Switching Camps

[super_teabag]

Hey Linustechips Forum, I'll be switching from a EVGA 650ti SSC to an AMD 7870 tahiti LE card, and since the two drivers may  interfere with one another some people recomend using a cleanup program called "driver sweeper." Also, others recomend this method can cause missing DLL issues and other deletion of essential windows .INI files.

 

When swapping out the cards the common concensus was

1. Unistall the drivers (nvidia) and all other nvidia related software, and restart

2. startup using safemode and run driver sweeper to avoid possible tampering with windows files, and restart

 

alternative step 2. manually delete all nvidia drivers, files, dll related nvidia entries, and restart

 

What is the best route to take? There has to be someone out there who is switching cards quite frequently, and I'd rather not reinstall my windows partition

 

 

 

[tabuburn]

I uninstall and use Driver Sweeper and/or CCleaner even when updating drivers. This method is the most preferred to clean old drivers without having to do a clean OS install.

[Opsilon]

i switched last year from AMD to NV card, and no matter what i did, even driver sweeper didn't help, my performance was strange, it ran fine, then another day it started slowing down for no obvious reason, CPU and gpu were like not even trying, i reinstalled the drivers, that did not help eather, and i even found a part of AMD driver still working in the background, and that was like random, sometimes form start, sometimes after 1h, was really annoying , so i said fck it and reinstalled windows and everything stopped screwing with my gameplay, i heard a lot of people did not see this problem, but i guess sometimes it happens

[super_teabag]

What i'm getting from this is maybe, and maybe not need to manually unistall just use driver sweeper (cuz it's simpler) and CCleaner registry cleaner. Hopefully (fingers crossed) it should resolve and remove any leftover driver install files/entires.

 

If not i've always got my Win 7 disc *sigh* having to finally use optical media lol :o

[GamerDude]

This has always worked for me, even when switching between caps.....though some would suggest the extreme measure of reinstalling OS for a clean start (the best solution, but most radical one also). Do this:

Uninstall nVidia driver/software and reboot,

Run Driver Cleaner, tick nV FW driver and proceed, reboot,

Upon restart, install Cat 13.5 B2 and reboot...

 

It should run normally after this....

[TechFan@ic]

This has always worked for me, even when switching between caps.....though some would suggest the extreme measure of reinstalling OS for a clean start (the best solution, but most radical one also). Do this:

Uninstall nVidia driver/software and reboot,

Run Driver Cleaner, tick nV FW driver and proceed, reboot,

Upon restart, install Cat 13.5 B2 and reboot...

 

It should run normally after this....

This is what I'd recommend .

[super_teabag]

Okay, I'll try this method first. Run some benchmarks, stress test a little make sure everything is working normally. Continue to use the system as is, and then if problems persist whip out the ol' disc

 

This has always worked for me, even when switching between caps.....though some would suggest the extreme measure of reinstalling OS for a clean start (the best solution, but most radical one also). Do this:

Uninstall nVidia driver/software and reboot,

Run Driver Cleaner, tick nV FW driver and proceed, reboot,

Upon restart, install Cat 13.5 B2 and reboot...

 

It should run normally after this....