Driver cleaner?

[Mr Bob]

I'll be upgrading my BFG 6600 GT OC card to an MSI Radeon x1800 XT 256MB. Do I need to run a driver cleaner program to ensure a fresh install of drivers? Or should I just do a normal uninstall?

 

[Noema]

Definetly use Drivercleaner in safe mode after uninstalling the drivers, specially since you are going from Nvidia to ATI.

 

[Mr Bob]

You cap the D on Drivercleaner, does that mean you are talking about http://www.drivercleaner.net/ ?

Thx for the reminder about safe mode, I would have forgot about that lol

 

[Captante]

Good luck with the Nvidia to ATI conversion ... I've had it work & not work, driver-cleaner use notwithstanding, but it does improve your odds quite a bit.
Word to the wise though, back up all your critical data now before you touch anything if you havn't already just in case things head south & you have to re-install .. it sucks doing it in VGA-mode!

 

[Mr Bob]

So which driver cleaner do I use?

 

[Captante]

I've had decent luck with this one:

http://www.drivercleaner.net/

Edit: I've only used the free version.