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1.2.7.0 changed the filter attach point. It doesn't play nice with Win7's USB stack for isochronous transfers. The 1.2.6.0 filter is the last one that works with the old HAL. libusb-win64-devel-filter-1.2.6.0 download
For eleven months, the "Chimera" project had been his life. A portable neutrino scanner, small enough to fit in a backpack, capable of seeing through fifty meters of solid granite. The physics was elegant, the engineering brutal. And now, the final hurdle wasn't a cracked crystal oscillator or a flawed logic gate. It was a driver. Forum links were dead