Topic: FF 400 / totalmix w/ win10x64 becoming less reliable.
For many years I have had zero problems with my trusty FF400. I've been constantly impressed by its performance, and always recommend RME to my friends. While I have upgraded my pc over time, as well as the Firewire card and cable, none of those have really affected the performance in my audio apps and in Reaper.
But In the last iteration or so of Win 10 feature updates (1809, 1903), now I get periodic random blue screen of death in Reaper (which I realize could be from many different things), as well as non bsod crashes on reboot.
The BSOD crashdumps point to the firewire card, which as far as I can tell from my troubleshooting, depends on a pretty ancient legacy driver and there's no way out of that. Swapping out cards makes no difference.
When the non-bsod errors occur on machine reboots, they point directly to a Totalmix problem (can't remember if it mentions a .dll). It's not every time but it is pretty frequent.
I've got the newest firmware & sw updates for my FF400 that I am aware of. While I think there's probably nothing physically wrong with my FF400, I'm considering selling it and getting an FF UC instead.
(Yes, I realize I could have a totally separate DAW pc retaining a non-networked win 7 box or something, but that is not in the cards for me at this time).
thoughts?
Thx RMErs. : )