G55VW-DH71 FAIL! BSOD with BlackMagic Design Intensity USB 3 & Thunderboldt!

I am running an Asus G55VW-DH71 and I get BSOD ALL THE TIME while running BlackMagic Design Intensity USB 3 & Thunderboldt. The thunderbolt Shuttle works fine on it's own but crashes like crazy when it and the USB 3.0 are plugged in, each just being fed 720p via HDMI. I use a program called Resolume Avenue to mix the two video signals, not recording the video, just mixing it. Any help would be appreciated!

 

Which operating system are you using?

 

Win7 64

Sounds like BMD says they only support NEC usb3 controllers.. Would be nice if they said that on the product page.. the Asus has intel

here is what they said:
"We'd love to have USB 3.0 compatibility across the board, it would allow us to sell way more devices than we do. That being said, the issue at hand here is that when the USB 3.0 spec was announced, we saw that the 5gb/sec rate was enough to allow for uncompressed HD capture and we designed our device around that spec. When it came time for implementation however, only the NEC Renesas USB 3.0 Host controller was able to pass that full 5gb/sec that our device needs... Intel eXtensible, Asmedia, Texas Instruments all get really close but to not allow for the full 5gb/sec bandwidth that our devices need."


Thanks guys would have been nice to know before I dropped all this $ on a new laptop.

Anyone out there gotten the Asus G55vw to work with the Intensity Usb3?

 

All of the USB 3.0 controller can output 5Gbps, not just NEC/Renesas controller.
I can understand why they wanted to tell you that story so they don't have to try to qualify different controllers to make their device compatible.
But the fact is, NEC/Renesas aren't the only USB 3.0 vendor in the market now and there are others such as ASMedia, Elcor, etc.
However, it is generally accepted that NEC/Renesas works the best because of the initial selling privilege that they had.