From a 4890 to a 5850, do I need to reinstall drivers?

BusyBeaverHP

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My guest computer has the latest version of AMD drivers, and I'm going to replace a 4890 with a 5850. Do I need to reinstall the AMD driver, or can I just leave it alone and autodetect?
 
It will auto detect. You'll probably just need to reboot.

I did it the other day with a 4850 to 5850 with the 12.4 drivers.
 
Yes, your current driver might not support the 5850 depending on how old they are. But its no big deal to switch drivers, uninstall old from control panel and install new. Simple as that.
 
If you have the latest whql Catalyst, they may detect the new card and be on their merry way.....but I have found generally you'll need to simply reinstall the current driver version again.

No need to uninstall since it's the same version, but most of the time you'll just need to reinstall the Catalyst package again.:D
 
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