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Recommendations for a new ATI user

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Just made the switch to ATI (have an MSI RX800Pro) after many years of nVidia use and am wondering whether or not there are any things I should know about ATI cards/drivers etc?
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Uninstall your nvidia drivers, get driver cleaner, boot into safe mode and use the program to eliminate all traces of the NV sotware, then boot normally to install the ATI drivers.
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You're going to need the Microsoft .NET Framework in order to install the newest ATI drivers. Get it from Windows Update.
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The Kernel wrote:You're going to need the Microsoft .NET Framework in order to install the newest ATI drivers. Get it from Windows Update.
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All the more reason to stay NVIDIA

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I just installed the latest ATI drivers without .NET. You only need .NET if you want to install their full-blown technowank CATALYST control centre. Basic graphic card drivers, functionality, and control panel software installs just fine without it.
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Darth Wong wrote:I just installed the latest ATI drivers without .NET. You only need .NET if you want to install their full-blown technowank CATALYST control centre. Basic graphic card drivers, functionality, and control panel software installs just fine without it.
They will only support the legacy release for a very short time according to ATI PR people. Soon you will have no choice but to move to .NET.
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The Kernel wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:I just installed the latest ATI drivers without .NET. You only need .NET if you want to install their full-blown technowank CATALYST control centre. Basic graphic card drivers, functionality, and control panel software installs just fine without it.
They will only support the legacy release for a very short time according to ATI PR people. Soon you will have no choice but to move to .NET.
So you're saying that resistance is futile?
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Darth Wong wrote: So you're saying that resistance is futile?
More or less. Preperations for Longhorn mean that both nVidia and ATI are moving to .NET for their drivers and they will have to both cease supporting their legacy control panels at some point.
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The Kernel wrote:More or less. Preperations for Longhorn mean that both nVidia and ATI are moving to .NET for their drivers and they will have to both cease supporting their legacy control panels at some point.
Not to mention the new CCC drivers, except their inside horrible loading times from menu to menu, give nice preformance boosts to any card, even a dusty 9700 Pro.
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