Firewire Card and Drivers

[Shelleyamb]

I have an HP slimline machine running Windows 7.
My video camera ia a Sony Digital Handicam.
Sony stopped creating drivers for any operating system past XP.
If I install a firewire card will this negate the driver problem and let the camera talk to the computer, or is it a lost cause?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Late reply, but AFAIK, FireWire drivers are preinstalled in every modern Windows OS... so it should work out of the box...

 

[corkyg]

Windows 7 comes with a legacy 1394 driver - that should work.

 

[Thrashard]

Over the years I've had multiple Firewire devices, Sony and multiple Epson scanners and never got it to work right. It would work here and there, but tons of crashes

 

[corkyg]

That is a common comment - keep in mind that 1394 is a power hog compared to USB. Many of the problems are power related.

 

[Thrashard]

There seemed to be tons of problems with TWAIN plug-in support and everyone abandoned support now. Been a while but think I used that a lot.