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spawn_eternal   09-22-2008 at 03:02:13 PM

Hi

I recently moved over to ATI from nVidia. In personal experience I usually just installed the updated driver(s) for nVidia over the previous version to do a driver update. Should I do the same with ATI drivers, or should I first uninstall the ATI driver before installing the new one? Please advise.

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blackwidow_rsa   09-22-2008 at 03:17:51 PM
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It's always advised to uninstall drivers first

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outlw6669   09-22-2008 at 03:49:29 PM
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It is always best to uninstal the old drivers before updating to newer ones.

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mitch074   09-22-2008 at 04:16:42 PM
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While it's true that it shouldn't be too troublesome to install a driver over a previous install, and Ati is nice there because they provide a slim driver package (no control panel, use Ati Tray Tools for lightweight configuration and a much smaller download), uninstalling a previous driver is, indeed, good practice - if you go as far as removing settings recorded in your user profiles.

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