[micro-manager-general] Micro-manager 1.4 and 2.0gamma with Nikon Ti2

[Wolfgang K. <wol...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am trying to operate a Nikon Eclipse Ti2 inverted microscope with
micro-manager under Windows 10. I installed version 1.2 of the Nikon Ti2
control software and copied the Ti2_Mic_Driver.dll into the micro-manager
folder .  The scope is connected via USB 3.0 port to my computer.

In the hardware configuration wizard, I see the Ti2 and upon clicking
"add", micro-manager gives me the options of adding the various parts of
the scope (XY stage etc.).
However, when I click "Add" then, micro-manager consistently crashes.
This is true both for MM version 1.4 and for 2.0. I also got these crashes
with a more recent version of the Ti2 control software (2.0).

Initially, I tried with MM version 2.0 only and since it crashed all the
time, I installed MM 1.4, upon which it worked ONCE to add the Ti2
microscope and generate a configuration file that let me operate the scope.
However, afterwards, micro-manager crashed whenever I re-opened it and
tried to load the very same configuration file.

I am attaching two CoreLogs.txt generated after the crashes, which, I am
afraid, are not telling much about the problem. I read that there might be
a version conflict and only some combinations of Ti2 control and
micro-manager work. Could you recommend a combination of micro-manager
version and Ti2 that is known to work on Windows 10? Any other hints to fix
this problem?

Thanks and best regards,
Wolfgang Keil