Updating Cat drivers

[Mister Natural]

I'm relatively new to the ATI video card club. In the past with my Nvidia cards I always uninstalled the old driver and running R.I.P. or similar utility before installing the new driver.
I was wondering for those more familiar with ATI drivers, do you folks have much success just installing the new drivers on top of the old, or do you uninstall the old ones first?

 

[theNoid]

I've always just installed over the originals and never had a problem.. gg ATI..

btw.. 100 POSTS!!

 

[MontyAC]

Same here, I just install over the old ones. No problems thus far.

 

[AmpCoder]

Some people just install over the old ones and never have problems with it. Others say to always uninstall the old and then install the new, but I have never had problems doing it either way..

 

[Brent_Justice]

According to ATI you should run the uninstaller and uninstall the current drivers and then install the new ones.

However, I, as well as others, have had success in just installing them over the old.

 

[Bighitter]

Whats the driver version and date being listed in XP for you guys with the 4.1 cats?

 

[Brent_Justice]

Originally posted by Bighitter
Whats the driver version and date being listed in XP for you guys with the 4.1 cats?

according to the options tab on my computer

CATALYST Version: 04.1
2D Version: 6.14.10.6414
Packaging Version: 7.97-031212a-013118C

Under Device Manager the Driver Date says 12/12/2003

 

[Mister Natural]

Well I installed on top and all seems well. I did disable AV when running install though.

 

[Bighitter]

Thanks Brent,

I thought I was going crazy there because of the date listed via device manager.