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Going from Nvidia to ATI - advice with installing please

RaMDOM

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Guys (and Gals - if there are any that frequent such a forum). I have just ordered a new HIS1900XT 512Mb card from OcUK which will (God willing) arrive tomorrow.

Now, I have a 6800GT and in the past when I have switched graphics manufacturers I have just gone and done a complete system re-install. However, this time I really can't be bothered. I have heard about this Driver cleaner program that may get rid of this hassle for me, so could anyone tell me where I find it, what version I need, when to use it, etc.

For instance (and this is the order I imagine I would do it in), do I:
1) Uninstall my old card,
2) Reboot with the old card in, not allow autodetect,
3) Run the driver cleaner,
4) Shut down,
5) Install new card, boot up
6) Install drivers for new card

Have I got that right? Am I missing anything?

Also, how can I tell if it has been a success? Is there an acid test? I don't want to get my new card in, run Oblivion and find that the performance is not a good as I thought and not know whether it is the actual cards performance or that I haven't installed it correctly.

Cheers in advance for your advice. :)
 
You've got the general gist of how to do it. However I would boot into safe mode for step 2. Also driver cleaner itself should have some instructions in the readme about recommended procedures.
 
just downloaded driver cleaner. Seems pretty straight forward. My only question is the Cab cleaner.

I notice that there are two options: SP2.cab and Driver.cab. I am guessing that I should only select Driver.cab, or should I select SP2.cab as well? Is there any harm in running both?
 
I just went from a 6800 to an x1800xt, and at that point i just did the Driver.cab and i've had no problems so far (that im aware of)

Also if your coming from Nvidia your probably gonna hate the Catalyst Control Panel. I installed the 6.8 catalyst drivers complete with the CCC and within 3 days i'd taken the CCC off and installed the latest Omega drivers :)

Happy to report the jump from Nvidia to ATI has gone perfectly so far :)
 
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