quick question, need some help.

[Mongoo]

I read that you are suppose to uninstall the nvidia display drivers before you update the driver.

I own a Leadtek Winfast PX6600 GT TDH. When I go to remove programs I see an nvidia driver and a winfast display driver. This might be because I installed the driver I got from the winfast cd and also updated it. I never unistalled the winfast driver, so maybe thats why there are two drivers. But I"m unsure if thats the reason.


Do you think I should uninstall both the nvidia driver and the winfast display driver before I install the new driver?

Thanks.

 

[hans030390]

yeah uninstall both, and then use driver cleaner to clean everything out

and by the way, the winfast drivers suck badly...get the 76.10 beta drivers you want proff?

Winfast drivers on 3dmark 03 got 4700 got 2800 on 3dmark05

nvidia 76.10 drivers got 7700 on 03 and 3200 on 05

just wanted to tell you

 

[Mongoo]

What is driver cleaner?

I did uninstall booth but didn't know about the cleaner. Where can I get that? And in that case should I uninstall this new driver and then use the cleaner and reinstall the new driver again?

Thanks

 

[runestone]

http://www.drivercleaner.net/

 

[Rike]

Video Driver Uninstall/Install
1. Uninstall current vid driver
2. Reboot
3. As the reboot comes up, after the quick mem test and drives have been recognized, hit F8 and enter "SAFE MODE"
4. When safe mode comes up, do not let Windows install a vid driver. Hit cancel.
5. Run Drive Cleaner with the filter for the driver (ATI, nVidia, ect.) you just uninstalled . Quit and repeat #2-#4
6. Install new vid driver.
7. Reboot
8. Enjoy

This method has worked well for me.

 

[Mongoo]

how much improvement can I expect to get by doing this instead of just uninstalling rebooting and then installing the new driver?

Thanks

 

[Rike]

It's not so much a performance improvement in terms of more FPS as it is an improvement in stability. Granted, when just upgrading a driver, it is not as important as it is when upgrading to a different manufacture's card (ATI to nVidia or vise versa).

If you're not hard core about upgrading drivers, say your just moving from one official driver to the next, you can just do a simple uninstall/install. People do it everyday day and their computers run fine. Many people don't even uninstall before they load the new drivers and it still works. All that said, the cleanest way I know of doing things, short of a total reformat and install, is to do things as I listed above.