Soundblaster live! 5.1 CD

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Tricky

I was gonna do that until i saw it was 533mb! (Wonders if NTL will let me go over bandwidth?) I'll see what a zipped version would be...

EDIT: 487mb! (doh!)

What's on the CD???
I had one but all it had was a few apps like a media player and other sound tools.

[Russ]

Originally Posted by darkangel

just in case u haven't got it sorted yet you can d/l the latest drivers hereu can get the full cd on edonkey ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp2...00/SP20920.exe

Thanks, but as I've said twice now....I don't need the drivers!!!!

[swoop101]

Which part of the app do you want Russ?
It may be possible to get the individual bits.

[Russ]

I'm after the control panel really.

[td444]

Just download the items such as playcenter and surround mixer - then download WinRAR. When WinRAR is installed, right drag the playcenter + surroundmixer + other creative setup items. Extract the contents from it, and run the setup program directly

Figgured this out as I lost my Audigy 5.1 CD - Works a treat

[td444]

Oh and dont right drag then let go together, just one self-extracing at a time - otherwise extraction feature that WinRAR offers may not pop up.

[martinell]

i got the live drive pack from the creative site a couple a months ago and all the software was in the package. getting hold of the right cd can be a real pain though. got 4 diff cd's sat here and they all different cards but all claim to be for the "live! 5.1" get the chip number and i'll have a dig about

[Russ]

Originally Posted by td444

Just download the items such as playcenter and surround mixer - then download WinRAR. When WinRAR is installed, right drag the playcenter + surroundmixer + other creative setup items. Extract the contents from it, and run the setup program directly

Figgured this out as I lost my Audigy 5.1 CD - Works a treat

Cool...but where do I get the playcentre from? Can't see that on the Soundblaster site.

[td444]

Originally Posted by Russ D

Cool...but where do I get the playcentre from? Can't see that on the Soundblaster site.

Give me a minute, ill find the URL's...

[td444]

Why use winrar you say? The self-extracting exe is using an API to have a look for previous versions - the setup packages for the actual software doesnt do this. Hence winrar works for my Audigy. Not sure about Live! but I dont see why not.

The driver pack that has AudioHQ and Playcenter - Use WinRAR on this!
http://files.europe.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/Others/1972/LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe

Playcenter - WinRAR this too!
http://files.europe.creative.com/man...PP_3_02_70.exe

Playcenter update - Another WinRAR job
http://files.europe.creative.com/man...PP_3_02_71.exe

[Russ]

Each time I download any of the above, it can't continue because "install cannot find any previous versions of Creative Sounblaster software"....

[td444]

Originally Posted by Russ D

Each time I download any of the above, it can't continue because "install cannot find any previous versions of Creative Sounblaster software"....

Dont make me quote myself. Read the paragraph above please :o

[Russ]

**hand hovers tantalisingly over ban button**

("No Russ.....not yet.....forgive him..........")

[swoop101]

Russ, I am uploading a copy of playcenter to my webspace.
I will PM you the url when it is done

[Russ]

Hey thanks but not neccessary - I think I might have found the solution, will report back here.....