I'm curious, what's the prevailing wisdom on driver installation these days? Is the old wisdom of completely remove, reboot, install still valid or can you just install the new drivers right on top of the old ones?You can install right over top like everyone else has said. The only time you need to do anything like that is if you're downgrading. Then it's remove, reboot, install new drivers(and in some cases wipe with something like driver cleaner).
Right on top. Doesn't even require reboot. It's awesome.
Ever since I moved to Vista (and now Windows 7), I have always installed Catalysts right on top of older ones, and that's always worked fine for me. I've only ever had one issue under Windows 7 (not being able to use non-widescreen resolutions for older games without stretching the image) which was fixed with a driver reinstall, but a lot of other people had the same issue and it's apparently caused by Windows Update installing an older driver on top of the currently installed one.
I'm curious, what's the prevailing wisdom on driver installation these days? Is the old wisdom of completely remove, reboot, install still valid or can you just install the new drivers right on top of the old ones?
Yeah. Don't buy Sapphire to reduce your chances of a bad unit. They are cheaper for a reason...
Maybe it's some settings in your CCC?
"tripping"? Did you mean, chirping? If so that's usually a bad cap and that happens to every company. It's easily fixed or you can replace the card itself. Having owned both Nvidia and ATI cards over the years, I've had problems on both sides of the fence but most of them are a result of faulty components or driver issues that get remedied.
My 5870 is still tripping.
Great.
ATI never ever again. To bad I had to learn that the hard way.
ATI never ever again. To bad I had to learn that the hard way.