Windows 10 update breaking USB sound device

[mStuff]

Hello, some time ago the sound card on my motherboard stopped working, so I tried my luck and bought a super cheap generic USB sound card, and it has been working flawlessly for a couple of months.
Yesterday I let my pc update (actually it almost decided to restart by itself :/ ) and today my sound card has a very loud white noise hiss every time sound is playing through it. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the driver multiple times (by the way, I don't think Windows have ever demanded a system restart when uninstalling a sound driver before now).
But it keeps hissing even after driver re-install.
My pc seems completely useless without sound, how can I fix this?

Thanks,

 

[mStuff]

Are you talking about a windows 10 update from windows 7/8/8.1 or are you just talking about the normal security, etc updates that happen in Windows 10? If you udated from an old version of windows, it might not be windows 10 compatible. I had to get a new Bluetooth dongle because my old one was not Windows 10 compatible.

It is just a normal Win10 security/system update, I updated to Win10 through a clean install about a year ago with no major issues. I have done a format once since then about 2 months ago.

Edit: Something that may be part of the issue is another problem I had a week ago (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3294142/suddenly-lag-spikes-games-dota.html)
In short, I installed a custom driver on the sound device, and it started a major issue with lag in games.
I "fixed" the issue by doing a system recovery from a month ago, which I am considering doing again (though not sure if this update will wreck my system recovery)

 

[mStuff]

Ok. Have you tried doing a system restore to the point before the updates were installed to see if it works that way?

OK, I will try it !
Thank you for the help so far

EDIT: these are the recovery points I have - http://pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=111238

 

[mStuff]

Ok. Have you tried doing a system restore to the point before the updates were installed to see if it works that way?

a system restore solved the issue - do I have to avoid windows system updates from now on ?