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Best practice with new drivers

tom1402

tom1402

tom1402

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Hi,

Using AMD as my example, when prompted of a driver update within the AMD thingy panel, is it fine to just accept, download and install?

or is it better to download it, then remove the old driver via the control panel and then proceed to install it after a restart?

Just curious as the best way to do it, was not sure if the update software removed all traces of the old driver automatically.

Also if there is better way, I would appreciate some top tips.

Thanks
 
download latest driver and DDU
unstall msi afterburner (if you use it)
run DDU to remove old driver in safemode
install latest driver, restart
download / install latest afterburner, restart
 
^^ It's really a massive failure of a hardware vendor if this kind of song and dance is necessary.

They could just fix whatever the issue is, centrally, rather than wasting god knows how many combined man hours of customers' time.
 
Never had an issue with AMD simply doing an uninstall, restart, and install new driver.

Also doesn't their new tool take care of this stuffautomatically? Initiates the uninstall and the rest etc, when executed.
 
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I just download the latest driver and install over the top, The only time I've needed to use DDU is when I either change brand (from Nvidia to AMD or AMD to Nvidia) or when there is a major change to the software such as there was when we all moved to AMD's Crimson drivers and again when we moved to the Relive drivers. For regular driver updates there is no need.
 
eddyr said:
Never had an issue with AMD simply doing an uninstall, restart, and install new driver.

Also doesn't their new tool take care of this stuffautomatically? Initiates the uninstall and the rest etc, when executed.
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Yes. Also the AMD has an option when you select an Upgrade to do a full uninstall before hand. (is a check box to the right hand side).

I only use DDU when I was switching between cards, or downgrade drivers and the system refused to do so.

Spyhop said:
^^ It's really a massive failure of a hardware vendor if this kind of song and dance is necessary.

They could just fix whatever the issue is, centrally, rather than wasting god knows how many combined man hours of customers' time.
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Eh?

What jupiter_man wrote is not relevant these days, at least for the AMD drivers if you upgrade and do not downgrade, or have installed the same drivers 2-3 times in the system going up and down on versions.

If jupiter_man uses that process, doesn't mean is "must".

As the other said, we just install on top and at least in the case of AMD it works fine. If you want to remove the previous one first, it even has the option to do so during the upgrade process.
 
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