Creative Labs - Drivers update?

C When is Creative labs going to finally going to release a driver for Windows 7. The current driver was made available 3 months BEFORE 7 was released.
I don't know about anyone else, but I had to uninstall my XtremeGamer card because I kept getting BSOD while playing GAMES!!!!
Get on the ball people.

I want new drivers written exclusi'vely for Windows 7, I'm tired of the old drivers for Vista that are only partial compatible with Windows 7.
So far I have bought 2 headsets and soundcard for my Windows 7 system, I had to?RMA the headsets as the soundquality was horrible, and the soundcard issue is getting on my nerves, cant RMA the card but I?will go outside and smash it into thousands fragments and install a card from another manufacturer today. I have the Fatalty Pro card VS A brand new aluminium baseball bat.
I used to be a hardcore Creative fan, ever since their first card came that could handle speech in PC games. But luckily we have alot of other soundcards today.
I can recommend Razer headsets, they have very good soundquality, they are lightweight and doesnt break as easily as Creatives headsets. And Asus?soundcards, Xonar series is brutal?with great drivers. But this line will probably get edited because they dont want people to read that there are other brands that are better, and more reliable.
It's my personal oppinion, it doesnt have to reflect what other gamers think.
But if I was running a company like Creative I would make sure to have drivers for new OS the very same day they were released.
Over and out
Bye Creative, Hello Razer Headsets and Asus soundcards, no more bluescreens due to memoryleaks in Creatives drivers. Dont know how many times I've stresstested their drivers and they always fail on my system.

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Creative Labs Firmware Update: Zen Touch Overv

This message is to give Creative Labs a clear overview of what is missing/needs updating in the next firmware download.
) Touch Pad Sensitivity- The Touch Pad sensitivity settings need to be changed to provide a slower scrolling speed.
2) EAX Sound Features- Including EAX support just like in Xtra models.
3) Volume Synchronization- The ability to apply the same volume to all music.
I think all Creative Zen Touch users would have to agree that these are most important things to be updated.
Yes, it is possible to adjust to the sensitivity of the scroll pad, however for new users is somewhat a disappointment. Most Zen Touch users would agree that the Touch Pad is over sensiti've and that such a problem is one of the reasons users buy the iPod. Based on the reviews which potential consumers use to decide on a purchase the Zen Touch loses points to the iPod for having the over sensiti've Touch Pad. The comparison was very close and the Zen Touch lost by fraction of points which can easily be solved with an update.
The comparison result can be found here: http://www.mp3.com/iPod+vs.+Zen+Touch/stories/090.html
The Zen Touch lost by only 3 points, however the Zen Touch as everything over the iPod besides the little things such as the style, and clearly the Touch Pad.
The EAX feature is highly supported by Zen Touch users and more information an be found here:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...&message.id=88
Lastly, another key features that was included on the Xtra models, but not included in the Touch was the Volume Synchronization. This is key for Ripped and Download music. The Ripping volume is often times different from volume that is provided by the MP3 download sites. This is another feature that is worthy of upgrade.
Creative has a lot of potential right now, mainly because the features on the Zen Touch outperform the iPod yet Apple still has the market on MP3 Players. It would not hurt at all to update these features mainly because the iPod has been around longer so they obviously had more time to perfect the MP3 Player.
Thus, I encourage Creative Labs to take a lead on the MP3 market by releasing the next firmware with these updated features.
No matter how you look at it the Zen Touch should be leading the MP3 market.
With these small updates I think more consumers will purchase these players, thus increasing Creative revenue.
Please Creative you have heard loyal customers speak out, now it would be a great time to show loyalty and boost your customer service reputation from great to the best support.
If anyone agrees or support these firmware updates please post here.
Sincerely,
-Coolrulez
Thank you for listening and please update me on any confirmated releases of a firmware update.

