Connecting Creative
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Connecting Creative
When you are playing your DVD movies or games:
If your Encore Dxr2 or MPEG2 decoder card is connected to an external Dolby Digital (AC- 3) decoder such as Desktop Theater 5.1, either:
●Disconnect the Sound Blaster Live! card’s Aux In connector from the decoder card’s Audio Out connector (Highly recommended),
OR
●Mute the Aux Input in (Surround Mixer) or the Creative Mixer’s Play Control view.
If your decoder card is not connected to an external Dolby Digital
1.Connect the Sound Blaster Live! card’s Aux In connector to the decoder card’s Audio Out connector.
2.Select (that is, unmute) the Aux Input in (Surround Mixer or) the Creative Mixer’s Play Control view.
You may need to select this configuration when playing certain DVD games with Dolby Digital video clips.
If you:
●Get distorted or no audio at all (Reason: Your
OR
●Are playing games in Windows 98 Second Edition
do the following:
1.Connect the CD In connector to the Analog Audio jack of the
2.In (Surround Mixer or) the Play Control view of Creative Mixer, unmute the CD Audio device and mute the CD Digital device.
If you connect to the Digital Audio and Analog Audio jacks of the same
To open (Surround Mixer) or the mixer, bring your pointer to the top of the screen to display Creative Launcher, click the (Sound Blaster Live! Value or) AudioHQ tab, and then click the (Surround Mixer or) Mixer icon.