AMD Drivers, installation questions

Ragnar Weirwood

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Hello everyone I'm hoping you guys/gals can calm my nerves about updating my AMD drivers.

Basic Questions.

1) Do I need to uninstall the old Catalyst drivers from the uninstall feature in windows before installing the new ones? I read that if you are not changing graphic cards you just need to install the new drivers and it will uninstall current and install new.

2) If I do uninstall the drivers and restart my machine, what will Windows 8.1 do on start up? use it's main drivers and boot up like normal?

3) Reverting to older drivers, I have 14.6 beta and if I wanted to go back to my previous drivers 13.12 would I simply fallow the steps above?

14.6 (for me) is running my GPU 5-10 degrees hotter then before.

Any suggestions or need to know info would be greatly appreciated.
 

Ragnar Weirwood

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Will it ask me this on the restart after uninstall?
 

Ragnar Weirwood

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So Windows (after I uninstall the current AMD catalyst) will just use default drivers for my card and then I should be able to install the drivers I want?
 


Yes as long Windows itself is updated.
 

Ragnar Weirwood

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thank you for your help, I think Monday I'm gonna go ahead and do the uninstall / reinstall of the 13.12 drivers. These 14.6 beta drivers is making my GPU run hotter and I personally feel I've lost performance, yes I know they are beta :p

Thanks again.