Windows 10: Does Windows 10 build 20161 solve the longstanding Firewire driver problem for audio...

As is well known in the audio recording communities, audio interfaces which require legacy drivers are plagued with having to uininstall the firewire driver every time there is a window update, and replace it with a legacy driver. After the last couple of Win10 updates, the problem is much worse as win10 now adds 30 copies of the unhelpful driver, and now we have to spend a great deal of time uuninstalling these 30 before re-installing the legacy driver.

I'm wondering if MS has finally with 20161 taken up the issues raised by the recoding industry or whther I need to abandon my expensive firewire hardware and buy an equally expensive USB based one?

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Firewire problems with windows 10 and audio interface

Hi everyone
Im an amateur musician composer (I do have a day job in architecture).
I've joined this group because I'm having major problems with my music setup after building a new pc for using VSTi virtual instruments / orchestral sample sets. I use a firewire audio interface (motu traveler mk3) but since upgrading my pc it has been crashing whenever I connect the motu to the firewire interface. I understand there is an issue with firewire compatibility with Windows 10. I had some issues with my previous set up, occasional bluesecreen / crashes, having to reset the motu as my default audio interface every so often.
Windows seems to have a driver which should be compatible with the PCIe firewire card (a Qnine, which is compatible with the Texas Instruments chip standard) but I still have this problem.
Does anyone have any advice? It's driving me up the wall, I've spent hundreds on this and just want to get back to making music!
Pleas help
thanks

 

Firewire problems with windows 10 and audio interface

I responded to the user through a PM he sent. So others can see, this was my response:

It must be certain Firewire interfaces or units. I had an MOTU 896Mk3 Hybrid recording interface and a PCIe Firewire card with a T.I. chipset (desired type) and there was no problems in Win 10. I downsized my recording studio and now have a MOTU 4pre that uses USB. The Traveler Mk3 uses the same driver as the 896Mk3 Hybrid so I would suspect the Firewire card you have. If the interface you have does not have a T.I. chipset as a first step I would get one that does have the T.I. chipset.
This is the card I used: LINK

 

The Ultimate Realtek HD Audio Driver Mod for Windows 10

Everyone that post ids, need just do these steps and you will be good. I kinda tired of keep on uploading the inf. file

1.Go Open up device manager
2. Go under sound,video, and game controllers
3. Find Realtek High Definition Audio
4. Right click and hit update driver
5. Browse my computer for driver software
6. Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer
7. Click Have Disk and hit browse
8. Click on the Realtek HD Audio mod folder and look for win64
9. Click on the HDXRT4 and click ok,
10. Click Next and Yes
additional if you want dts audio and others, install it now before next step.
After it is done, restart the PC

You should be good then and also make sure before doing these steps that you have driver enforcement disabled.