On 29 May 2002 at 16:57, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > >moot point). But the creative drivers for the audigy are not very > > >good. SB Live! is therefor better. > > > > Hardly. The Audidy is the step up from the SBLive!, and has > > effectively EAX3 and several other features which while you can do > > with a SBLive! eat CPU power. > > > > I agree, tho, that unless you're a musician or a gamer (or have lots > > of money), get a SBLive! value. > > > > I like my Audigy, but the drivers were a BITCH to install (or, rather, > to update)
Same for the SBLive! > , and yes that is a contextually-appropriate use of > profanity. Driver installation aside, it works beautifully in Win98. I had some trouble with DOS emulation, but i had an early SbLive! card, and they did. > I've heard it's buggy in WinXP, though. (In my case it was replacing > a Turtle Beach Montego, so almost anything would have been an > improvement.) I use 2k and it's wonderful. Andy Dawn Falcon
