I had the X-Gamer in high school back in 2000. Great card, came with some games that took advantage of EAX2: Giants - Citizen Kabuto, Deus-Ex GotY Edition, Need for Speed III, and Descent III.
For balls to the wall period accuracy, you could also track down a Cambridge Soundworks DTT3500 which utilised the digital DIN connector on the additional "useless" backplate. Before HDMI, it was the only way to get PCM multichannel sound in the consumer space. My dad bought both the Live 5.1 with livedrive and the DTT3500 when I was 13, it was the most epic thing at the time.
These Live! cards with the front I/O panel were something I desperately wanted to have when I was 13-14 years old. By the time I started working and was able to afford one of these myself, my interests had shifted to other aspects of PC building so this wasn't on my list of wants anymore.
Personally my favorite card of this type so far is the YMF744 which is commonly availible on ebay for affordable prices and even new in box. But its cool seeing a live done justice in a all creative pc like this. The yamaha card though has EAX2.0 and A3D 1.0 support. A great built in midi synth (depends on the win driver but works in dos prompts). No different revisions so its easy to get drivers. And best of all genuine yamaha OPL3 with high compatibility in native dos even in newer builds that do not natively support ddma or when slowdown utilities are used. Highly recommend it for future builds if you never tried it before.
Ahhh, mate! Such a great card! And yeah, I had a bulk version back in the day. And I always wanted to have that bay for extra stuff. And those sounds are a freakin' trip to the 90s :) Great vid! Loved it!
I'm building a Windows 98SE retro computer myself, and an original SB Live 5.1 is almost obligatory. I would also love to add a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 PCI card to complement a GeForce 5xxx AGP card, unfortunately I only have two Voodoo 3 AGP and one Voodoo 2 PCI that I found on old computers, so I'm going with the Voodoo 2 PCI for now, otherwise I would have to build a second computer for the Voodoo 3 AGP alone!
I had one back in the day - still have it. Replaced an AWE32 with this. Now pair it with a Matrox G400 Max and happy days. Just checked - mine was the earlier one - the LiveDrive IR - has smaller midi ports (came with adapters) but also had IR port and remote. Was with my Live 5.1 Platinum edition iirc. Do have a couple of Live 5.1 cards but as you say - the card only affair was pretty common and oem'd to the compaq's and Dells of the world. Fun note the AWE32 had a ew revisions and some didn't like Compaq computers - just mad how two fully working cards and only one will work in the Compaq - that was a fun diagnositic I recall of the time.
You must be the only one to show something about Creative Live Drive II in the whole YT - would love to see what you've done with it? Maybe a video, pliz ☺
I had the Live value card...it didn't have the live drive...it was a set that came with the Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 speakers....it was quite a nice setup.
I am in process to build my dreaming retro battlestation with a K6-II 475ACK that I got, a DFI motherboard which I might bought soon, any decent soundcard (I don't care who's the manufacturer, I only want interesting MIDI sound samples), 512 MB, and many other cool things. And of course dual booting Win 98 and 2000. A sweet rig.
I had the basic Live back in the day. It's follow up I still have. The Audigy 2 ZS Platiunum Pro. With a bay like yours. Too bad I don't have a PC anymore with a PCI slot.
Ótimo video! IMO uma das melhores placas de som para o windows 98. Os drivers VXD podem ser um bocado problemáticos por vezes e a compatibilidade DOS não é 100% perfeita, mas tirando isso é uma excelente placa com uma decente qualidade de som. Offtopic: Não pude deixar de notar que o teu Windows está em portugues mas no entanto o explorer/barra de tarefas estão em inglês. É um bocado estranho.
@JCFB Provavelmente instalou um patch em Inglês, alguns incluem um explorer.exe actualizado, hoje em dia muitos patches são dificeis de encontrar em PT-PT...
I'm afraid that this *is* an OEM card. The clue is in the first two characters of the model number. Live!'s with CT were Creative's retail cards, and SB indicated OEM cards. This was not the case for Audigy however. Creative's own support page (Solution ID: 10846) specifies the SB0100 is a "Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Compaq/IBM/HP (No AC-3decode)".