Coolrulez wrote:
This message is to give Creative Labs a clear overview of what is missing/needs updating in the next firmware download.
) Touch Pad Sensitivity- The Touch Pad sensitivity settings need to be changed to provide a slower scrolling speed.
2) EAX Sound Features- Including EAX support just like in Xtra models.
3) Volume Synchronization- The ability to apply the same volume to all music.
I think all Creative Zen Touch users would have to agree that these are most important things to be updated.
well, I have to disagree with #3. You should actually be able to set the Sync Properties on the Program you use to put music onto the Touch anyhow. the Easiest way to do this without this, is putting all music in the same format, and in the same size. Unless the recording/file is already bad, that should do you well. I use WMP0 and all my files were ripped in the same Quality, and if not, they were automatically converted to fit the specifications I chose, which was WMA-28KBPS. And mostly it all sounds the same. Of course, the classical music I listen to quieter than the Rock I listen to, but thats normal.

No Standalone Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS Drivers Availble for Downl

I bought a new motherboard today and planned on updating my system with the new hardare. I cannot find my Audigy 2 ZS drivers CD and it does not look like there is a standalone driver for this card available on the Creative Labs website.
I have e-mailed tech support and awaiting a response. I have a feeling I will be forced to pay for a new drivers CD in order to get this card to work.
Thet fact that Creative Labs has this lack of support is appalling to me. Nvidia, MSI, Intel and every other component manufacturer in my system has drivers readily available for download on their website. It looks like Creative is trying to profit from the consumer and this makes me sick, very sick.
I am about to throw this card out the window and buy a Turtle Beach.
Creative can also expect a lot of bad press regarding this issue from me.
Ian Bell
CEO
Designtechnica.com

Ioman,
What's the model number off of the card? Also, could you get the inkstamp number from the underside of the card? This will help identify exactly which model of the card this is. Was this a retail card, or was this originally an OEM?
The reason I am asking this is that if the driver required a previous version of the drivers installed it would have given you an error stating that it couldn't find the required drivers. If it said that it couldn't find the card then it may be different problem altogether. I know for a fact (as I have installed this driver on a bare system before) that the EAX 4.0 Update will install without any other drivers installed (in fact one of the systems at my house is setup like this).
Jeremy
Edit: SB's advice is pretty good also... except I would suggest that instead of doing a manual install via device manager, browse the extracted folder to Audio/Drivers and run the program called CTzapxx.exe (which is the application for manual driver installation). Make sure to disable any Antivirus or Antispyware software prior to running this, as they can interfere in the installation of drivers.Message Edited by Jeremy-CL on 07-4-2005 0:02 AM

Old Creative Sound Blaster Live Drivers Update

.Old Creative Sound Blaster Li've Drivers Update? Hey Guys,
In 998 or 999 I installed Sound Blaster Li've! MP3+ in my MicronPC Pnetium? using Windows ME. Subsequently I upgraded my computers to Windows XP professional in 2006. At that timCreative Labs still had some drivers update for this device.
I only used it for listening to muic occassionally, so there is nourgent need for me to upgrade the sound card. But recently I had a spyware scan and since then my sound card stopped wroking. I tried to follow the Microsoft suggestion:
Start
All programs
Accesories
Enertainment
Volume Control
Options
Adv. Controls
Advanced Options
Play Control
Check out the box Digital output only
But I ould not find "advanced options by following the above sequence. I tried to load AudioHQU, but it said that my driver AHQTBU.exe needs to be reloaded.
I tried various web sites and I could not find a site that has the downolads for supporting this old iece of hardware
?Your kind assistance is appreciated
Regards,
mikeylia

Driver,
http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=&subCatID=206&prodID=573 &prodName=Sound%20Blaster%20Li've!%20MP3+%205.&sub CatName=Li've!&CatName=Sound+Blaster
link to ISO of original driver
disk if you need it,
http://files.filefront.com/SB+Audigy+Li'verar/;765938;/fileinfo.html

I need Drivers for Creative-Labs PCI128 PCI CT-4750 to windows 7 help!

hi, people, I need Drivers for? Creative-Labs PCI28 PCI CT-4750 to windows 7, I installs a few drivers but in the SO dont work very well, because this card have 2 out of audio and only sound out (green out), I think the problen is the drivres, I cant found, need help, im from venezuela, mi english its not good T_T
here the imagen: <img border="0" height="338" width="450" src="http://images.enet.com.cn/iflow/articleimage/200404/080872909934.jpg">
in the control panel > sound > only appears the opcion "mono and stereo"

Unless you can get the last XP driver from 2002 to install in compatibility mode, you can pretty much forget about it. That card is just way to old to get any kind of driver for Windows 7.

