Don’t use XP. Solid reasons have already been given

But after browsing the thread I’m not sure the central claim of low latency was addressed fully. We would need to know more about the sound card and the driver for it. Your engineer may have a stable low-latency solution (as long as he keeps it off the Internet) but his sound card may not even be available now, or might not work in Windows 10.

In any event, Windows 10 made some improvements over 7 and 8 and 8.1 in terms of digital audio, so I question the engineer’s claims that latency used to be better with XP.


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