Hey Ati users, I'm getting my 6970m soon, my first ever ATi card and I wonder how to setup the drivers. I'll be uninstalling the nvidia ones, safe mode driver sweeper then ccleaner registry clean to get rid of all remnants of nvidia. Then what? There are the 11.5 ones then the 11.5a hotfix, what's that about? Do I install the latter on top off the 11.5 or...
ATi noob here so any help will be appreciated and rep'd.
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you can just install the hot fix driver by itself. you shouldn't run into any issues.
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Yeah, and as far as I can tell the Nvidia drivers uninstall pretty clean from withing normally booted Windows. There's not much left for Ccleaner. I don't use driver sweeper anymore, seems unnecessary since the uninstallation is really good imo. Never had issues.
Just make sure to disable the automatic driver install from Windows, otherwise it will install a standard driver automatically (from the web or if you still have the install file from the Nvidia driver on your HDD directly from this file... pretty amusing, you uninstall and a couple of minutes the driver is installed again, hehe.)
Actually it shouldn't really matter when you don't have the proper driver installed and exchange the card... I experienced this recently. Windows just uses a generic driver (low res) and says "Error, no proper driver installed for this hardware".
Install procedure for ATi card that replaces Nvidia
Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by widezu69, May 13, 2011.