Specifically what are you having issues with? You say the driver does not work but I'm not getting how. Does it not work at all? Does the system crash?
No crashing.
I can open & run Live for as long as I want, but at some point - sometimes after 2 minutes, sometimes after 45 minutes - the audio playback breaks down into basically nothing but clicks, pops, and crackles. It's not the recorded audio, but the audio *playback* - I know this because if I record an analog audio signal to a track while the noise is present, save it, then apply my workaround (more on that in a sec), the recorded signal does NOT have the noise in it. It plays back fine.
The only workaround I have found, and what led me to believe it was a driver issue involves going into the Tascam's Control Panel Software. There's a few options in there
1. Latency - options = Very Low/Low/Normal/High/Very High.
I have tried all those options, nothing changes.
2. Digital output format: options = Aes/EBU or S/PDIF.
Tried both, makes no difference, I leave it on S/PDIF.
3. Clock source: Options = Automatic or Internal
Internal causes the 1641 to generate it's own clock. 'Automatic' is the proper setting to use if you want to use the 1641's digital inputs. This setting causes the 1641 to lock to the incoming digital signal's clock. The 'correct' setting to leave it on is automatic, as it should switch between internal & the digital input automatically depending on whether or not a digital signal is present at the input.
This is the setting that I use for my workaround. When the clicks/pops/crackles begin, if I go to that option, and switch it to whatever it is not on, Live works fine again - for another 2-45 minutes. Then I can repeat the work around process. To be clear, it's not one setting or the other that makes it work, it is the act of *switching* to the unused option that seems to bring Live back to it's senses.
Oh, it is not a problem unique to Live. It happens in Winamp, Windows Media Player, VLC, anything that plays back audio. HOWEVER - if I pull the Tascam out of the equation & plug a pair of headphones directly into the computer, all of these program work just fine. At this point, I was sure it was the Tascam driver.
I decided to purchase another interface & say to hell with the Tascam. ordered a Presonus Firestudio Project. It arrived, plugged it in - same.exact.problem. Pops, clicks, crackles. PLayed around a bit, couldn't get it going, returned it so I wouldn't end up eating the money.
Oh, also, the Tascam works fine with my Windows XP machine, so I know it's not a hardware issue.