Upgrading Nvidia's Detonator drivers

[Corey]

In the past on Win 98 and XP I have always gone to the Control Panel and selected Add/Remove Programs and taken the drivers out for my video cards.
I then reboot and Windows detects the card and I then execute the drivers package.

Of course I have to go through Nvidia's setup wizard again and do all my settings which can take a while.
Is it OK instead to just execute the new drivers setup file without removing the old drivers, or is it best to still delete the old drivers first?

Thanks, Corey

 

[MDE]

I don't bother uninstalling the old ones, haven't had a problem

 

[Big Lar]

I do an uninstall of the drivers/reboot/ then run drive cleaner/reboot, then when windows asks for where to find the drivers, I cancel, then install, not a prob to date with that method.

 

[BFG10K]

An add/remove operation on the old driver is all you need. All vendors recommend this step.

 

[BenSkywalker]

It is reccomended that you uninstall your old drivers first. Never do it myself with nV, I just install the new ones. You won't keep all of your settings, and you have to reinstall CoolBits(the two clicks it takes 😉 ) but it saves you a reboot to VGA mode at least.

 

[Corey]

Thanks for the replies.
I think I will just remove the older ones, reboot, then load the newer package.

CoolBits, I have not seen that in the Detonator setup before.

 

[Jeff7181]

I never bother uninstalling the old drivers (by the way, they're Forceware now, not Detonator).