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Creative ftp+Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect

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First post, by M4cke

Posted on 2024-10-27, 19:13

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Hi guys,

i recently was able to get myself a fine Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect in NOS condition, but apart from the drivers on CD, I was not able to find any other (Creative) drivers on the web (I know that Creative drivers might just be rebranded 3dlabs drivers lacking some options, but still).
Yes, the card runs fine with 3.01.0852 3dlabs drivers.
Is there anyone out there who has mirrored the old Creative Labs ftp or has the last drivers for the Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect?
That would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

M4cke

Reply 1 of 6, by Horun

Posted on 2024-10-27, 20:31

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All I could find is this: https://support.creative.com/downloads/search … ename=&nPage=67
"Creative Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect. This is a driver update for the Creative Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect graphics card. Show Details »
Release date: 23 Jul 03. Filesize: 4.51 MB "
but no other details showed....

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Reply 2 of 6, by M4cke

Posted on 2024-10-27, 20:37

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Horun wrote on 2024-10-27, 20:31:
All I could find is this: https://support.creative.com/downloads/search … ename=&nPage=67 "Creative Graphics Blaster Picture Per […]
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All I could find is this: https://support.creative.com/downloads/search … ename=&nPage=67
"Creative Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect. This is a driver update for the Creative Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect graphics card. Show Details »
Release date: 23 Jul 03. Filesize: 4.51 MB "
but no other details showed....

Thank you for looking! I cannot even find the text that you are writing about... I only see the driver update 44.04 that is for nVidia?!?
But I understand right that you could not download anything?

Thx,

M4cke

Reply 3 of 6, by Horun

Posted on 2024-10-27, 20:59

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M4cke wrote on 2024-10-27, 20:37:
Thank you for looking! I cannot even find the text that you are writing about... I only see the driver update 44.04 that is for […]
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Thank you for looking! I cannot even find the text that you are writing about... I only see the driver update 44.04 that is for nVidia?!?
But I understand right that you could not download anything?

Thx,

M4cke

It is this link: https://support.creative.com/downloads/downlo … DownloadId=2188
After you prove not a robot it downloads "GBPPSetup.exe"
added: I checked the wayback machine and could not find anything related to the Picture Perfect but there were a lot of other Creative graphic cards....

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 4 of 6, by M4cke

Posted on 2024-10-27, 21:29

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Horun wrote on 2024-10-27, 20:59:
It is this link: https://support.creative.com/downloads/downlo … DownloadId=2188 After you prove not a robot it downloads "GBPPS […]
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M4cke wrote on 2024-10-27, 20:37:
Thank you for looking! I cannot even find the text that you are writing about... I only see the driver update 44.04 that is for […]
Show full quote

Thank you for looking! I cannot even find the text that you are writing about... I only see the driver update 44.04 that is for nVidia?!?
But I understand right that you could not download anything?

Thx,

M4cke

It is this link: https://support.creative.com/downloads/downlo … DownloadId=2188
After you prove not a robot it downloads "GBPPSetup.exe"
added: I checked the wayback machine and could not find anything related to the Picture Perfect but there were a lot of other Creative graphic cards....

I already was at archive.org as well, but found nothing.
Thank you for the link, it seems to be the CD Driver, but at least the readme.txt has some changes... I will investigate.
If somebody has a mirror of the Creative Labs ftp, please let me know!

M4cke

Reply 5 of 6, by Horun

Posted on 2024-10-28, 02:32

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from what I can get from lots searching is that ftp.creaf.com was last up in late 2000, then everything shifted to web downloads....that predates your vid card so there would be nothing there for it AFAIK

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Reply 6 of 6, by M4cke

Posted on 2024-10-31, 16:13

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Horun wrote on 2024-10-28, 02:32:

from what I can get from lots searching is that ftp.creaf.com was last up in late 2000, then everything shifted to web downloads....that predates your vid card so there would be nothing there for it AFAIK

You may be right, I did not know that.
Thanks again for your help, very much appreciated!

M4cke

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