I don't have the Behringer 202, but I do have the Behringer UMC404HD. My experience is as follows:

My Behringer is connected to my laptop computer, and for my own reasons, I do not have the onboard soundcard disabled. So, I have two sound sources on the laptop.

I have found that when I reboot my computer, sometimes the Behringer is automatically recognized. Sometimes it is not. So, I have put the Sound icon from Control Panel on my desktop to check after each reboot. It's a pain, but it's easy. If the computer doesn't see the Behringer, I unplug it, plug it back in, and Windows sees it and reassigns it as the default sound source.

In both BIAB and RealBand, I have had no luck at all with the WAS driver. Sometimes it will work (I get sound) for a little bit, and then I get nothing. So, I always make sure that BIAB or RealBand didn't switch over to the WAS driver (it sometimes happens after applying a patch update).

In control panel, I have the unit set for 16-bit, 44.1 kbps on both the playback and record side, as this is what BIAB uses.

I keep the most recent ASIO driver from Behringer installed. I generally have it set to 256 buffers, but sometimes when I have a lot of tracks, I have to up it to 512 buffers to elimiate crackle and dropouts. I have to rarely do this.

This is all on a 10 year old laptop running a 1st generation i5 processor, 8GB RAM, and 2 2-TB hard drives. This laptop started with Windows 7, and has been upgraded through Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and all iterations of Windows 10 since it came out. So far, it runs like a champ and sound is great.

One thing you might want to try (since you said it's a new laptop) is to see if maybe you are plugged into a USB-3 port. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the Behringer is a USB-2 device (and although the USB-3 ports are backwards compatible, I have heard that not all USB-2 devices work properly in them). So, if you have a USB-2 port, you should try that. Plugging a USB-2 device into a USB-3 port does not give you any performance advantage.

Hope some of this will help. I realize that they are two different units (the 202 vs the 404). It took me awhile to figure all of the above out, and I initially had problems with mine. But it now works great, once I did figure it out.

John

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