yeap, keep smoking it.
It's a myth. 99 % of the time, installing new ATI drivers over old ones
works fine. In fact, I'd be inclined to say 100%. But just in case
something goes wrong that's unrelated, I'll say 99 %.
When you install a driver, you copy files over old ones (at least in ATI's
case), unless some function call in a file is trying to reference anther
function in a file that was supposed to be deleted, you might have a
problem. But then there should have not been such a function call. If
there is one, then there is a bug in the new driver.
What happened to the days when people posted messages with knowledge that
was researched and not just assumed or heard.
This is the second time today I came across a post where somebody made a
statement he/she believed was true when it wasn't.
Listen, if you heard it somewhere, verify it first before you perpetuate the
garbage down the food-chain. BTW, reading about something many times
doesn't make it true. It's no different from being convinced that NASA
invented Velcro which to this day most people believe is true because one
day someone said so and people like you passed it on. I'm not saying that
you're intentionally full of it, just that it isn't true, and you should
study the subject in more detail before you un-educate others with your
flawed knowledge. This also goes for the rest of you who have been making
that exact statement for years.
And don't give me that bs about ATI ever saying that you should uninstall
the old driver before you install a new one. It's similar to MS saying that
you should reboot the OS after every install (back in win 98 days) when in
fact, for the most part, the OS would perform flawlessly without the reboot.
The re-boot is done just in case, because the programmer doesn't quite
understand the system he's developed so just-in-case rebooting does the job,
he'll recommend for the user to do so after he's done creating his
application
...I can already see the 'shit storm' coming my way.
No. Uninstall the old ones and then reboot first.
Troll ALERT!
PLONK!!
