new card coming in tomorrow, so ?time

[Richard R.]

using a 9000pro 128 meg card now, and the 9600pro 128 should be here tomorrow,,,

so, am i to uninstall all drivers and then reinstall?

using the latest catalyst drivers now and dx9.0b i believe at this time, and am wondering if the newer card will just install with the drivers i have here now, or do i need to go to a standard vga display, then install the new card, then the drivers

[drzaius2]

i've never had problems just putting in the new ATi card and then reinstalling the driver set..

windows finds the card fine.. but it doesn't re-do the control panel.. so that's why i have to reinstall the driver set.

[F_A_L_C_O_N]

I had to reinstall going from R7500 to R8500, since there were some issues I couldnt resolve, R9000 and R9600 have different core as well so you might have some problems

at a minimum I would unistall old drivers and control panel then clean up the registry with somethin like regcleaner before restarting system and doing a fresh install of a new card

[Richard R.]

ok, will do, will wipe the drivers now in here and reinstall with new card for the 9600

[Richard R.]

Alright, it came in, installed and seems all is well so far.

Installed rage 3d and am wondering if it is what most use, or should I use something else?

Anyway, what else do I need to do. Any ideas on tweaking or anything. Anything to look for. I really don't see anything about AA and or FA or whatever it is I hear some of ya talk about. Not sure about some settings and such.

What bench mark app should I or could I use to check this thing out?

[F_A_L_C_O_N]

In control panel under "3D" go to "custom" settings iether for OpenGl or Direct3D there is the option for AA and AF

[Richard R.]

went ahead and got rid of rage 3d and went with radclocker,,seems simpler to use,,lol