Question / Help xcapture-1 cpu problem in windows7

[Yorubannin]

So there is this known problem for xcapture-1 device:

"...There's one curious behavior of the XCAPTURE-1 that needs to be mentioned: Whenever the card is active at all, it seems to disable all power-saving functions of the CPU or something. The moment I begin displaying the XCAPTURE-1 input in any video program (before recording, encoding, or streaming), the temperature on my CPU rapidly increases to the same level it would be at when used for actual video encoding..."

I have googled for hours without success... the latest drivers from micomsoft seems to fix it but only for windows 8 64bit (which i don't like)

There have been suggestions of trying to switch between power settings for possible fix but it didn't work for me or i did it wrong. 1 solution that i thought about myself is running windows 8 inside windows 7 with oracle vm virtualbox but not sure if it's possible yet.

I use win7 64bit. Please let me know if you know something.

 

[dping]

So there is this known problem for xcapture-1 device:

"...There's one curious behavior of the XCAPTURE-1 that needs to be mentioned: Whenever the card is active at all, it seems to disable all power-saving functions of the CPU or something. The moment I begin displaying the XCAPTURE-1 input in any video program (before recording, encoding, or streaming), the temperature on my CPU rapidly increases to the same level it would be at when used for actual video encoding..."

I have googled for hours without success... the latest drivers from micomsoft seems to fix it but only for windows 8 64bit (which i don't like)

There have been suggestions of trying to switch between power settings for possible fix but it didn't work for me or i did it wrong. 1 solution that i thought about myself is running windows 8 inside windows 7 with oracle vm virtualbox but not sure if it's possible yet.

I use win7 64bit. Please let me know if you know something.

@FerretBomb uses a Micomsoft card I believe.

but if I'm using a capture card, i would not want my PC going into a lower power state which could cause stuttering so I dont see that as a bad thing.

 

[Yorubannin]

No it's a problem where it uses too much cpu when it's not even needed and they only made fix for win8. Anyway, im currently trying to setup win7 & win8 dualboot in my partitioned ssd and will let you guys know if it works. If it does, then i shall spam the solution across the whole universe...

Edit: Yes indeed it was possible, i installed windows 8.1 as a dualboot into the same ssd i have windows 7 in (Samsung 500GB 850 EVO), but into a third partition (100GB) that i created in disk management. I had lot of trouble installing dualboot but stopped getting errors when i ran /clean diskpart and fixboot/fixmbr commands in cmd and REMOVED HDD. So this is one way to fix 100% cpu issue if you are passionate enough to install dualboot because i personally hate 8.1.