Is it necessary to uninstall old drivers before installing new ?

[Art]

When updating to new ati radeon drivers, is it necessary to uninstall the
old drivers first?

Also, how come there now seem to be 2 different download options from the
ati site,

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/...&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=17&submit.y=7

The 20meg one is about the size of the last one I got, is the catalyst
control center the in the larger download a new feature? Is it necessary?

Thanks in advance.

 

[peter]

It is Better to uninstall the older Video Drivers before installing the new ones
even though other people have had success installing new over old.
The catalyst control center is a new feature....but it also makes your computer
take longer to boot and shut down.
There really isn't much in there.........unless your a hard core gamer and like
to set up profiles to match the games and like to adjust various settings
frequently.I tried it for a week and then uninstalled and went back to Control
Panel.
peter

 

[NightSky 421]

It is Better to uninstall the older Video Drivers before installing the new ones
even though other people have had success installing new over old.
The catalyst control center is a new feature....but it also makes your computer
take longer to boot and shut down.
There really isn't much in there.........unless your a hard core gamer and like
to set up profiles to match the games and like to adjust various settings
frequently.I tried it for a week and then uninstalled and went back to Control
Panel.
peter

Does the Catalyst driver uninstall program on ATI's website also uninstall
the control panel?

 

[Chingy]

Not really at all....

BUT if your comp is stuffed up already it is advisable that you DO so...in
safe mode ideally..

 

[Inglo]

Does the Catalyst driver uninstall program on ATI's website also uninstall
the control panel?

It uninstalls everything, even things like the Ruby ATI demo and MMC and
Hydravision. It un-ATIs your system.


--
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com

 

[Inglo]

When updating to new ati radeon drivers, is it necessary to uninstall the
old drivers first?

I install over the top, if something goes wrong I fix it. 9 times out
of 10 nothing goes wrong (YMMV). Last time it did go wrong, so I used
the ATI uninstall utility and reinstalled the 4.9s.

--
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com

 

[Tim Payne]

Also, the ATI - Software Uninstall Utility in Add or Remove Programs removes
everything, even demos (though I don't use MMC, so can't say 100% on that).

 

[Aloke Prasad]

The new instructions at

http://www.ati.com/support/installation/radeon/winxp/radeoninstallwinxp.html

don't mention any need for uninstalling older drivers. They do recommend
removing older versions of MultiMediaCenter before installing newer
versions, though.

http://www.ati.com/support/installation/radeon/winxp/mmcinstallwinxp.html

 

[Mark]

You wrote in
thusly:

Also, the ATI - Software Uninstall Utility in Add or Remove Programs
removes everything, even demos (though I don't use MMC, so can't say
100% on that).

It removes the MMC, too.

 

[Mark]

You wrote in thusly:

The new instructions at

http://www.ati.com/support/installation/radeon/winxp/radeoninstallwinxp.html

don't mention any need for uninstalling older drivers. They do
recommend removing older versions of MultiMediaCenter before
installing newer versions, though.

http://www.ati.com/support/installation/radeon/winxp/mmcinstallwinxp.html

I don't know if you can be sure of anything at this point. In the
instructions for the Display driver it reads:

"3. If you are using an ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON or RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO
product you should install the appropriate WDM capture drivers prior
to installing the display drivers. The WDM capture drivers will be
needed in order to have capture support available."

Installing the WDM driver prior is a bit difficult with the FULL package
as the installer automatically first installs the Display Driver, the
Control Panel and finally the WDM driver. So ATI doesn't follow their
own advice.

 

[NightSky 421]

Thanks for the replies!