[Rwp] trying reaper with windows 10

[Chris Belle]

Well, we're upgraded a couple of the non critical mission machines 
around here to try out windows 10, why not since microslop is giving it 
away still, ha.
My first test runs with reaper don't bode well for performance, which is 
really rather discouraging considering how light reaper is on resources, 
but this is probably a deeper thing dealing with kernel mode such the 
bottom like is that I get clicks and glitches with audio under win 10 
when I didn't with win 7 on this particular hardware anyway.
This is an i5 dell with a reasonable dpc latency under w7, I could run 
the steinberg ur22 down to 64 asio buffers.
But with win 10, I have to relax it down to below 256 asio buffers to 
get it to behave.
That's not acceptable,
I haven't tested on other hardware yet, and yes, am running the latest 
steinberg drivers.
But it could be anything causing that high dpc latency which I suspect, 
and the bitch is I can't test it with the tools I have because they 
don't work for w10, so need to find something else to tell me what's 
going on under the hood.
so don't get in a hurry to put your DAW on w10 is what I say for now.
Everything else works reasonably well, with the usual
headaches some software won't work anymore and some you have to run in 
compatibility mode, for instance, my lightscribe software I use which is 
partially accessible the simple light scribe labeler will work but won't 
install unless you do compatibility mode.
I varified yesterday on Be My Eyes that a good disk label was burned so 
that's something anyway.
So I'll report back as I know more about microsoft's latest junk ware.
I mean fine leading edge technology 'grin'.
It's always the same, young OS equals headaches, old os means stability 
but programmers get hungry so they need to break things and guess who 
get to be the beta testers and usually pay for the priv as well ha.