[elken2004 (Australia)]

Ok after much to do with installing and configuring drivers for
Windows 8.1 64 bit
Windows 8.1 32 bit
Windows 7 32 bit (ignoring 64bit)

and trawling google from end of the world to other
especially to with 64 bit drivers in particular with Orion products

win 8.1 64bit
It all started with the starshoot 5mp, which has ezcap software, which is not good enough. I wanted to use other packages with it. Big brick wall !!\
So I resorted to ASCOM. I had already done the EQmod stuff. but not employed yet.

( PHD V2 worked perfectly with my SSAG ) win 8.1 64bit

I downloaded the ASCOM 6.1 platform and the ASCOMSSAG drivers etc

all went well till i tried SSAG with ASCOM and PHD V2 (brick wall )
did all the suggested things i found everywhere. Nup!

big long story in middle here not worth writing

I ended up borrowing a win7 32bit computer did all of above and shazzam all worked perfect.

Even had my SSAG working as normal camera under the SharpCap v2.5
oh it takes amazing pictures too. cant wait to try it out on live Telescope

It will work with any ASCOM enabled imaging software too
APT etc.................

I am real close to getting the 64 bit SSAG driver to work with ASCOM too.

The solution as it stands is in the System registry to sort it out
as the SSAG driver is 64bit enabled.

a bit of cut and splice I am sure will work, unless ORION actually just add the register the driver correctly in the wowsys64 system folder.

to be continued.............

i am busy ATM repairing at PCB level a SBIG STL11000 for someone else. It takes forever doing test images to see if repair is successful.