Installing the Ati Radeon 9000 series the right way?

dguy6789

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Dec 9, 2002
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all this deleting old driver stuff is a bunch of crap. I have installed countless video cards of many make, and noty once did i uninstall a driver. i just installed the latest for that particular card and it worked without the slightest problem. i can go back and forth between all kinds of cards without uninstalling a thing and they all work perfectly, i have no idea why people say they have problems when they do, they just probably did something wrong in the first place. I use windows xp pro. the reason you dont have to reinstall drivers is if you intall them they are added to the win xp driver data base. and uninstalling them is pointless, every time win xp starts up it checks if your current vid card is compatible with the current set of drivers ,if not it just give you defualt drivers untill you get the newest ones. just put it in the agp slot, goto ati.com and get the cat 3.4s, there your done.
 
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Originally posted by: dguy6789
all this deleting old driver stuff is a bunch of crap. I have installed countless video cards of many make, and noty once did i uninstall a driver. i just installed the latest for that particular card and it worked without the slightest problem. i can go back and forth between all kinds of cards without uninstalling a thing and they all work perfectly, i have no idea why people say they have problems when they do, they just probably did something wrong in the first place. I use windows xp pro. the reason you dont have to reinstall drivers is if you intall them they are added to the win xp driver data base. and uninstalling them is pointless, every time win xp starts up it checks if your current vid card is compatible with the current set of drivers ,if not it just give you defualt drivers untill you get the newest ones. just put it in the agp slot, goto ati.com and get the cat 3.4s, there your done.

your kidding right? when i got my 9700 pro i forgot to install old ti4200 drivers and i would get 3dmark2001 scores of 7000 on a p4 2.4. go into control panel, device manager, pick the video card, and uninstall it from there