WHY is Creative Labs so backwa

Have used Creative Labs products since the original Soundblaster but am really becoming frustrated with the lack of decent software support their products have. If you misplace your original install disk you cannot use their products (or so it appears). Creative Labs is the ONLY hardware vender that I am aware of that only offers driver "UPDATES", no core drivers, for their "industry standard" soundcards. This is totally unsat and will only make me and, I am sure many others think about alternati'ves when it comes to their next sound card purchase. I would really like an official response to this post as to why no full driver is available for download making my Audigy2 soundcard a waste of powersupply energy in my computer.

Skoop,
I wasn't being tough or talking down to them, what I was doing was stating the facts of the situation. They had misread the description of "update" as meaning that it wasn't stand alone, and I was correcting the error. I also told them the exact file name of the stand alone driver that they would want (that would be the useful information that might help). The bluntness of my post is meant to help prevent the possible misinformation that can come from these types of posts (soon it becomes a "fact" that there are no stand alone drivers, which of course there are).
I will, in fact, dispute the "fact" that Creative sucks. In my experience as a both a customer and an employee of Creative I have personally installed and configured literally hundreds of our sound cards. In this I can honestly say that the vast majority have been simple installs and have worked exactly as they are supposed to. On the ones that experienced difficulty, most of the time it was a case of a hardware conflict or incompatibility (usually solved with a firmware, bios, or driver update for the conflicting hardware or the card). On the rest, it was a case of bad hardware (be it soundcard or motherboard) which is also easily fixed (be it with our warranty service or with the other company's).
I speak with relati'vely new computer users everyday and most of them find our cards to be easy to configure for basic uses. The areas where there can be confusion tends to be the more advanced features which just require the user make themselves more familiar with the terms used and what is being done. For this, we offer our knowledgebase and the mass knowledge of forum community.
JeremyMessage Edited by Jeremy-CL on -4-2005 0:46 PM

Creative Labs' statement on the crackling noises

finally the guys from Creative Labs have aknowledged the existing problems with creative x-fi and nf4 chipsets. you can read all about it on the official statement over in the creative forums:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=61926
one of the systems tested included the diamond plus mobo.
read all about the findings, and maybe everyone who has a problem will be able to solve it.
good luck guys.

Quote from: Markoul on 18-May-06, 02:29:04
I have reported this thread to warp2search website.
Don't be surprised if you see suddenly 2000 views in this thread here.
After all our forum is famous
Manolis aka Markoul
Yep... Showing up in The Inquirer for couple of days means we've hit the Big Time!
I for one am not sorry to see Creative get their comeuppance.
I've never had any of the drivers that were boxed w/ a card on CD work properly - I always have had to update 'em immediately upon installation & then dig through their website for a driver package that wasn't bundled with their incredibly buggy "bloatware" that masquerades as utilities.
I'm just glad to have my Audigy ZS working halfway decent, but I still suspect it's drivers are responsible for at least 30% of any BSOD's that I occasionally get.
I'd be really PO'ed if I was struggling with an X-fi...

