Decided to upgrade to Win 10 but to be safe I kept my Win 7 installation intact and just installed Win 10 on this comp as a tester with a non-activated version (which to my amusement doesn't have much in the way of restrictions). Anyway I've come across a bunch of issues that I somewhat suspected but still need to get around. I suspected Cubase 5 (DAW recording software) would not work and that is the case, but that was somewhat predictable.
What I wasn't expecting. My Presonus Firestudio Project (sound interface) doesn't work, it's meant to be supported and has Win 10 drivers but it just doesn't work. I thought it might be the Firewire port drivers but they are showing up perfectly fine in the device manager as working despite my Sabertooth P67 motherboard not having Win10 driver updates available. The interface has a driver/control application called "Universal Control" which is updated for Win 10, but the interface simply doesn't register as connected on Universtal Control, and while Win10 recognises the unit (it shows up as a Presonus Firestudio Project in device manager) it states that it's missing a driver.
I can't find a solution anywhere. If I had gone ahead and upgraded my Win 7 installation like Microsoft are trying to force me to do every 5mins with reminder popups and scheduled updates I would literally be fucked, neither the software nor the hardware that I work with on a daily basis is working with Win 10.
/rant
I don't suppose I'l find anyone with a solution here, but felt the need to blow steam over this steaming pile of shit backwards compatibility.