Turbo Lan is ONLY showing the network activity of my other adapter, not the one currently being used to route VEP.
Any other suggestions as to what is causing the random clicks?
Each app uses it’s own VC version, you need to keep ALL the versions installed with your apps
You need to dissable your network driver and also TICK THE BOX TO REMOVE IT, then search for new hardware and Windows will install it’s own WHQL driver.
In general, Cubase runs BEST when only using microsoft win10 suggested drivers where possible.
DO NOT try to tinker the system with vendor specific drivers, or “updates” of 8.x version drivers. That’s asking for timing troubles.
I had similar issues and used Latencymon to narrow things down to my network card and a bad Logitech usb wireless transmitter. I updated both drivers (used the Intel site for the network card driver), things seemed a bit better but still had random hits. The Intel eathernet driver has a diagnosttics feature (device manager, right click on the Network Adapter, the select Properties). I ran the cable test and found that my PC → wall port Cat5e cable was crappy. I swapped it out with a good one and the gliches vanished.
If you have the latest Intel Driver test your cable, a simple cable turned out to be the weakest link with my setup.
If you still encounter issues with the DPC Latency, click on the link below and take a look:
This may be causing that kind of behavior to your system. As far as I can see ASUS still did not made the release of the bios update to fix the skylake architecture situation. I also want to upgrade my system to the skylake 6700k CPU and I found this while making some research about this CPU. I can only hope they will fix this in the following skylake architecture cpu models they will release. Also, let’s hope they will keep this Chipset and Socket for the following releases. Something tells me that they will not do that and as far as I can see, some other people leaving comments regarding the Z170 Chipset think the same way too… 
I recently updated Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 10.0.40219. Do I need to be using 2013?
No it will install with the product which needs it, waves also installs these “distributables”, these are for runtime support and all versions till (2015) can exist side by side.
Not a thing to worry about (You’ll be if you do not install these as the software which needs it will probably crash or do some other dumb thing)