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    Aspire One Windows 7 webcam driver

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by nitrous9200, Aug 16, 2010.

  1. nitrous9200

    nitrous9200 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I installed Win7 on my AOA150 and out of the box almost everything important had a preloaded driver which was great. I installed the card reader driver from Acer (the XP one) which added pretty icons and touchpad driver directly from Synaptics which gave me multitouch scrolling. Last thing was the webcam; Windows had a preloaded driver which worked but performance was poor and Skype calls were jerky due to the low framerate. Because Acer doesn't officially support Windows 7 on this model I looked it up by PID and VID and found an Asus driver that works great here: Asus Z97V notebook KYE USB Video Device Driver V5.8.46000.2 for Windows Vista
    I ran the AsusSetup.exe in compatibility mode to make things easy but I'm sure you could also just update from device manager. It adds a stupid tray icon app that wastes memory telling you the when the webcam is activated, but motion from the camera is buttery smooth. Just thought I'd put that out there since I couldn't find it anywhere. Hope this helps someone, that was the last issue I had with Win7 on this thing which is now working beautifully.
     
    nitrous9200, Aug 16, 2010
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