Hey guys has anyone tried the fw1884 with Win 8/8.1 and KB2970191 ?
This is supposed to be the legacy firewire driver for win 8/8.1.
Looks like it was released 9/9/14.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/solved-win-81-update-causes-issues-with-older-firewire-interface
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/u...ge.aspxs-m3127646.aspx

Interesting! 
I will try it as soon as I have the time for it, this should probably fix the issues with the difficult install. 
They are probably signed as well? 

PS: the links did not work for me, but I googled KB2970191 and found this from Microsoft
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970191
 

Sorry the links are broken. I will fix when time allows.
Yes the drivers are signed. I am sure they simply signed the Win 7 drivers which worked perfectly.
Not sure why it took 2 years. Prob needed a couple hundred meetings and some bullet points /action items.
 
 
 

Just an update, I've now tried these signed Legacy drivers from Microsoft and they work perfectly.
 
I had a reinstall of my Whole DAW rig this weekend (New OS HDD) and there was quite litte hassle to get my FW1884 working.
 
I just had to install the KB from Microsoft, followed by the FW1884 1.8 Drivers (64bit) then the Sonar surface plugin.
Works perfectly :)  

Good News!
Thanks Kris

W8.1 is very stable and for Windows 10 Microsoft is preparing great things for audio.
 
That said if the FW-1884 works well with Windows 7, one can do a double boot machine with both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
 
I have a FW-1884 somewhere, perhaps I'll try to set it up again.

I had W7 on a dual boot for a while, just for backup. After 2 months I found out I did not need it and haven't looked back since.

You guys made me want to use the FW-1884 again!
 
So I got it back from the storage room and installed an old Firewire card.
 
I installed it under Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit with Sonar X3e and it seems to work well.
 
My only test so far is to open and play back the Sonar X3 Demo - Javier Colon.cwp than came with X3.
It plays back well with 128 samples configured in ASIO.
 
If you guys have a more complex project for me to try, I'll be grateful to download it.
 
So my question is: why do you insist on installing a special legacy FireWire driver? Or have I not done something complex enough so far  to show the limits of the standard Windows 8.1 driver?
 
 
 
 

Hmm, I dont remember why we did use the Legacy driver, but if I'm not mistaken it was because of stability? I think this applies to all FW Devices in Win7 and Win8
 
Tom probably remember :)