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
Using Applications 5-2
Using Applications
Sound Blaster Audigy offers you high-quality multimedia playback, digital entertainment, content
creation capability, Internet entertainment and gaming. The following pages tell you which applications
would best suit your needs.
Multimedia
Playback
Watching DVDs
You may enjoy 5.1 Dolby Digital sound output from DVD movies encoded with Dolby Digital sound in
one of two ways with Sound Blaster Audigy.
1. Output the encoded Dolby Digital signal to an external Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder; such as the
Creative Inspire 5700 speaker system, Cambridge SoundWorks DTT2500, PlayWorks DTT2500, or
DTT3500 Digital speaker systems, or an AV receiver with a Dolby Digital decoder.
2. Dolby Digital (AC-3) sound can also be decoded by Sound Blaster Audigy and sent out as analog
audio through Line Out 1, Line Out 2, and Digital/Analog jacks of the sound card.
In both cases you will need a second generation DVD-ROM drive, and a software DVD player (such as
InterVideo's WinDVD2000 or Cyberlink's PowerDVD 3.0). S/PDIF Output must be enabled in the audio
properties of the software DVD player so that the Dolby Digital signal can be sent to Sound Blaster
Audigy.
If the Dolby Digital signal is to be decoded by an external decoder, AC-3 decoding must be disabled in
the Speaker - Settings section of Surround Mixer. For more information, refer to the Creative Surround
Mixer online Help.
Some software DVD decoders/
players cannot decode up to 5.1
channels, but can support SPDIF
output. In such cases, enable the
SPDIF output function to allow
Sound Blaster Audigy to decode
the Dolby Digital signal.