Switching Graphics Cards, need to uninstall drivers?

[mxoagentjohnson]

Hey, just wanted to ask real quick.
I'm swapping from AMD to nVidia in the next few days when my 680 power gets here and just wondered, do i need to remove all of the amd drivers from my pc or are they ok staying there? I've never swapped graphics cards before so im not sure.

Any help would be great thanks

 

[Christmas themed thank]

You should, just to make sure there are no interferences.

 

[whyscotty]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18532608

 

[SirCanealot]

I run test benches at work and we switch between cards constantly.

Generally the worst thing that happens is it downloads a driver from windows update on our painfully slow internet.

However, sometimes really weird things happens and we need to clear out all the drivers and install the proper ones.

So for your home computer, if you're not going to be switching back and forth, it's not worth taking the 1% risk of something weird happening.

I was running ATI a while ago (borrowed some for some lite coin mining ) and I'm pretty sure I forgot to uninstall the NVidia drivers for ages...

 

[djxput]

Hey, just wanted to ask real quick.
I'm swapping from AMD to nVidia in the next few days when my 680 power gets here and just wondered, do i need to remove all of the amd drivers from my pc or are they ok staying there? I've never swapped graphics cards before so im not sure.

Any help would be great thanks

its definitely suggested that you do - uninstall all drivers first with old card still in - take card out put new card in and install new drivers.

I had to do a system restore once because somehow my system got corrupted because I didn't uninstall gpu drivers.

 

[mxoagentjohnson]

its definitely suggested that you do - uninstall all drivers first with old card still in - take card out put new card in and install new drivers.

I had to do a system restore once because somehow my system got corrupted because I didn't uninstall gpu drivers.

I've heard that the AMD uninstaller that AMD provide can bugger around with windows 8, but i'm windows 7 and i havent heard complaints from it. I dont know if its worth using it?

 

[oldestgregg]

I've heard that the AMD uninstaller that AMD provide can bugger around with windows 8, but i'm windows 7 and i havent heard complaints from it. I dont know if its worth using it?

Thats because its win 7 only bud

 

[WuMyster]

Ive left drivers on before when I was benchmarking and all was fine, but definitely do it if you can.