Going Red to Green..

[inverseSquare]

I have an old 5770 at the moment, I'm moving to a 970 soon


Any particular advice for swapping from one set of drivers to another?
(win7 64)

Is uninstalling the Ati drivers, shutting down, swapping GPUs, installing nvidia drivers - the best route?



Cheers guys!

 

[thefogo]

You mean red to green?

Yeah that should work fine.

 

[Jamielicious]

I used Driver Sweeper when I went from green to red 2 years ago. I uninstalled drivers first then used Driver Sweeper. I guess that will still do the job today.

 

[inverseSquare]

You mean red to green?

Yeah that should work fine.

Aww man YEAH, that's what I meant [edited ]

 

[Shiari]

You should probably use DDU to uninstall your drivers ... http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/

 

[romper76]

if you have had your windows installation for a long time i would just do a fresh win7 install. nice fresh and speedy!

 

[l2ez4m]

As well as DDU tool - this is very comprehensive guide for those ungodly apostates to root out all the hidden AMD/Ati regs&files.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/2012/04/04/guide-how-to-completely-uninstall-amd-graphics-drivers/

 

[Finners]

Went from green to red recently and DDU worked very well, no problems.

 

[ratters]

I did a clean install always nice to start again, takes some time to get everything setup but get rid of some of the bloat along the way.

 

[ukxenon]

i went from red to green years ago and never looked back

 

[Akagi]

I have AMD and NVIDIA drivers installed, and don't install or uninstall anything when I switch from one to the other...

No issues.

 

[arc@css]

As above, pretty much. I only use something like a third party application if I need to.

 

[thefogo]

I have AMD and NVIDIA drivers installed, and don't install or uninstall anything when I switch from one to the other...

No issues.

Yeah I had both installed at one time when I was switching a lot and had no problems.

 

[TGReaper]

I am also joining the green team 970 SLI

 

[TGReaper]

I would say fresh install would be best though

 

[inverseSquare]

FWIW I did the steps in my original post and things are working fine.

A fresh install would be perfect, true, but I don't want the down-time in the machine tbh

Cheers for the advice, guys!

 

[Devlish]

Im thinking seriously about green due to a couple of issues i'm having with my 7970 (and not being able to play DCS with the DK2!).

Any thoughts on 780 or a 970? Those seem to be around the price range.