7900GT to X1900XTX help

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I'm expecting my X1900 to arrive today, and it will be replacing a 7800GT. I've very little experience with changing video cards, but I'm told that there can be driver issues. My understanding is that I should purge any NVidia drivers before installing the ATI card and drivers. What's the easiest way to do that? Also, I've heard that lots of people gripe about this Catalyst stuff from ATI. What is bad about it, and what's a good alternative? I am using this for Oblivion and plan to tweak the hell out of it, so I need something accommodating. Thanks!

 

[josh6079]

I'm just transferring from a 7800GT SLI to x1900XTX today.

Unistall your Nvidia Display Drivers form the Control Panel.

Restart.

Use Driver Cleaner Pro to sweep away any existing Nvidia Display Drivers.

Restart

Install new ATI Drivers

Restart

Run Driver Cleaner Pro again on Nvidia Display Drivers, just to make sure that there are no Nvidia Display Drivers in ANY cache ANYWHERE.

Restart.

Have fun, you'll notice the difference, I have anyway.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Awesome. I am assuming that after the first restart, I should cancel any "Found new Hardware, would you like to isntall this now?" prompts?

And, at what point in this process should I physically change the cards?

I'm hoping the change will be well worth it. I am doing this because the 7800GT is performing like a wet noodle with Oblivion; and the few benches have really bolstered up the single-card XTX solution as being a winner. It's funny... before Oblivion came out, I was so sure the 7800 would handle it just fine. WOW was I wrong...

Are you using the CCC, or did you find another program?

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: josh6079
I'm just transferring from a 7800GT SLI to x1900XTX today.

Unistall your Nvidia Display Drivers form the Control Panel.

Restart.

Use Driver Cleaner Pro IN SAFE MODE to sweep away any existing Nvidia Display Drivers.

Restart

Install new ATI Drivers

Restart

Run Driver Cleaner Pro again on Nvidia Display Drivers, just to make sure that there are no Nvidia Display Drivers in ANY cache ANYWHERE.

Restart.

Have fun, you'll notice the difference, I have anyway.

fixed. You can't remove drivers with Driver Cleaner Pro unless your in safe mode.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Safe mode huh? That's a good detail to include. That should be easy enough.