i5 processor running Windows 10 as I want to use it in the observatory to either use when I image DSO's & monitor the progress indoors via wifi or to use for planetary & Solar imaging. I've downloaded all the latest drivers & tested out the DMK today but when you start a capture it would either move a frame of 2 then do nothing then might go down a few more frames, I tried it in an older version of Sharpcap & it were doing the same. I tried with an ASI120 MM which I use for guiding & it worked fine so not sure why I can't get the DMK to behave. The mini PC itself only has USB3 ports so were wondering if that could be causing the issue but I thought it should work with a USB2. 

As far as I know the mini PC has all the specs to run it when I downloaded the drivers from their website.

[tich]

Hmmm maybe I posted this in the wrong section but I'm still not having any luck with it, I tried IC capture & I can get it to work at 7.5 FPS but on 15 the screen goes black & a message says it cannot do a live view.

[Freff]

Hi Tich

Sorry to hear you are having difficulties.

The only thing that flashes across my diminishing mind,  is perhaps the video card not up to it.

Been to Pencelli a few times this month, hoping to catch the eclipse on the last visit. (cloudy, duh) Will be there again mid July.

Take care.

[tich]

Hi Tony
I messed around with it in ic capture & I can get it working at 7.5FPS but on 15 it just goes to a black screen blooming nightmare, so I thought I know I've got an old laptop with firewire connection lets get the PGR Grasshopper running but nope that's also become a nightmare so pretty much give up with them both now.

It's been a while since I've been to Pencelli we must make it down there again sometime 🙂

Edited June 18, 2021 by tich