I had problems using my old Philips TouCam Pro with Win7 since Philips does not offer any drivers for it. I read somewhere that you could hack some drivers but that sounded so complicated.
Here is a driver that works with the TouCam in Win7 (at least 32-bit) right out of the box. Just do like this:
1. Download the driver package (click the drive icon under Téléchargement, which is french for download)
2. Unzip the files to a folder of your choice
3. Plug in your toucam, cancel the automatic driver installation window that pops up.
4. Open the Windows 7 Control panel, in the search field there, type ” device ” to find the device manager, open it.
5. Find your unrecognized device in the list, right-click on it and choose “update driver software”, “browse my computer for software” and browse to your folder where you unzipped the files. Click next, ignore the warning and the driver installs.
VOILA!
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Brilliant!!! Thank you so much
it dosnt work…. it says windows could not find compatible driver in the folder. windows needs 64 bit driver..
thanks worked very well
@huhu, maybe this only works for 32-bit os, sorry
Perfect! It works for me! thancks!
//win7, 32-bit
@eugge, thanx for reporting os version. Seems this is only possible for 32 bit Windows.
Yes, this is for 32 bit only. Windows 64 needs completely different drivers: re-written from Win32 (no Win32 drivers can be used in Win64).
it doesn’t work, my laptop pc is a 74 using win 7… i tried several things…the pc doesn’t see the drivers in th folder…
ThankSssssSSSSS!!!!!!
it works !!! thanks a lot..
Merci beaucoup, finalement une solution qui marche
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From the philips website if you like
http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?ctn=PCVC740K&dct=FAQ&faqview=1&new_tmpl=1&refdisplay=WEBCAM_QAC_66387&refnr=0066387&scy=US&slg=AEN
It worked for me on Win7 32 bit. Thank you!
For useage on 64bit win7 Touchcam Pro
http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/s/spc900nc_00/spc900nc_00_dw7_eng.exe
When manual select ALL DEVICES manual and select from extracted map
C:\Program Files (x86)\Philips\Philips SPC900NC PC Camera
If you select video/cam it will not find your device so select ALL devices. And this will work perfect with your Philips Touchcam Pro under 64bit Win7.
The Touchcam Pro will be device listed as Philips SPC 900NC PC Camera, but will work as intended on 64bit. Skype/Windows Live messenger.
A2I you are right… but you need to do some editing before updating the drivers!
Procedure for Win 7 x64:
1 – Download the Windows 7 drivers for your Philips Webcam SPC900NC VGA CCD with Pixel Plus and install them.
http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/s/spc900nc_00/spc900nc_00_dw7_eng.exe
2 – In C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Philips \ Philips SPC900NC PC Camera edit files with Notepad:
To view the line number, select the notepad menu – View – Status Bar, Word Wrap to be disabled if necessary.
In Camvid40.inf:
Line 66 should be replaced with:
% USBVid.DeviceDesc% = USBVidx86, USB \ VID_0471 & PID_0311 & MI_00 [/ code]
Line 69 should be replaced with:
% USBVid.DeviceDesc% = USBVidXp64, USB \ VID_0471 & PID_0311 & MI_00 [/ code]
Line 72 should be replaced with:
% USBVid.DeviceDesc% = USBVidVista64, USB \ VID_0471 & PID _0311 & MI_00 [/ code]
Edit the file with Notepad SPC900.txt
replace line # 2 with:
USB \ VID_0471 & PID_0311 & MI_00 [/ code]
Save and close. (If You Can not save copy the files to another location, edit them and then copy Them back and select “Copy and Replace”
In device manager there should be an unknown device with exclamation mark.
Update driver and select the path: C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Philips \ Philips SPC900NC PC Camera driver will be installed ..
That’s it!!!!! Enjoy!!!!!!!!
Thank you sooooo very much!!!
I was waiting for that for a long time.
Peace