WARNING About New ATI 6.1 Drivers!

[trowand]

Hey, I know some people say that you should always uninstall your old graphics drivers before you install new ones but I fell into the habit of just installing the new ones over top of the old ones because it never seemed to make a difference. Well, I recently installed both the new ATI 6.1 drivers and the ATI Tool overclocking utility and my performance went downhill BIG TIME. I can't remember in what order I installed them (I think I installed the 6.1's first) but after doing so, I ran a few benchmarks and my scores dropped anywhere from 20%-50%! Seriously, my AquaMark3 score went from 65+K to 52K and my 3DMark03 score got cut in half and dropped from 13K to 6500! Plus my BF2 and FEAR gameplay seemed to take a hit so I knew something was wrong. So anyway, I finally decided to take the time to try and figure it out and first uninstalled ATI Tool and did a restart, then I used the ATI uninstall utility to get rid of the old drivers and did a restart, then I downloaded the most recent Driver Cleaner Pro and ran that and did a restart. Then I went to ATI's site and downloaded and installed the 6.1's again and guess what?! BINGO! My scores were back up where they belong! Just FYI!

[flawedreality5]

How are the new drivers anyway? Any improvements on the Control Center?

[TwoRails]

That's a good tip, trowand!

[trowand]

I was never that familiar with CCC to begin with since I always avoided it much like everyone else did. I think I still prefer the old format but it's the same thing anyway, it just looks prettier now is all. And thanks Two Rails!

[flawedreality5]

That's too bad. I wish they would make a Lite version or something of it. I'm still very happy with the Control Panel from version 5.11.

[blue60007]

I was always under the impression that you should *always* uninstall the old drivers first...but now we know that doesn't work in this case...thanks for the heads up.