XFI pci music 0460 - Scratchy Sounds in Windows 7 64 workaround

I love my soundblaster. I've done so much with it in XP, great card, great software.
I ran into an issue with both drivers in Win764 in that it would sound horrible and scratchy and barely play system sounds. I read a very obscure post that said if you had 4 or more gigs of Ram there may be a memory addressing issue, and you would have to use msconfig to limit the available system ram to something under four..suggesting 3990. As i only have 4 gigs of RAM, i did just that, and everything sounds great. So there it is, in case anyone else has trouble.
Start / type msconfig, and lauch it. On the Boot.ini tab there is an 'Advanced Options" button. Look for /MAXMEM and put a check mark there, and give it a value of 3990. OK your way out and reboot and the card works fine. This may not be preferable for anyone with say 16 gig of ram or something, but even so, it will still get you by. In my case i only have 4 gig of ram total, so no real loss.
A little tricky being used to XP and trying to manage it under Win7. Especially for the sound setup for 5.1 audio, but once you get the hang of it, it's just fine. Win7 is in control of speaker configuration, and not the creative console. But once it work, everything works great...5.1 in vegas etc. ALL GOOD!
I love my xfi. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem, or if theirs has been good. Mine came with a Dell machine, so the issue may be an oem thing. I can't tell if it is or not. Either way, it works fine now. anyone else?

C The 'solution' you provided only touches a very small fraction of the problems with Creative sound cards. Only very unexperienced users may not control which sound card is choosen by their operating system. Many of us work with PCs for decades, being used to modify the registry and so on. The drivers of Creative are of an unexcusable low quality.

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NRe: Sound only plays in Front left speak on Windows 7 with Xfi Extreme Music? You will need to have the Creative Console Launcher which will let you have CMSS-3d or Creative Multichannel Surround Sound. You can find the newest version for your card here......
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=094"]http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=094[/url]
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<a rel="nofollow" href="http://rapidshare.com/files/234436040/XFI_SupportPack_2_0.exe"]http://rapidshare.com/files/234436040/XFI_SupportPack_2_0.exe[/url]
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