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Going from Nvidia >> ATI

Kynd

Kynd

Kynd

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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?
 
ALXAndy said:
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.
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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.
 
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