Creative Labs Wants You To Pay For Vista Drivers

This is a new one.

Creative Labs who has had very good products for the most part, is taking a step in the wrong direction. If you own Vista and want to enjoy EAX-enabled effects from your Creative Audigy sound card, you will have to pay $9.99.

That's right!!!

You have to pay for something that should already be working when you buy the sound card. This comes from Creative Labs having to create a workaround due to the fact that Microsoft removed the Vendor Extension mechanism from Vista’s DirectSound implementation. This sent CL back to the drawing board to create a driver to correct the issue. Now I know that Microsoft screwed them by removing an important component from their OS that makes the sound card work, but to extort money from the user for a new driver that makes the sound card do what it is advertised to do?

That's low.

Read the entire article after the jump. [ZDNET via Crunchgear]