Is it still necessary to uninstall, reboot, install, reboot?

[Craig321]

Hi,

Is the best way to upgrade graphic drivers still uninstall, reboot, install, reboot or is it just the same doing install, reboot?

The reason I ask is because I'm lazy

NVIDIA by the way

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Nope, its uninstall, reboot into safe-mode, run DriverCleaner pro, reboot normally, install latest.

 

[Craig321]

Bah, that's even worse

Sounds like a very good way to do it though.

 

[chaosophy]

ATi's waffle about the CCC really never did turn out to anything did it?.

Probably makes it easier for their devs internally but all the bull they fed us about, more features, live/auto updates, 3rd party plugins etc was all just to get us to accept the fact that it's still slower and no more user friendly than the old CP.

And wasn't Vista meant to sort out all this driver nonsense as well? No reboots etc? Not that I've really used it yet.

 

[Dan2kx]

well i just "upgrade" the lot each new revision, no problems here. 3dmark score goes up each time by a couple a hundred.

 

[MumboJumbo]

Nope, its uninstall, reboot into safe-mode, run DriverCleaner pro, reboot normally, install latest.

Ive installed graphics card drivers without any uninstalling at all lol.

Ive had no problems at...... *Appears a blue screen of death*.


No really though. They work fine

 

[snowdog]

well i just "upgrade" the lot each new revision, no problems here. 3dmark score goes up each time by a couple a hundred.

Same, way too lazy to uninstall and reboot, 3dmark scores are fine and increase when I install a better driver over a worse one.

 

[Sem]

lol normally just installing over the old drivers should be ok
but is not recommended because on the odd occasion you might get some sort of error
and then you would have wished you do it the proper way

/shrugs

 

[Margaret]

I just uninstall and reboot then install.

 

[Dutch Guy]

I have never uninstalled, drivercleaner etc... I just install the new drivers over the old ones and this has worked fine for years.

 

[Edinho]

Nope, its uninstall, reboot into safe-mode, run DriverCleaner pro, reboot normally, install latest.

While your at it may as well reinstall windows. Seems overkill to me just to upgrade the same make of drivers. If you going from nVidia to ATI then fair enough.

I have always just applied the drivers over the old ones, without problems.

 

[Teaf]

Have had driver clashing issues before, so I always uninstall -> reboot into safe mode -> run driver sweeper -> reboot into normal mode -> install new driver -> reboot again

Really for that extra 5 minutes max of work, you can save yourself a lot of potential hassle in the future if something did go wrong

 

[MeatLoaf]

I have never uninstalled, drivercleaner etc... I just install the new drivers over the old ones and this has worked fine for years.

Same here really

 

[Hybridtheory]

I've just always layed them over old ones too, been doing it for years.. never had a prob

 

[HangTime]

Yep, I just install new drivers over the top.

If I run into any problems, then I can always go the whole hog and uninstall / driver cleaner first.