I previously used Quartus II Web Edition 14 on my desktop Win 7 with my clone USB Blaster without issue. Since upgrading to Win 10 I get blue screens when trying to use the Blaster. I've got the latest Quartus Prime Lite 15.1 and still have the same problem with the drivers. I've also tried with a fresh install of Win 10 on my laptop.
Thankfully the linux kernel driver works just fine so I dual boot into Ubuntu but it can be a drag when most of my other work I get up to runs under windows.
Anyone else using Win 10? I am beginning to suspect Altera are doing an "FTDI-gate" with their win drivers to root out all the clone hardware
Not sure about the blaster but the supported windows version for 15.1 is 8.1 - the simulator is only good for windows 8.0.
So you're on unsupported territory with Windows 10...
I'll stick with the Ubuntu dual boot I think. I might try a VirtualBox in Win 10, but it's slow enough as it is!
Not really, it's not the Quartus application but the USB Blaster drivers that are crashing windows. A hardware fault.
thats what virtual machines are for
some people even keep separate VMs per client/project
The original USB Blaster works fine here

(Win10 Pro N 64bit)
I ordered a clone from china, will post here as soon as it arrives(~2 weeks)
Wow, changing to a different USB Blaster clone also solved my problem. The Terasic Blaster is working fine for me.
if i remember right the blaster uses an ftdi chip ....
fake china blasters may have fake ftdi's in em ... er emulated using a cypress chip ...
not altera's fault.
I'm currently using one that uses a PIC18F14K50 and an octal buffer. It's actually slightly faster than the real one.
Yep, that looks the same as my (new) one
How do you all run the driver with windows 10 anyway? I'm using a Terasic board and I can't find a signed driver for it. Every time I reboot, I have to go back into debug options and disable signing to be able to do anything. Super obnoxious. Never had a blue screen though.
To tell you the truth, I don't think I fired up Quartus since my Windows 10 upgrade.
How do you all run the driver with windows 10 anyway? I'm using a Terasic board and I can't find a signed driver for it. Every time I reboot, I have to go back into debug options and disable signing to be able to do anything. Super obnoxious. Never had a blue screen though.
I'm using the Altera driver that comes with Quartus. In my case that's C:\altera_lite\15.1\quartus\drivers
Thank you very much! The driver works fine for me with Woindows 10 and Altera prime 16.1!