User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX Creative Audio Software
- Contents
- Introduction
- About the Sound Blaster Audigy Card and external Audigy Drive
- Installing Hardware
- Installation Steps
- Step 1: Prepare the external Audigy Drive
- Step 2: Prepare your computer
- Step 3: Connect the Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy Extension cards
- Step 4: Install the Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy Extension cards
- Step 5: Install the external Audigy Drive
- Step 6: Connect the CD-ROM/DVD- ROM drive
- Step 7: Connect to power supply
- Connecting Related Peripherals
- Connecting Speaker Systems
- Connecting External Consumer Devices
- Positioning Your Speakers
- Installation Steps
- Installing Software
- Sound Blaster Audigy Applications
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Applications
- Creative Taskbar
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Online Quick Start (English only)
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Experience (English only)
- EAX ADVANCED HD™ Gold Mine Experience (English only)
- Creative Diagnostics
- Creative Surround Mixer
- Creative AudioHQ
- Creative WaveStudio
- Creative PlayCenter
- Creative Recorder
- Vienna SoundFont Studio
- Creative MiniDisc Center
- Creative RemoteCenter
- Creative Restore Defaults
- Using Applications
- General Specifications
- Troubleshooting & FAQ’s
- Problems Installing Software
- Problems with Sound
- Problems with File Transfers on Some VIA Chipset Motherboards
- Insufficient SoundFont Cache
- Problems With Joysticks
- Problems with Multiple Audio Devices
- Problems with Sound Blaster Live! Series or Sound Blaster PCI512 card
- Resolving I/O Conflicts
- Problems with Encore DVD Player (not included)
- Problems with Software DVD Player (not included)
- Problems with DV driver for Windows 98 SE/ 2000/Me/XP
- Problems with installing non- Creative applications
- Problems with Digital Devices
- Technical Support
Introduction iv
System
Requirements
Sound Blaster Audigy
card and external
Audigy Drive
❑ Genuine Intel
®
Pentium
®
266 MHz, AMD
®
K6 300 MHz or faster processor
❑
Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
❑
Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows 2000 or
Windows XP
❑
64 MB RAM (128 MB highly recommended)
❑
600 MB of free hard disk space
❑
Available PCI 2.1 compliant slot for the Sound Blaster Audigy card
❑
Available adjacent slot for the Audigy Extension card
❑
Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately)
❑
CD-ROM drive installed
SB1394 applications,
games and DVD
viewing
❑
Genuine Intel Pentium II 350 MHz, MMX or AMD 450 MHz processor/3DNow! for SB1394
applications or games
❑
SB1394 (works only on Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP)
❑
128 MB RAM for digital video (DV) capture and editing recommended, Ultra DMA hard disk with 1
GB workspace (ATA-100, 7,200 rpm type and 6 GB recommended) for DV applications
❑
Games: 128 MB RAM recommended, 3D graphics accelerator with at least 8 MB of texture RAM,
available 300–500 MB of free hard disk space
❑
DVD: At least second generation DVD-ROM drive with these recommended soft-DVD players:
InterVideo’s WinDVD 2000 or CyberLink’s PowerDVD 3.0 and above
❑
Internet Radio: Requires at least a 56 kbps modem and an active Internet connection to run the
application.
Other applications may have higher system requirements or may require a microphone. Refer to the
individual application’s online Help for details.