Creative Labs: A Boy's St

Hi everyone,
I came to these forums after I heard of the recent developments from Creative Labs. After reading what many people wrote, I?thought I would share?the story of how Creative became a part of my life.
I was twelve years old when I first learned of Creative. I had saved up enough money over a year and a half?and finally bought a 486 DX-2 50Mhz computer. I cannot tell you how many lawns I mowed and dri'veways I shoveled. Take a minute to remember what prices were like in the early 990s and you'll understand why it took so long. I would have been able to get a sound card included with the computer had I saved for another month or two, but I was twelve - I wasn't going to wait anymore!
Two?months after that purchase, I had saved up enough money to buy a sound card and speakers. Finally my system would be complete!? I started looking for a sound card and heard from many people that SoundBlasters were the only kind I should consider. Thus, the SoundBlaster 6 was my first sound card. Indeed, it was the first component I ever installed in a computer and it went flawlessly.
Because "Soundblaster" compatibility was important back then, I purchased only Creative products. Even as a teenager, I noticed the bloatware that was starting to get bundled with the drivers. I also noticed that the quality of the drivers was deteriorating, but I was always able to make them work well most of the time. There were a few blue screens of death, but I just shrugged and rebooted.
As we approach the present, it is clear to me the trend I noticed has reached a breaking point. I was stunned when I saw that Creative had the nerve to tell someone who was doing their job for them to stop. For this reason, my sound card has been placed in the garbage and I am using the onboard audio included with my Shuttle system. On a side note, installing those drivers was a cakewalk compared to some of the installations I went through with Creative products.
It is obvious to me, someone who has only been without a Creative sound card for two months, that the company either has no idea what they are doing or does not care. I will not purchase another Creative product again, nor recommend that anyone do so, until new management is present and is turning the company around. This includes making higher quality, less bloated, more stable drivers that activate all of the features present on the card and work on all operating system in the same way.
I have signed the petition (link below), and encourage people to do the same. I know perfectly well that a petition is unlikely to change the policies of management, but it is at the very least one more way to make my displeasure heard. I am number 26 on the petition, and I hope many more will sign so that the extent of their customers' displeasure becomes known.
That is my Creative story, and it is a sad one. I am sad to see a company so capable of producing excellent hardware fall into the trap that is poor management.
To Creative: Please turn around your company and realize that hardware and software must work together seamlessly. Please reorganize your management team and put in place individuals who understand how to build relationships with customers. Please realize that people who pay you money have taken the time to earn it and are worthy of higher levels of support for their products. And finally, please recognize that punishing a member of the community who picked up slack where you left off is a horrendous way to build customer relationshi
ps.
Indeed, that is how you are losing mine.
I wish everyone on here the best, and thank you for reading this little story. I was told growing up that words can move mountains, so I encourage everyone to leave some words of their own.
Thank you,
Tim
Link: http://www.petitiononline.com/crtvlabs/petition.html

Creative was infringing upon Aureal's patents, not the other way around. Yet is was Creative who sued Aureal for patent infringement.
See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureal
On March 5th, 998, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Labs">Creative Labs[/url] sued Aureal for patent infringement. Aureal countersued because they believed Creative was guilty of patent infringement. After numerous lawsuits Aureal won a favorable ruling in December 999, which vindicated Aureal from these patent infringement claims, but the legal costs were too high and Aureal filed for [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy">bankruptcy[/url]. On September 2st, 2000, Creative acquired Aureal's assets from its [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_trustee">bankruptcy trustee[/url] for US$ 32 million. The purchase included patents, trademarks, other property, as well as a release to Creative from any infringement by Creative of Aureal's intellectual property including [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A3D">A3D[/url]. The purchase effecti'vely eliminated Creative's only competition in the gaming audio market. It also eliminated any requirements for Creative to pay past or future royalties as well as damages for products which incorporated Aureal's technology.
See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundstorm
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Technology">Creative's[/url] acquisition of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensaura">Sensaura[/url] in late 2003 put a halt to development of drivers for Sensaura-based sound hardware, including the code that ran on the SoundStorm APU. Further development of SoundStorm hardware and drivers would have been considerably more costly for Nvidia without middleware support from Sensaura.

CREATIVE LABS READ THIS MICROPHONE ISSUE PLEASE!!!

