A little confused with ATI drivers

[Rhonda85]

I am about to swap my geforce mx440 video card with an ATI radeon 9600XT and I am a little concerned with the ATI catalyst drivers. I have been hearing some complaints with the catalyst setup and how they can be a resource hog. I have been looking into the drivers from omegadrivers.net. I do not care to install any special software like m$ .net framework just to use the video card. I just want the card to work properly and maybe OC it a little. Also, when I swap the geforce for the radeon, should I uninstall the nivida drivers from add/remove programs?

Thanks for your replies.

 

[Bucksnort]

I feel the same. I use the original control panel instead of the damn ccc bloatware. If you go to ati site, clik on drivers and software at top then navigate to windows xp drivers and software, fire mv, FireMV? Series (2200 PCI/2200 PCIe/2400 PCI)
Current Microsoft certified WHQL Drivers
Download the display driver with control panel. That will install latest cat 6.3 with the control panel. It is the driver and control panel and I am using it. never will I use ccc and install that damn .net
For proper removal of driver uninstall in add remove programs then reboot into safemode and run driver cleaner selecting Nvidia. Reboot and when xp asks for install drivers auto etc then clik on cancel. Now install the ati drivers.

 

[BFG10K]

Use add/remove programs, then install the base ATi driver with ATi Tray Tools.

 

[kmmatney]

I just use the base driver and ATI Tray tools. For a 9600XT, will probably won't need much more than the base drivers.

I would uninstall the NVidia drivers first, although I've persoanlly never had any trouble whenever I forgot to do that first.