Questions regarding upgrade from 8800 GTS 640mb to GTX 460 1gb

[dukdukgoos]

I have the latest driver installed. Do I need to uninstall the drivers before putting the new card in, or is it fine to leave it since it's the same driver I'd be using if I was installing it fresh? I was planning on at least uninstalling the 8800 reference from the device manager before putting the new card in. Is there some best practice for installing a new card of the same brand/driver type?

Thanks!

 

[Seero]

I have the latest driver installed. Do I need to uninstall the drivers before putting the new card in, or is it fine to leave it since it's the same driver I'd be using if I was installing it fresh? I was planning on at least uninstalling the 8800 reference from the device manager before putting the new card in. Is there some best practice for installing a new card of the same brand/driver type?

Thanks!

It is okay to leave the card in. It is better to reinstall drivers even though it uses the same driver.

The best practice:
install the card physically, make sure everything is plugged in.
start OS and get a free registry cleaner off the web. CCleaner is free.
install the cleaner and reboot to save mode.
uninstall video card driver.
reboot back into save mode.
run cleaner.
install driver.
reboot back to normal
run cleaner.

 

[toyota]

there is no need to do all that when going from one Nvidia card to another. just uninstall the old card in device manger along with the drivers and turn off the pc and of course unplug it now. then install the new card reboot and install the drivers and thats it. also with Nvidia cards all you need to do is just install a new driver on top of the old one whenever you update drivers in the future.

 

[Leyawiin]

I pulled my GTX 260 (sold it), put in an old backup 9600 GSO until my GTX 460 arrived and then pulled that and put the new card in. Windows recognized each card and loaded the drivers in a few seconds for them (and they all played fine)

You don't need to uninstall, clean, reinstall.