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Think i'll have to go back to Nvidia

Could be a Driver Sweeper problem, ive said many a time it shouldn't be used in Vista as it could hose it, so you got to do a full re-install to be able to get drivers back on, theres just no need to use it imo.

All i do is go to the Programs and Features (Add/Remove), Double-click the ATi Install Manager, and tell it to Express remove all ATi related software, then once its done and its rebooted, i install the new, works everytime without fail, as it properly removes the drivers fully, where as Driver Sweeper doesn't, that could leave stuff behind, and could also remove stuff that it shouldn't, so that when you try to install drivers after using it you can't, only way is a re-install of Vista.

This is Win 7 for me btw (can't see why Vista would be diff).
 
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I used to do the old (from Add/Remove), remove the drivers (don't reboot), remove the CCC (again don't reboot), remove the ATi folder then reboot to safe mode, run Driver Sweeper on ATi and then reboot normally, install new, but then i started getting probs, upon rebooting id get the good old MOM Implementation error, as the drivers hadn't been fully un-installed properly, so then i had to do a full re-install, as i couldn't get any drivers on, so then i switched to the method i posted above and never had a prob, as the Install Manager does it properly.
 
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DO what I do

Before playing a game of driver roullette , take an acronis image of your PC

If it goes **** up , just restore image and all is well
 
Something appears to have changed in Kaspersky recently.
I am unsure of what, but a lot of program updates, reinstallations and standard installations are being blocked where before they were not.

Even a single splashscreen update to LOTRo is currently blocked by Kaspersky, where the same update has been made 20 times over the past 2 years without blocking.

They seem to have altered something without telling people, or their trusted lists are bugged.
 
I have double trouble, kerpersky and comdo both seem fine atm, you can set kerpersky to let it go if you catch the pop up
 
bledd. said:
heh :o

actually I mainly run nvidia cards

just didn't want you to take the shotgun blast approach and waste money

glad its sorted :)
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appreciate that.

i'll try and see what fps gain i get in Crysis etc later but as stated i am now getting artifects whilst running vantage.

anyone else experience such issues with 9.6?
 
Sorry to pee on everyone's parade but Drivercleaner caused this issue for me twice. My last card was Nvidia and Drivercleaner worked fine (If it actually does anything.) in the sense it caused no issues.

I bought my 4870x2 which installed fine first time, but when I updated drivers I did the uninstall, sweep, paranoid thing thinking that the driver nazis were gonna create mutant drivers that made my games run 0.5% slower if I did not do it and I found I could not re-install the new ones. Only a fresh install of windows fixed it.

This happened twice until I a guy from ATI told me at Guru3d that there was no need to uninstall and definately no need to sweep when updating Vista ATI drivers due to the improved driver model. There is growing opinion over there that sweeper is hosing certain peoples installs, as it is deleting system files that may be needed.

Driversweeper does not remove the files from your HDD, it only deletes them which in effect flags the files as ok to overwrite. They are still there until they get overwritten, so you are not protecting yourself from anything by sweeping at all.

Ati's install manager will stop all running services, update what files are needed, and then verify the installed files in one click. There is no need to uninstall first or anything. I do it this way now and haven't experienced one issue for the last 10 months or so.....

*Edit* Updating this way keeps all of your settings and profiles too, as its been designed that way........
 
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Process for updating ATI drivers.

Run latest driver executable.
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Done this since I've had the 4870 and it's always worked fine. Find Drivercleaner, safe mode and 90 restarts to be way overkill.
To echo everyone else, sounds like your install is shafted. Either that or the card has issues... Going Nvidia isn't the solution.
 
Aekeron said:
As has been said, it's a broken OS install - nothing to do with ATI or Nvidia.
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Emlyn_Dewar said:
Process for updating ATI drivers.

Run latest driver executable.
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Done this since I've had the 4870 and it's always worked fine. Find Drivercleaner, safe mode and 90 restarts to be way overkill.
To echo everyone else, sounds like your install is shafted. Either that or the card has issues... Going Nvidia isn't the solution.
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mine turned out to be Kaspersky. Issue now is it creates artifects in Vantage.
Unsure on games but shall try later.

If it appears in games then i shall go back to 9.5
 
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