Driver Sweeper? Yay or Nay

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/527615-amd-10-10-reference-driver-discussion-20.html

The above thread has two opposing views on using driver sweeper to clear out any leftover ATI driver software in preparation for a GPU driver update. Should we be using this for all ATI drivers after 10.6? There's a suggestion it will mess up your registry

Can anyone shed any light on this?

 

nay as of amd 10.6

it was great for previous version but until they provide an updated working version it's nay and newer ati driver don,t need it for a reinstall anymore unless you are doing something wrong

 

Yeah it was that comment you made that confused me. Why then everytime I uninstall using CCC does Driver Sweeper always find left over software? Surely this should also be removed if I want to remove the program (for whatever reason). The general consensus on these forums is that people should uninstall using CCC, run CCleaner & Driver sweeper in safe mode before installing the new drivers.

 

the general consensus was that we had to run thi because ati was leaving part of the driver there but since 10.6 it hardly leave any software part

what driver sweeper find when you run it are registrie key they are in even when you jsut did a fresh install and it seem like the newer driver rely on these when reinstalling where the previous version where rewriting it

so when you sweep them out the reinstaller just fails i don,t know how or why they changed this i just know that something in the driver intaller way of working changed and since then i just used uninstall reinstall and haven't had any issue where i keep reading that XXX failed at einstaling his driver after using driver sweeper

 

so post 10.6 you just install new drivers on top and they get removed automatically?

 

theoricaly yes but i my self use the uninstal function and then reinstal

 

What about if you want to roll back to a previous driver? I am currently on 10.10 but I would prefer to use the latest Dell version - however it won't install correctly. Surely if I update my driver (and subsequently the registry keys as a result) then if I want to roll back, the older driver may not work properly because the registry has updated incompatible files. What would you recommend doing in this instance? Sorry for all the question but I'm just trying to get a best practice

 

theoricaly dell last version 10.8 can be instaled after just using the uninstal but you likely can't go back farther then 10.8

 

I'm going to disagree with you granyte. I've run driver sweeper like numerous times (perhaps like 50 by now after last 2 days problems I had).

I was running at 10.10 at one point, and trying to get to 10.10c messed the whole system up which led to the mass discussions in the 10.10 thread posted above.

You say that driver sweeper messes the comp up and you have no choice but to the a clean reformat (win7 install). I can happily tell you that I am back to 10.8's now, much thanks to Joker (and no thansk to microsofts driver inteference etc etc..), and I have done it without a reformat.

So driver sweeper is still fine. But yes you are right.. you shouldn't need to use driver sweeper anymore, as a full uninstall of CCC should in theory do what you need it to do. There was just a bit more tinkering needed, as something was messed up in my computer alone (which was before I ever installed driver sweeper on my computer).

So in short, driver sweeper used (didn't fix problem, but it didn't require a reformat/clean wipe). Safe to use still as proof of my computer.

 

i guess they fixed it the most thread saying " i tryed to update my driver and used driver sweeper now my computer is driverless" hapened during the 10.6 10.8 time