[Rwp] the ongoing experience with windows 10

[Chris Belle]

Well, I think I spoke too soon.
It's a bit better but still getting little drop-outs with my steinberg ur22
even with the chipset update.
So will be hesitant to put w10 on my other machines till I figure this out.


On 4/28/2016 1:30 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
> Well, I am hear to report that my initial win10 audio issues with asio 
> not working well are fixed.
> and again I learned an important lesson, always religiously check for 
> driver updates.
> But this one wasn't so obvious.
> I had initially gone on dell's site and it said my machine wasn't 
> supported for win10 testing, which means they don't guarantee all 
> features working.
> for attached devices and the like.
> Usually for the most part, legacy hardware is supported well by 
> microsoft on modern operating systems,
> at least to a point.
> so there were no obvious issues in control pannel device manager, no 
> devices not found,
> or unknown or other devices, you know the usual things.
> I had done extensive updating and the USB seemed to work well, but 
> asio would never allow me to turn down the buffers without giving me 
> nasty clicks, although wasapi mode worked way better.
> Well, I decided to go on dell's site one more time and try to see if 
> there were any updates.
> This machine was upgraded from a w7 install, with win 10 going in over 
> the top of it, not the way I usually like to do a machine, but I 
> figured this was the safest way to do it and get speech in places I 
> needed it,
> and I was experimenting anyway.
> Plus the image I had burned from the media creation tool didn't work, 
> it wouldn't boot for some reason, so I ended up doing it this way.
> Well, to my surprise, dell scanned my system, and recommended a 
> chipset upgrade.
> and that went in and when I re-booted, I was able to set the asio 
> buffers down nice and low on my steinberg interface,
> and no clicks or pops.
> so even us so called experienced techs can get bitten by the old 
> driver bug,
> and sometimes it's not a straight forward path, because often an older 
> driver or piece of software can work better than a newer one, as many 
> DAW builders know,
> and if something is wrong it will not always be indicated by something 
> in device manager.
> But this chipset upgrade sure made the difference in my old dell 
> second gen i5 based system,
> so even though dell indicates it doesn't support this machine they had 
> obviously done some work with it because this upgrade wasn't available 
> for the w7 install when I did it for that OS, but it was available for 
> the w10 install.
> so w10 is working sweetly now, and plus I have the added niceness of 
> wasapi working well.
>