Changing from 390 to Fury - installation and driver query

[Pinky Floyd]

In the old days, when I was a lad and and crisps were 10p a bag (ok, maybe not that far back) I used to just upgrade on the Nvidia path by simply swapping in the new graphics card and the driver would automatically pick it up and I didn't need to do anything.

Tomorrow will be swapping out a 390 for a Fury, I'm on the latest Crimson driver.

So yeah, AMD's software engineers are competent enough that I can simply swap the card and all will be well. Right?

Or do I have to faff about with another uninstall/re-install of drivers?

Kind of hoping that it's a straight swap.........

 

[Pinky Floyd]

As I suspected, it looks like a straight swap. Thus giving ultimate confidence in the mighty AMD software engineers and QA's whom I am quite sure have tested this very common scenario to oblivion and back. lol. At lease I hope they have. But then I'm a QA myself so maybe I'll do a little system backup first, ya know, just in case

 

[Pinky Floyd]

You can do straight swap but using DDU to unstaill and reinstall the new driver always give you a better performance. As it only takes 10mins or so?

The driver is the same so the software should basically detect the different architecture and get on with things as normal unless there is some pretty shoddy software engineering going on?

I can't think of any reason why reinstalling the driver would give better performance. I'm all ears tho!

 

[Pinky Floyd]

Straight swap it will be and then if there are any issues, I can always reinstall.

 

[Pinky Floyd]

Well, did you do it?

Card won't arrive until tomorrow so it'll be tomorrow evening before I'm able

 

[Pinky Floyd]

Somehow DPD have failed to deliver within the 2 day window they were supposed to so I have no Fury and the 390 has been removed from the PC and packed away for selling so I cant even play Evolve tonight. Flippin DPD, they havent updated the status since they picked the card up on Monday

 

[Pinky Floyd]

Card arrived, straight swap worked no issues