@@DeckardGames Having come back to this again today, your video does show an SB0060. For some reason I had it in my head that you were using an SB0100. Where did I get that from? Ignore me - it was very late last night when watching this. Also, I read elsewhere that SB on Live! cards indicates 5.1 channel support and CT indicates 4.1 and below - maybe a fun fact?
If you like creative stuff... have you heard of the Blaster PC case? I think it was a barebones pc kit, slot 1 motheboard... I almost bought one but Tiger Direct didn't fill my order
@@DeckardGamescathode ray dude CRD mentioned that case on one of his latest videos about the Infra CD-ROM kits, If I ever heard about these cases I can't remember it 😅.
Good vids. But what year is it???i mean what year you made this video? What ever.....but SOUND BLASTER is one of the best soundcard i ever know. Bravo....
Watching this video literally sounds better listening though my Acer laptop perched 2ft away from my monitor than my soundblaster 20+ years ago did , im so confused
So, what would be some use cases for that front I/O panel? It looks cool and I sure want one, but does it do anything if you're just using the card to listen to stuff, not recording or anything like that? Would plugging headphones in that front jack get you better sound than just plugging them in the sound card directly?
Hi everybody! I got this audio card + the entire audio system (5 speakers and 1 subwoofer), back in 2001 it was a present. Everything is mounted on a Pentium III, which today only works partially, so I can't use this super audio it as I would like. My goal would be to use this system to listen to music and watch movies or TV series, and the old computer couldn't handle it. In your opinion, is there a way to use this sound card on a modern notebook or computer, for example with external connections of some kind?
Yess i'm watching this video using the same setup live drive 2 & the creative Cambridge sound works (5 speakers and 1 subwoofer) using the digital din connector, works in perfection :) on a pc windows 10 sounds awesome!!! for everything fully functional even my guitar is plugged in to the live drive.
Hey could you pleeease make a disc image of the driver CD and upload it to like archive or something? Been trying forever to get my Live Drive II to work...
This card was HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. As it was advertised as entry level gear for music creation. That's why it had MIDI, SPDIFF and other in/out audtio connectors, that are useless for players (I mean the version with front panell of course). The EMU sound effect processor was supposed to be good quality as well. But in reality DAC's worked very bed (cold, noisy and glassy sound). But the warst thing was, that - in opositiont to that Creative Labs promised - proper drivers (ASIO) were never delivered to Live! series (forcing users to upgrade to new Audigy) - making this series of sound cards unusable for most of the music creation software.
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I had the X-Gamer in high school back in 2000. Great card, came with some games that took advantage of EAX2: Giants - Citizen Kabuto, Deus-Ex GotY Edition, Need for Speed III, and Descent III.
For balls to the wall period accuracy, you could also track down a Cambridge Soundworks DTT3500 which utilised the digital DIN connector on the additional "useless" backplate. Before HDMI, it was the only way to get PCM multichannel sound in the consumer space. My dad bought both the Live 5.1 with livedrive and the DTT3500 when I was 13, it was the most epic thing at the time.
These Live! cards with the front I/O panel were something I desperately wanted to have when I was 13-14 years old. By the time I started working and was able to afford one of these myself, my interests had shifted to other aspects of PC building so this wasn't on my list of wants anymore.
So awesome dude! I wanted one of these too and today I picked up a SB Live and now I need this front panel! LOL
yup, one of the best soundcards
Personally my favorite card of this type so far is the YMF744 which is commonly availible on ebay for affordable prices and even new in box. But its cool seeing a live done justice in a all creative pc like this.
The yamaha card though has EAX2.0 and A3D 1.0 support. A great built in midi synth (depends on the win driver but works in dos prompts). No different revisions so its easy to get drivers. And best of all genuine yamaha OPL3 with high compatibility in native dos even in newer builds that do not natively support ddma or when slowdown utilities are used.
Highly recommend it for future builds if you never tried it before.
I'll have to try one of those now.
Ahhh, mate! Such a great card! And yeah, I had a bulk version back in the day. And I always wanted to have that bay for extra stuff. And those sounds are a freakin' trip to the 90s :)
Great vid! Loved it!
Yep, inbox was more expensive :D
Thank you sir.
