Thanks for your answer JCschild!
Sorry, I forgot to say, that the legacy driver has been “kindly” removed from windows 8 by Microsoft. And it seems like they have no intension of bringing it back, although many are having problems with the new driver.
But I just realized that my parents have a win7 64bit machine and I’m seeing them soon, so I’ll be getting the driver from them.
In case someone’s interested, I’ll post back next week whether it solves the problem.