Skyrim - 560ti runs better than new 7950?

[VulgarDisplay]

Lazy has nothing to do with it. No one wants to buy something brand new and have to do additional work to get it going.

Properly uninstalling and installing the GPU is additional work? lol

 

[Rvenger]

OP, you could have overwritten your existing drivers. 99% of the time it doesn't hurt anything. The only time when it could pose an issue is when you overwrite every single driver iteration from a year ago. If you are running Windows 8 your not the only one with issues, especially if you used the official uninstall tool.

 

[Tweak155]

Properly uninstalling and installing the GPU is additional work? lol

No, but apparently reading the thread you decide to post in is.

 

[Mogadon]

What exactly entails a "clean install?" I completely uninstalled the 13.1's using AMD's uninstall tool from the control panel. Then downloaded and installed the 13.2's. Not to fuel this AMD/Nvidia war, but when I update my Nvidia drivers I usually just go right over the top of the previous ones(not the greatest practice I know, but i've never had any issues.) It seems a little ridiculous if I have to do more than using a tool that AMD provides.

I'm not weighing in on the manufacturer war but what you're saying with regards to updating AMD drivers is wrong.

As I indicated earlier in the thread, there's no requirement for a clean install when updating AMD drivers. If you have CCC running you can go directly to the update utility and simply follow the prompts. I don't think there's even a requirement for reboot, although you may want to.

I just wanted to clarify that so people don't think, as you may have been misled to believe, that a clean install is a requirement to update AMD drivers (we don't want to add fuel to the fire here).

I have three machines running AMD cards and have not done a clean install for about a year when updating their drivers to the latest version.

The idea you need to do a clean install seems like a throwback to pre-2012, when this functionality was not built in by manufacturers. I'm sure there are instances when things may go wrong and a clean installation becomes a solution to a problem, but for a regular update it just doesn't seem necessary, as the functionality is built right into the product.

 

[UaVaj]

unless it is a true standalone program. video driver obviously not standalone.

uninstall does not = 100% removal. hence the need for clean install.

post #9 and #14 clearly proves clean install with the latest driver fixes the issue.