Sound Blaster 5.1

iBringPain · Post by **iBringPain** » Sun Oct 15, 2000 10:48 am

I know this is not the forum for it but I would like to know if anyone has bought this sound card and did it come with "liveware 4.0" drivers?

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Pest Control · Post by **Pest Control** » Tue Oct 17, 2000 2:54 pm

I have the X-Gamer. I have never heard of SB 5.1. Are you talking about the Creative Labs 5.1 speakers? I was also unaware of the existence of liveware 4.

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Tue Oct 17, 2000 3:06 pm

I think iBringPain is talking about the new SB Live card, which I don't think is even out yet.

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Tue Oct 17, 2000 4:51 pm

moving to computer hardware forum....

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Tue Oct 17, 2000 6:14 pm

The SB Live 5.1 is already out fellas. It looks pretty fat and would go awesome with my Dolby Digital Decoder and monster speakers. Can't wait to get it:

www.soundblaster.com/products/platinum5.1/

Pest Control · Post by **Pest Control** » Tue Oct 17, 2000 6:40 pm

oh I know about that...I don't refer to it as 5.1 though.

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Tue Oct 17, 2000 9:18 pm

Originally posted by Prey521:
The SB Live 5.1 is already out fellas. It looks pretty fat and would go awesome with my Dolby Digital Decoder and monster speakers. Can't wait to get it:

www.soundblaster.com/products/platinum5.1/

R u referring to a consumer DD 5.1 receiver?

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Tue Oct 17, 2000 9:39 pm

Whoops, I meant receiver, not decoder. I have the regular Sound Blaster Live Value hooked up to a Sony DD/DTS/THX Receiver. It sounds awesome, especially when playin EAX games and watchin DVD's, but with the new SB Live 5.1, it would really kick ass.

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Pest Control · Post by **Pest Control** » Wed Oct 18, 2000 2:41 am

Originally posted by Prey521:
Whoops, I meant receiver, not decoder. I have the regular Sound Blaster Live Value hooked up to a Sony DD/DTS/THX Receiver. It sounds awesome, especially when playin EAX games and watchin DVD's, but with the new SB Live 5.1, it would really kick ass.

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It's just a version of the SB Live Platinum.

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Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Wed Oct 18, 2000 3:16 am

It's not JUST a version Pest. This baby has a built in Dolby Digital Decoder. If your a modest PC user then you dont need it, but for a hard core DVD'r like me, it totally rocks. And when games start shipping with 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound, you'll really see what this baby can do.

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Thu Oct 19, 2000 9:50 pm

I can't tell from their page, is the decoding done thru hardware or software? Someone told me it was done thru software. If it is, WTF is CL thinking. Besides this product is useless as only movies r currently encoded in DD 5.1 (not music or games).

Their site is misleading:

From Creative's site:
Sound Blaster® Live!™ Platinum 5.1 provides the best Dolby Digital 5.1 audio entertainment on your PC for movies, music, and games

How can u enjoy DD 5.1 sound in games and music when neither r not encoded in DD 5.1?

woody · Post by **woody** » Thu Oct 26, 2000 10:15 pm

your right about the new sbl card i picked one up the other day,even comes with full versions of unreal tournament,mdk2,deus ex. the card thumps pretty hard.it is 5.1,but liveware is 3.0