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    Webcam of 1810T awful awful awful....

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zooster, Feb 7, 2010.

  1. zooster

    zooster Notebook Evangelist

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    I've found out that the webcam is a Suyin, I installed drivers from acer website.. and the result is still terrible.
    The webcam is so slooooow, like 1 fps. Even when not in videocall and using acer crystal eye webcam to set it, it's slow, pixelated and sloow.. I don't mind about the colour, yellowish but adjustable, but I do mind about the fps and quality.
    I guess it's a driver matter, because the driver installed is the microsoft's standard one. But I couldn't manage to get better results, also some of the settings like auto and white balance or camera control are not selectable.
    Anyone can please give/share support on this?
     
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    zooster Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok, I've found that actually the .inf file of Suyin driver from Acer support site is actually... EMPTY, here is the contenent:
    So everything is missing in the driver for W7/vista compared to driver for XP... And since it's basically empty w7 loads the standard driver that is awful... So after all in the driver package there is only the acer program, and not a driver well developed.
     

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    I'm pretty sure you can use the chicony driver.
     
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    I don't think so... Chicony driver for W7 looks empty as well:
     
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