Moving from Nvidia to ATI, any issues?

[Eradicator]

I am considering moving from my current GF2 GTS to an ATI Radeon based card. Not sure which one yet, possible a 9600 (regular). I would ideally like to spend no more than $75 but that may be difficult. I tried the refurb at newegg route with a ti4200 but the card was DOA so I am going to go new this time.

Will it be a simple matter of uninstalling my nvidia drivers, shutting down the PC, replacing the nvidia card with the ATI card and booting up and installing the ATI drivers?

I recall trying to switch to a ViperII many years ago and I was getting all kinds of issues due to left over nvidia driver and registry components. Is this no longer the case? Will I have to clean out the drivers? How? I am running XP Pro.

Thanks!

 

[rbV5]

Go and get DriverCleaner to remove the nvidia driver first and it should go fine.

 

[VIAN]

I didn't use driver cleaner and I had no problems.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: rbV5
Go and get DriverCleaner to remove the nvidia driver first and it should go fine.

 

[Blastman]

Will it be a simple matter of uninstalling my nvidia drivers, shutting down the PC, replacing the nvidia card with the ATI card and booting up and installing the ATI drivers?

Probably should restart the computer and let the default settings take place after removing the NV drivers, then shut down again and change cards. (don?t know if that?s necessary but that?s the way I would do it).

I?ve heard of lots of people just removing the NV drivers and installing a ATI card without drivercleaner -- and no problems.

 

[Mem]

I used Driver Cleaner when I went from Nvidia to ATi, just follow the instructions in the readme file and you should find it a simple process,btw I had no problems .

 

[m3jsh]

yeah man, i put a radeon 9600 in my system and it was fine, i had a geforce2 pro

 

[Gagabiji]

Originally posted by: rbV5
Go and get DriverCleaner to remove the nvidia driver first and it should go fine.

 

[BFG10K]

Yeah a simply add/remove programs should do fine; you shouldn't need driver cleaner.

 

[nick1985]

i would suggest saving up a few more bucks and getting the 9600pro...the 9600 standard isnt that great

 

[clicknext]

I just moved a school computer from Geforce FX5600 to Radeon9600 Pro today, and it worked perfectly.

1. Uninstall Nvidia drivers
2. Reboot into Safe Mode
3. Run Driver Cleaner for Nvidia items
4. Reboot into normal windows
5. Install ATI Drivers
6. Reboot and done.

 

[Marsumane]

If you are looking to spend only around 75, then up it by 10 bucks and just get a geforce4 ti 4200. for the money, u wont get any better frames with any other card. This card pulls as many frames as the 9600 ur looking to buy, just its only dx8.1, but still cheaper and faster in most cases.

 

[clicknext]

Originally posted by: Marsumane
If you are looking to spend only around 75, then up it by 10 bucks and just get a geforce4 ti 4200. for the money, u wont get any better frames with any other card. This card pulls as many frames as the 9600 ur looking to buy, just its only dx8.1, but still cheaper and faster in most cases.

I agree. Now the 9600 Pro would be a comletely different case, but you're not going to find one for $75.

 

[Blastman]

Make sure you don?t get the low profile Sapphire 9600 $94 ? 64bit memory bus even though they don?t say. Get this one?link $95. People are getting real good overclocks with those Sapphire 9600?s.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Eradicator
I am considering moving from my current GF2 GTS to an ATI Radeon based card. Not sure which one yet, possible a 9600 (regular). I would ideally like to spend no more than $75 but that may be difficult. I tried the refurb at newegg route with a ti4200 but the card was DOA so I am going to go new this time.

Will it be a simple matter of uninstalling my nvidia drivers, shutting down the PC, replacing the nvidia card with the ATI card and booting up and installing the ATI drivers?

I recall trying to switch to a ViperII many years ago and I was getting all kinds of issues due to left over nvidia driver and registry components. Is this no longer the case? Will I have to clean out the drivers? How? I am running XP Pro.

Thanks!

The only issue you'll see is the speed difference.
Use drive cleaner as said before and there should be no problems.