I'm building a Windows 98SE retro computer myself, and an original SB Live 5.1 is almost obligatory. I would also love to add a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 PCI card to complement a GeForce 5xxx AGP card, unfortunately I only have two Voodoo 3 AGP and one Voodoo 2 PCI that I found on old computers, so I'm going with the Voodoo 2 PCI for now, otherwise I would have to build a second computer for the Voodoo 3 AGP alone!
I had one back in the day - still have it. Replaced an AWE32 with this. Now pair it with a Matrox G400 Max and happy days.
Just checked - mine was the earlier one - the LiveDrive IR - has smaller midi ports (came with adapters) but also had IR port and remote. Was with my Live 5.1 Platinum edition iirc. Do have a couple of Live 5.1 cards but as you say - the card only affair was pretty common and oem'd to the compaq's and Dells of the world.
Fun note the AWE32 had a ew revisions and some didn't like Compaq computers - just mad how two fully working cards and only one will work in the Compaq - that was a fun diagnositic I recall of the time.
Espectacular, hace tiempo quiero instalar uno de estos en mi pc y estaba dificultando encontrar un buen video. Gracias!
You must be the only one to show something about Creative Live Drive II in the whole YT - would love to see what you've done with it? Maybe a video, pliz ☺
Wow! Starcraft broke me ❤ ~ Tnks for such good time watching you
Easily one of the best for win98 gaming.
Although i prefer the Aureal Vortex 2 over it.
When you have heard Heretic II in A3D 2.0 you cant go back.
I had the Live value card...it didn't have the live drive...it was a set that came with the Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 speakers....it was quite a nice setup.
I am in process to build my dreaming retro battlestation with a K6-II 475ACK that I got, a DFI motherboard which I might bought soon, any decent soundcard (I don't care who's the manufacturer, I only want interesting MIDI sound samples), 512 MB, and many other cool things. And of course dual booting Win 98 and 2000. A sweet rig.
I also like the 'crap' in front. Plenty of DVD/CD/LiveDrive!
I had the basic Live back in the day. It's follow up I still have. The Audigy 2 ZS Platiunum Pro. With a bay like yours. Too bad I don't have a PC anymore with a PCI slot.
I've got two of those zs cards. Great cards, basically the same for msdos compatibility as the live series but with much better eax support.
SB Live5.1is best of the best sound card!!
i am using this card on windows 11 is this good card for music ? or i must buy some newest card ?
Looks and sounds awesome. Lovely 90s tower.
Yes, front IO :)
How do you get this thing to work in dos. Sound works fine in windows 98
Sound amazing 21:41🎧🎧
HAhahahah... funny intro 😆, Yeah wanted this to in the passed 🙌
Glad you liked it
Ótimo video!
IMO uma das melhores placas de som para o windows 98. Os drivers VXD podem ser um bocado problemáticos por vezes e a compatibilidade DOS não é 100% perfeita, mas tirando isso é uma excelente placa com uma decente qualidade de som.
Offtopic: Não pude deixar de notar que o teu Windows está em portugues mas no entanto o explorer/barra de tarefas estão em inglês. É um bocado estranho.
@JCFB Provavelmente instalou um patch em Inglês, alguns incluem um explorer.exe actualizado, hoje em dia muitos patches são dificeis de encontrar em PT-PT...
Had this set back in day 😍 was not cheap think was 600 gulden or 300 euro+
I'm afraid that this *is* an OEM card. The clue is in the first two characters of the model number. Live!'s with CT were Creative's retail cards, and SB indicated OEM cards. This was not the case for Audigy however. Creative's own support page (Solution ID: 10846) specifies the SB0100 is a "Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Compaq/IBM/HP (No AC-3decode)".
The sb0060 I'm using is a 3rd gen card and it's fully featured. All the 3rd gen cards are based on this model. Retail and oem.
@@DeckardGames Having come back to this again today, your video does show an SB0060. For some reason I had it in my head that you were using an SB0100. Where did I get that from? Ignore me - it was very late last night when watching this. Also, I read elsewhere that SB on Live! cards indicates 5.1 channel support and CT indicates 4.1 and below - maybe a fun fact?
@@jimjamz. no problem. We're just talking.
All 3rd gen cards were marked "5.1" which meant support of 6-channel acoustic systems.
