Creative charging $9.99 for its sound card to work perfectly on Vista
Creative Labs has released the Creative Alchemy Audigy Edition software package for users of its Sound Blaster Audigy sound cards on Windows Vista. The software allows Vista users to take advantage of hardware-accelerated DirectSound3D and EAX audio. But there’s a catch.
The software package costs users an extra $US9.99, and is required becaueseof changes made by Microsoft to its audio engine within DirectX on Vista. Basically, the audio engine was taken out, which means that many sound cards that worked perfectly well with XP, no longer work with Vista.
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