i am having the exact same problem and i'm no compu-dummy .. this soundblaster li've 24-bit card just ruined my studio i have built in my house. i have so much equipment and i can't do anything with it because of this card i just bought. i really want it to work so bad but i cannot find the solution to my problem anywhere. i have researched high and low. i have read countless.. and by countless i mean hundreds upon hundreds of forum posts on the google boards, the creative boards, music boards, internet media boards, and boards that don't even have a purpose.. of thousands of people complaining that their soundblaster li've cards WILL NOT RECORD.
to be more specific, the card plays audio fine. plug an /8" speaker cord into the audio out.. and sound comes out of the speaker. plug a mic (and i've tried 4 different mics) directly into the mic in or line in, and you get a flat-line in windows sound recorder (as well as 4 or 5 more sophisticated programs i've tried).
my system is very comparable to the systems of most people having this problem: windows XP, P4 w/ HT, former sound usage (in my case onboard.. and yes, i've disabled my onboard in the BIOS), 52mb DDRam, fx 5900 video card w/ 28 mb, DirectX 9.0, Microsoft Service Pack , and a nice little useless at the moment CreativeLabs Li've! 24-bit soundcard.
every posting (if it has a response) is receiving the same responses that we've all tried: is input set to mic? is your mic input turned up? are there audio device conflicts in device manager? have you tried reinstalling? have you tried a different mic? is your computer turned on?
myself and countless others have double checked and triple checked all of these.. it is not the obvious but it is definatly a problem if more than a handful of people are experiencing it. i tried the creative tech support number.. the rep's only idea was to return my card for a new one.. i'm sorry, i don't think it's the card.. because there is also a few thousand people that the card does work for, while at the same time mine doesn't as well as a few thousand others.. i'm not going to waste my time hiking back to Best Buy because that simply isn't the problem.. it's too common of a problem, but it is a problem that i have not seen addressed by Creative in all of my searching.
is there anybody out there who has a clue what could possibly be causing this. please don't let this be yet another posting that gets response saying.. "duuuuh.. ummm... did you press record on sound recorder?" and then the post dies out and falls into the oblivion of other posts just like it.
please for god's sake is there a moderator or an executi've or a janitor at Creative Labs who knows the solution? because please, post it so i can create a few hundred websites linking directly to it ending the suffering of budding musicians and gamers such as myself.
please, help.. i will be monitoring this post for any response. if any further information is needed, it will be posted. if you want to know the serial number of my mouse.. i will post it.. if you want to know the name i intend to give to my first born.. i will post it.. just please.. help
p.s. i registered my CreativeLabs soundcard today ( day after purchase) .. therefore i am special
p.s.s. i kick ass at music writing.. check me out http://www.internetdj.com/collapse (the comedy section is especially good :P) AND ALSO THE REASON I NEED MY RECORDING FIXED!!!

"PS: In the future please remove advisor name before posting email from Creative on the forums."
Thank you for your input, Jason.
Here is my latest e-mail from Creative who still doesn't seem to understand that we've tried the obvious.
Dear Customer,Thank you for your reply. It seems like the recording source has notbeen configured. Let us try this: Go to Start, Programs, Accessories,Entertainment, Volume Control. Click on Options, Properties, Recordingand check the Microphone box. Check the box Microphone to select it. Then open your recording program and select the recording source. Try torecord and see how it works.For faster service please reply with previous correspondence whenreplying to this email.Best Regards,VERY FRIENDLY CREATIVE TECH WHO'S NAME WILL NOT BE SHARED WITH ANYBODY (438)Technical SupportCreative Labs Americas"Get Creative"
Hopefully this will help some of you, I have actually found the solution to my own problem, though it is a little twisted and doesn't seem to apply to other's scenarios. Here's what I did.
) Completely removed all Creative software/drivers
2) Flashed my BIOS. I don't think it needed to be flashed, just resetted. But I flashed it anyway.
3) Rebooted and installed only the Creative drivers and required software (none of the little extras like mixer or CD-Burner or any of that.. just the diagnostics tool and whatnot)
4) Plugged my mic into Line-In (the blue /8" jack on the far right on my model), selected mic (not line-in) as the recording source.
Voila!! I'm getting crystal-clear recordings and sound! I kind of wish Creative had helped me along with this instead of sending me emails suggesting procedures i specifically stated I had already tried. But you can't have everything. A nice piece of hardware and good customer service is a little much to ask for.
As a whole. I give Creatives help in this matter a 4 out of 0. And all 4 points are awarded solely because response times from my e-mail were quite satisfactory. It just would have been nice if they had researched my problem a little more instead of assuming I was having the same problem as compu-clue-less idiots.
I will continue to monitor this forum for a while and will be glad to offer any knowledge I have gained through this past week of hell to anyone who is still having problems after trying the steps mentioned in the techs emails, and the steps I took myself.
Best Regards!
http://www.internetdj.com/collapse

Creative Labs or Logitech for Notebooks?

