Battle of the Titans: Creative Labs Annihilator vs. Leadtek WinFast GeForce 256

Software Bundles

Apparently both companies decided to package some software that they felt would be useful to the consumer. Most of us have come to know these types of software as "shovel-ware" which means software that is useless to most people who end up throwing it away. In this case, I believe there are some pretty useful utilities and applications. Ranging from full-fledged 3D software applications to video enhancing utilities.

Creative provides the bare essentials by at least providing the software DVD player so that you can play movies on your PC if you have a DVD drive. On the other hand, Leadtek forks over the goods with a nice line-up of applications that can be useful to some. Granted not everyone cares about producing web content, particularly not VRML, but it seems to be a nice addition nowadays since everyone's on the web.

The Windows98-Driver Of The Creative Labs Annihilator

Blaster Control is what Creative adds to the display properties adding informational windows as well as configuration sections. In this particular window we can see some basic adapter information.

After clicking the report button in the general information window, you get this nifty little summary.

Here we have the monitor adjustment section. It enables you to pre-adjust your screen on the monitor before you fine-tune it with your monitor-adjustments.

In case you toss the Colorific program and/or need to adjust your color settings through software, you can come to this section of the Blaster Control utility.