aspenleaf
I'm wondering if the differences are not so much which Focusrite drivers work with Windows 10, but which ones work with certain chipsets. I have an Intel i7 with a Gigabyte z68x motherboard and have many problems since upgrading to Windows 10. I didn't have any of these issues under Windows 7.
Agree. I have the 18i20 on win 10 and it's flawless. But it certainly wasn't when I upgraded. I had to reinstall the driver a number of times, tweak the bios, tweak power settings. Can't really remember exactly what I did to get it working because I was also mucking around with new SSD drives and graphics cards and drivers for Nividia for video production at the same time. But it did come down to settings, and it has been working perfectly now for months. My problems centred around power settings and USB control settings. I would start by restoring default settings to your bios, reboot, re-download and install the current focusrite driver as shown in the win10 compatibility list in their FAQ list, re-name your aud.ini file so that sonar can rebuild a new one, and reboot. I've honestly found win10 rock steady, just needed some tweaking up, just like every other OS before it. You do need to keep everything up to date however. As an aside. I would never return to Mac, or PT. Spent more time working on the system than I did on my music. Upgrades were out of the question for me, and people I know who have stuck with it, are now living/working in the past with ancient hardware and software. IMHO.