Another moment of madness from me yay, maybe its a local pc problem because im playing around with updates and hpet settings and switching from my carefully placed network usb connection, and ethernet onboard. Powersettings and other PC road-bumps are thoroughly troubleshooted. I havent gone the DAP route yet,
So as a general pc user, im riding the windows/nvidia update train that most of us are forced to make. I dont want to air-gap my PC, for best case audio, i want to get the most out of everything.
Did windows creative update bork the chord driver ecosystem, i tried the latest windows 10 creative update drivers, and it wouldnt install asio, the driver it did install had pops in direct sound, drop outs in wasapi, when switching exclusive modes in video players, and other wierdness, in the end i reinstalled newest, then reverted to 1.0.58.0 the danger drivers i think**, when used with creative update, was expecting blue screen on exclusive, alas nothing, its behaving itself well, latencymon shows good results, i can window/fullscreen video player with no drop outs, bingo.
Been obsessing over this for the last week yay updates haha.
p.s. been using allot of fidelify (spotify 3rd party asio software, also does a stream buffer) and tidal lossless/masters, i think its a step up, for most general usages \o/
EDIT*** Spoke too soon asio/wasapi in foobar worked fine, but when turned on in tidal and i imagine jriver too, it blue screened.. so basically creative update is terrible
EDIT*** 2 deleted the drivers, unplugged, was about to reinstall, instead i plugged it back in again, it gave me 1.0.62.0 and it found asio, i troubleshooted wasapi on jriver and exclusive on tidal, checked for pops, drop outs on direct sound, nothing obvious yet.. Jesus loves me.