I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 notebook, so I'm comparing the Logitech Notebook Pro and the Creative Labs Live webcam. Does anyone have any information comparing these two or experience that they could forward along? Thanks.

I have a similar problem. I bought a Vision M for Christmas from Buy.com. I didn't realize they did not handle the warranty work
so I contacted Creative about month after the 90 day warranty was up. I sent in a request for assistance and got almost the exact same email that this person did about his daughter's battery. So, I emailed again. I got the EXACT same email from a person named "Lin". They must have so many problems with these things locking up and lack of firmware updates that they just hit a button and respond to people. THis is NOT customer service. I like the other person will try to find 250 people to influence, and not in a positi've way for Creative. Customer support should be more than just firing off form emails.

Creative Labs SoundBlaster PCI128 sound-card software prob

Blast it all! Where can I find the necessary software to make my Creative Labs PCI28 sound card work? (I hope that "Blast it all!" doesn't offend... )
The background
I bought a used PC from a PC-idiot (a PC-idiot being a PC user who chucks out floppy-disk and CD-ROM software integral to the PC ? I will hazard a guess that there are a lot of these types out there!), and what's worse, the idiot had "ripped out" much of the installed software rather than uninstalling it properly, with the result that the PC ran very unstably, requiring a lengthy start-up procedure in order to compensate for the ripped-out files (start-up often crashed and had to be restarted). In the end I had to run fdisk and rebuild the software system. I took the trouble to save the installed Creative program under Program Files, not that this could be inserted into C:\Program Files of course, but in order to know what I should see when I eventually found the proper software and got it installed. But finding the proper software has proven to be a hard nut to crack, which is why I bring the problem up here...
My PC has two Creative Labs cards, a SoundBlaster PCI28 card (CT4700) and a PC-DVD Encore Dxr-3 card (CT7240). I found software for both (the latter only with the help of Creative Labs' technical staff) on Creative Labs' download site, but the driver application that eventually got my PCI28 card to work (some wouldn't even do that much) has snags to it, with the result that my sound card doesn't work properly. The problem is that the CL software download was only an update, and was also devoid of waveset files. The MIDI wavesets cannot load, so this parameter is missing from the installed sound mixer (this problem is well-known and is in fact listed in CL's Knowledgebase under the title "Error ? Can not load MIDI Wavesets, MIDI Playback has been disabled").
Unfortunately the "fix" suggested there subsumes that the user has access to the original sofware medium (floppy or CD-ROM) so that the complete program can be reinstalled. Which software I don't have, thanks to the PC-idiot from whom I bought this used PC (actually I bought it from his son). The driver-file download that works with the CT4700 (this is the only one that I found that could even come close to working), a certain e28up9x.exe, is only an update, as I said above, and although it is touted as a "stand-alone" application that works with the CT4700, as an update, it is no substitute for the original program itself (it won't stand on its own). What I need ? and cannot find ? is the original program itself.
To the matter at hand, then
In the hope that somebody out there (CL staff are more than welcome to participate!) might recognize the animal in question and can therefore point me to a relevant download, I list here the Creative folder that was installed under C:\Program Files on my harddisk before I formattted it (I will try to list the contents of this folder so that it reflects the actual hierarchy ? for example, all folders listed under a plus sign are subfolders to the main folder (or subfolder) in question):
CREATIVE
+ CTsnd
Bitmap (contains a .bmp and a .txt file)
DOSdri've (contains a lot of exe files, most beginning with "ap": apconfig, apinit, -legacy,
-load, -mixer, -test)
Help (full of ? what else? - help files)
Media (full of MS Media Player files ending in ".mid")
+ Program (the meat and potatoes full of exe files, a handful of which begin with "ct"
and end with "32" (before the ".exe" suffix): ctcd32.exe, ctmidi32.exe,
ctwav32.exe, ctwave32.exe, remote32.exe, sndole32.exe, as well as some
dll files, all ending in "32.dll"
Plugins (three dll files)
+ Product Registration (contains only the subfolder English)
English (empty)
Share DLL (contains only one file: ctres32.dll)
Yours,
Blastit