If you like creative stuff... have you heard of the Blaster PC case? I think it was a barebones pc kit, slot 1 motheboard... I almost bought one but Tiger Direct didn't fill my order
Never heard of it. I'm intrigued.
@@DeckardGamescathode ray dude CRD mentioned that case on one of his latest videos about the Infra CD-ROM kits, If I ever heard about these cases I can't remember it 😅.
Actually you will get quite clean audio output under dos environment with vibra16s card.
Kkk awsome intro 😃✌ and cool video brother
Good vids. But what year is it???i mean what year you made this video?
What ever.....but SOUND BLASTER is one of the best soundcard i ever know.
Bravo....
beautiful time machine ❤️
Watching this video literally sounds better listening though my Acer laptop perched 2ft away from my monitor than my soundblaster 20+ years ago did , im so confused
Have you tried the MIDI OUT to a MT32 or any synth for DOS games?
Good card, shame it doesn't support MIDI out for DOS applications.
No? I'll have to try it
Try with softmpu
It has emulation for dos, the manual (my card is a sb-0100) has instructions about that and how to enable it
I have non 5.1 version, regular one. Will it work with OS 98 SE as well?
So, what would be some use cases for that front I/O panel? It looks cool and I sure want one, but does it do anything if you're just using the card to listen to stuff, not recording or anything like that? Would plugging headphones in that front jack get you better sound than just plugging them in the sound card directly?
May i ask is it the ribble cable was IDE cable? I brought from someone without AD EXT cable provided and i have that sound card!
It's not an ide cable, but I believe you can use one with 40 lines only.
Hi everybody! I got this audio card + the entire audio system (5 speakers and 1 subwoofer), back in 2001 it was a present. Everything is mounted on a Pentium III, which today only works partially, so I can't use this super audio it as I would like. My goal would be to use this system to listen to music and watch movies or TV series, and the old computer couldn't handle it. In your opinion, is there a way to use this sound card on a modern notebook or computer, for example with external connections of some kind?
Yess i'm watching this video using the same setup live drive 2 & the creative Cambridge sound works (5 speakers and 1 subwoofer) using the digital din connector, works in perfection :) on a pc windows 10 sounds awesome!!! for everything fully functional even my guitar is plugged in to the live drive.
I still have a couple of these cards, but I can't use them on windows 7. there are generic drivers for windows 7, but the quality isn't that good
Hello. I can give you a pointer set your music card in Duke setup to something else it's set wrong and on sound blaster live it can sound much better
Hey could you pleeease make a disc image of the driver CD and upload it to like archive or something? Been trying forever to get my Live Drive II to work...
Link is in the description of the video
Tidy!
Can I use this one for windows 10?
uhh kinda late i know but, what would be the difference beteen this and a sb0220? would the conpatibility be affected?
The sb0220 is the Dell version of the sb live. Works fine with the correct drivers.
and where can i find the drivers?
@@sparki_ VOGONS: www.vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=7
@@DeckardGames okay thanks a lot
Is this product still working with moderns windows OS ? I had that in my first PC !!
yes on windowws 11 working with not orginal driver
🙄 my experience with my old sound card like that, 2 giga ram maxs or death blue screen... hope not be broken motherboard... 😂😁
Drivers for vin 10?
you know this card still work in new linux
Is that just a regular IDe cable?
No. But I think it works with one.
@@DeckardGames oh omu
Hi can you mak e copy of your cd of creative live 5.1 please i try a lot of drivers for 98 and are not working thank you
You can get it here: vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=7
This card was HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. As it was advertised as entry level gear for music creation. That's why it had MIDI, SPDIFF and other in/out audtio connectors, that are useless for players (I mean the version with front panell of course). The EMU sound effect processor was supposed to be good quality as well. But in reality DAC's worked very bed (cold, noisy and glassy sound). But the warst thing was, that - in opositiont to that Creative Labs promised - proper drivers (ASIO) were never delivered to Live! series (forcing users to upgrade to new Audigy) - making this series of sound cards unusable for most of the music creation software.
I Have Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital And I Wana Instaled On My Windows 10 pc but I dont Have The drivers At Least
you can find not orginal driver for this i have this driver
@toolsx8677 thanks Bro
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Es mejor la awe 64!
my win98/xp machine is a p4 3ghz (my original machine is long gone), in a 2001 case.