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Product:
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum
Company: Creative Labs
Website: http://www.sblive.com/products/platinum/
Estimated Street Price:
Review By: Alex Harris
Installation,
Settings & Software
The
card itself is quite an easy operation to fit into the computer by just
rocking it back and forth gently into the free PCI slot. Once in place I
found it is a lot easier to connect the
cables up to the drive bay before screwing the drive bay into place,
just because once the bay is screwed into place,
it can be difficult to get the cable
that connects the bay and the card into place, mainly down to the fact
that the cables
that are inside the PC get in the way. Obviously this is down to the
manufacturer on how neatly they are organized. Once all the cables are
connected it is just a simple step to put the 4 screws,
that are provided in the package, in to secure the drive bay.
Once all the hardware is installed and you start up Windows again
it is detected as a PCI Audio Device and is a simple task of having the
disk in your DVD/CD Rom drive and selecting the correct drivers for it.
The LiveWare 3 disk (driver
disc) is suppose to be AutoPlay, but no matter how many times I tried to
get the cd to autoplay it wouldn't have it. I am not sure if it was the
disc being a pain/faulty or if this feature was sadly left out.
The
Software that comes with the package varies where you live. Here is a
table to show what software you get in the different areas:
| Americas |
Europe |
| Music |
Games |
Music |
Games |
| Sonic
Foundry® Sound Forge XP 4.0™ |
Descent
3 - Interplay |
Mixman™
Technologies Mixman Studio |
Aliens
versus Predator Full Version |
| ViaVoice
Special Edition |
Need
For Speed 4 - Electronic Arts |
Creative
Keytar™ |
Rollcage |
| Cakewalk
8.0 Gold |
Thief
: The Dark Project - Eidos Interactive |
Creative
Rhythmania™ |
|
| Mixman™
Technologies Mixman Studio |
Aliens
versus Predator Demos |
CuBasis
VST |
|
| Creative
Keytar™ |
|
Wavelab
Lite |
|
| Creative
Rhythmania™ |
|
Recycle
Lite |
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