Too much bass? I always end up turning mine up.
But anyway, to do this you'll want to do a little equalisation. Make sure you've got the full application suite for Vista (ie: not just the audio console on Creative's site):
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=0493
And then go to the equaliser in the main Creative control console. You'll eventually find something like this:
[img"]http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2720/equalizer2gk.png">
What this does is allow you to adjust the volume of specific frequencies in the music: the slider on the left adjusts the deepest frequency, and the slider on the right adjusts the highest.
The best way to do general equalisation is to do it gradually. Since you want to take out the bass a little, what you'll want to do is drag the left-most slider down to something like -5dB. Then, drag the one to the right of that down to about -4dB, then the next one to -3dB, etc. Once you hit 0dB you should be at roughly the middle of the equalizer (mid-tone frequencies).
If this sounds confusing, just drag some of the sliders up and down a bunch while music is playing and you'll immediately see what's happening.
Although there is also a bass and treble thing in Windows and such, all these do is adjust about fi've sliders at once. They can be pretty useful, but they're basically just watered-down versions of a proper equaliser. I believe the Creative software's bass/treble options also are unavailable in game mode.
Note that you can also bring out the higher frequencies by doing the same thing over on the other side; this will make your sound a lot crisper, and might even negate the need to lower the bass since you'll be able to hear that higher detail without turning the volume up so much.
Although there're endless possibilities with equalisation (EQ), the best rule of thumb for general use is to make sure the centre is at 0dB, and then adjust gradually outwards from there.

ID tags that Creative Labs uses doesn't seem to be the normal ID T

I'm sure that many already realize that what you see and what changes you make in Creative MediaSource do not translate to the ID Tags on the files themselves, therefore when you utilize ITunes or some other system, the Creative labs tags do not follow. This is particularly frustrating for people like me that make changes to Genre.
The question i have, has anyone found a way to translate the Tag information from Creative Media Source to the ID tag on the files themselves? I've tried one or two to no avail.

Basically, anytime you make a change to the Track Information in Creative Media Source or Nomad Explorer, (the album title, the artist, the genre, etc), it does not update the ID tags of any form so that the mp3 or wma files themselves do not carry the information changes you make. If you decide to view your files in ITunes, Windows Media Player or even re-import the files into Creative Media Source, it does not contain your information. Basically, you can never go elsewhere than Creative Media Source once you've edited the information in media source. I think Creative Labs did it on purpose so that people who acti'vely make changes in their Media Source can never go to another application or god forbid another media player.

No creative labs product detec

I have went to creative labs site and downloaded the drivers for soundblaster li've and when I tried to install them it came back but when I boot up it recognizes that here is a new pci card

Remove the card and reboot.
put back in and see how ya go.

Win 7 64-bit Creative XtremeMusic Drivers

)Win 7 64-bit Creative XtremeMusic Drivers, So I just got the 64-bit RTM from MSDNAA, I went to go get my drivers from creative for my XtremeMusic card. I downloaded and installed the driver listed which was an auto-updater. When I go to run it, it tells me I don't have any creative devices connected. What should I do? Are there direct links to the drivers to get around the auto-updater? I had the RC installed and it worked just fine.... Thanks in advanced!
This is what I get...
[img]http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/859/capture2kp.png[/img]
[img]http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/255/capturewf.png[/img]

- http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-...09/td-p/527485
Working fine on my XM.

Are Creative Lab Webcams compatible to Dell Computers?

I have a Dell with XP Media Center. I just purchased a Logitech and I get that dreaded blue screen or error. I called Logitech 5 x's and they told me their webcams aren't compatible to Media Center. They recommended that I just return it.
The only thing is Creative Lab is the same company as Logitech and I was wondering if anyone knows of if it's going to have the same prob. If so does anyone know of a brand that is compatible to Dell?

Most USB wifi adapters require third-party drivers, and few of them have Mac drivers available. You're likely to be better off with a PC Card slot wifi adapter like one of the following:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/aria_extreme.html
http://www.macwireless.com/html/products/wirelesscards/11g_11bcards/11gPCCard.php
http://www.macsense.com/product/networking/wpe800.html
These cards all use the same chipset as Apple's, and work transparently with Apple's own software.
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