As the title suggests, im moving from having a gtx 470 installed to an ATI 7970, what is the best way for me to go about this, I wish to avoid having to reinstall windows if possible, although this is the only 100% method I know of for a clean driver installation, any help or advice?
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Going from Nvidia >> ATI
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It didn't work for me the last time I did it.
When I got my 6970 I did all of the above that jak731 says. However, there were still bits in the add remove programs. I tried driver sweeper, but all I got after that was bsods and problems so I had to reinstall.
It seems that certain Nvidia beta drivers don't come off properly.
From experience I would strongly recommend a complete reinstall when going from one card to another. It's the only way to be sure.
You'll also need to install a version of the Physx standalone software or some games will throw up a "Could not find Physx.dll" errors.
When I got my 6970 I did all of the above that jak731 says. However, there were still bits in the add remove programs. I tried driver sweeper, but all I got after that was bsods and problems so I had to reinstall.
It seems that certain Nvidia beta drivers don't come off properly.
From experience I would strongly recommend a complete reinstall when going from one card to another. It's the only way to be sure.
You'll also need to install a version of the Physx standalone software or some games will throw up a "Could not find Physx.dll" errors.
Ya I think I will do a reinstall just to be sure, I really cba with the hassle of problems later and then having to do a reinstall anyways, and its not a major biggie, I upgraded to 2 crucial M4 64 gb ssd's in raid 0 a while ago, so everything is fresh and I wont lose much data, its an insane system speed boost. It made loading battlefield 3 quick everytime.
When I tried a 7970 (moving from a 570) I just used add/remove programs for everything nvidia and installed the latest amd drivers and it worked perfectly. I did the same going from amd back to nvidia again. It doesn't seem to hinder performance or cause random crashes, etc doing it this way. In my experience windows 7 seems to do a great job in avoiding driver conflicts- it either works or it doesn't.
"This software can not be removed because it is missing a component required for its removal"
Was along the lines of what it was telling me. Basically the bug is (apparently) that if you remove the Nvidia "list 'o' crap" in the wrong order then you've had it.
I did, of course, run driver sweeper, but it was too late. I could not get one of them shifted from my CP. Even Revo Uninstaller couldn't do it. It would just sit on advanced for over an hour and then time out and say that it could not complete the removal.
Only time I've experienced something like that is if I've tried an unorthodox removal of a program or driver using driver sweeper (or something simlar) and then attempted to remove it from the CP afterwards.
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^This
I moved from a 9800GTX+ 512MB to 5850 1GB just by uninstalling all the nvidia the drivers in control panel, shut down the PC, take out the 9800GTX+, install the 5850, back into windows 7, install 5850 drivers...no problem whatsoever and games working perfectly fine.
I think people are actually doing more harm than good using driver sweeper, and I don't think it is necessary for Windows 7, plus driver sweeper is an old software that ain't even designed with Windows 7 in mind (since it was released years ago).
I saw far more people having problem after using drivers sweeper for Windows 7 than those just do the simple uninstall the drivers in control panel.
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