when installing new driver do i need to uninstall the old ones?

bigboi972

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I currently have an amd radeon 5850 and I am having a little trouble playing black ops 2 when I play the game everything works fine and smooth besides when i zoom in with a gun my fps drops significantly so i decided to try and update my drivers do i need to uninstall the old ones first. Or will installing the new drivers overwright the old ones
 

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Installing the new drivers replaces the old. There is no need to uninstall first.
 

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