Aja card Mercury transmit crashes

If I use Mercury transmit with my aja card, speedgrade crashes or won't run at all.
I know this is a bit of a known issue, but I haven't seen much mention of this since early november.  are there any fixes or workarounds I heven't heard about yet? (apart from not using an external monitor.)
It's a real shame as it is now rendered virtualy useless for me.

A notification should popup in Creative Cloud application manager automatically. If not, close and restart the application or manually update:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5701 (Win)
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5700 (Mac)

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