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For years Ive used a ZWO120 and sharp cap but decided the new models have improved enough to get something modern, the 664. I did the drivers install, the manual says to install ASI studio and Ascom something or other.(not in that order, ZWO specifies a particular order that I followed) I,m not super computer literate so I tried to follow the instructions exactly. Camera not found. I tried many things including re installing drivers,and then when I tried another USB port I was getting SOME results, I could open the camera in ASIstudio but not Sharp Cap.Although at this point Sharp Cap could could find the old 120.
I deleted Ascom, ASI studio, and the ZWO drivers.Fresh start. Re installed ONLY the ZWO drivers and voila! Both cameras are now found with Sharp Cap! Happy Day. Just a hunch but I feel the problem might be related to Ascom, which I didn't want, I have no need for mount/focuser,dome control etc.
I hope this helps anyone else having the same problem and would like to hear if it works for you.

Hi,

thanks for sharing and glad you got it working

Normally you won't find a problem between having ASCOM and the direct access to cameras in SharpCap, so I suspect that you will be able to re-install ASCOM now and not have the camera show any problems. Updating from a very old version of SharpCap to the current version does seem to sometimes also require a newer version of the ZWO drivers (what they call the native camera driver for Windows), and that in turn might require a reboot to take effect.

clear skies!

Robin