tomb18 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Hi,I have been struggling with something for months now...I have XP64 and 4 g of ram. I have installed the latest sb audigy 2 drivers for xp64. I then install a few of the 32 bit apps that come with the soundblaster specifically the THX console.Now the problem is this; If I do a sound test from the THX console, I will hear sound first from the left, then the left AND right, then the right, then the left front AND left rear, then the Right front AND right rear. What is supposed to happen is left then center, then right, then rear left (only) and then rear right (only).Now, if I go in games it always says that I have a 2 channel sound board, 5.1 options and EAX are greyed out!If I look at DXDIAG, it shows that there is no hardware acceleration available and EAX 1 and 2 and 3 are not supported.Now, if I go into BOOT.INI and set /maxmem=4096 then the audigy works fine! All of the options are available in games and the THX console works properly. Furthermore the DXdiags shows full support for EAXWhat is happening, is that if I use all of the ram then the sound blaster doesn't work. If I limit it to 4G max, then windows will allocatge I/O to above 2.8 G of ram and everything is fine. Except, that now I have 2.8G of ram instead of 4 g.Anyone else run into this with 4G of ram or more? After all, this is a 64bit computing forum and I would think that other people must be running more than 2G with a audigy card!Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 i dont see how its a ram problem tho. vry strangedxdiag and eax is just a mixup, it does that with alot of cards.you should head over to the creative forum, im sure they know alot more than we do about their own cardshttp://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/bo...id=soundblaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomb18 Posted August 28, 2006 Author Share Posted August 28, 2006 i dont see how its a ram problem tho. vry strangedxdiag and eax is just a mixup, it does that with alot of cards.you should head over to the creative forum, im sure they know alot more than we do about their own cardshttp://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/bo...id=soundblasterThe creative forums are worse than useless. This question has been asked numerous times. Furthermore tech support has logged my call, and they said they know nothing about this and can't help.It seems that the creative programmers never tested it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveblue Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 It seems that the creative programmers never tested it.Thats what us poor sods are for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 thats why you dont buy creative maybe try out a kx driver...?http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/down.php?language=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levicki Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 thats why you dont buy creative maybe try out a kx driver...?http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/down.php?language=enkX is a no go under x64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulasacra Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 OP is a genius.. this saved me from going insaneNow the question is ..who is to blame that FIVE years from then, on a current sound card (X-Fi Titanium), there is exactly the same problem?Creative or Microsoft? I want to use more than 3 GB of RAM ffs its 2011!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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