Installing/uninstalling driver question

[Jonuhh]

Hey guys, so I was curious about one thing in particular. When you're switching from AMD to nViDia for a upgrade it's obvious I should uninstall AMD drivers fully (from control panel) and then slap in the new card and install the nViDia drivers. However I'm curious if I should leave physX installed (as it was installed about a year ago when I last reformatted). Should I leave physX installed or uninstall it as well? Also should I take the necessary precautions of removing every single file associated with the AMD drivers? I'm talking hidden folders and going into regedit to delete them or is control panel uninstalling good enough? Thanks.

 

[Math Geek]

i usually uninstall everything through the device manager. whatever this removes is all i normally bother with. this should be the drivers and associated control panels and such.

getting registry entries and such gone as well as folders is not going to hurt anything either. not needed but won't hurt. i can be ocd sometimes and will occasionally go through the registry and folders for old entries i can delete. if it bothers you then remove it. if not it won't hurt anything to leave it.

 

[Jonuhh]

i usually uninstall everything through the device manager. whatever this removes is all i normally bother with. this should be the drivers and associated control panels and such.

getting registry entries and such gone as well as folders is not going to hurt anything either. not needed but won't hurt. i can be ocd sometimes and will occasionally go through the registry and folders for old entries i can delete. if it bothers you then remove it. if not it won't hurt anything to leave it.

I see, this answers MOST of the question. What about the physX? Just leave it?

 

[Math Geek]

you caught me, i was hoping you would let that slide i have never messed with physX and have no idea what to do with it. if you are not using it, then i'd delete it. i think it only works on nvidia cards anyway so it would be useless with an amd gpu in the pc.

 

[Jonuhh]

you caught me, i was hoping you would let that slide i have never messed with physX and have no idea what to do with it. if you are not using it, then i'd delete it. i think it only works on nvidia cards anyway so it would be useless with an amd gpu in the pc.

It's mainly due to games forcing an install, I'll just remove it whenever i get the new card and see how it goes from there. Thanks