Micomsoft 100% CPU bug fixed

So this bug has been circulating for awhile now and yesterday I discovered the solution. It's not by any means a good solution but it works perfectly. Originally I thought it was to do with what motherboard settings or configuration of C states you had.

You have to update to Windows 8 and all your troubles will be over. Upgrading from 7 was not as difficult as I thought it would be. I'd highly recommend doing this though if you want to have the perfect capture setup.

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Update for April 2015

So I decided to look back at this and do some more investigation. If we look back at the Micomsoft driver page for v1.1.0.124, we will see this entry.

Windows8使用時にCPU使用率（合計）が98～100%と認識されてしまう問題に対策しました。

Roughly translated, it means they identified and fixed the bug, but only for Windows 8. I guess we can't really blame them since they probably only develop on latest operating systems.

To see if this was true, I downloaded the previous driver where the bug should have still been present (v1.1.0.122). The below screenshot shows the bug active.

I then uninstalled that driver, restarted the system and installed Micomsoft's latest driver. It has now been fixed (you can check the PS3 clock if you want). :P

So yeah, just make sure you are running Windows 8 and the latest drivers. Either from Micomsoft or the Yuan VidBlaster ones and you should be fine.

New Yuan/Micomsoft Drivers (February 2015)

Didn't even know Yuan had drivers available for download until today. I quickly checked them out here: http://www.yuan.com.tw/en/market/software/vidblasterdriver/vidblasterdriver.htm

The date is about 2 months newer than the Micomsoft drivers but from my testing they appear to be no cosmetic changes to the driver layout. The only changes from other sources seems to be that high data levels from 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 will no longer hiccup at 720p and multiple card support numbering has been fixed. I'll update this if I encounter anything over the next few days.