What install first?

Kostek

What is beter to install first Drivers or Direct X?

Spyre

Direct X

bananaman

another vote for Direct X

Mort_Cinder

agree, directx first then the drivers.

Tipstaff

Err.. nope.. one particular driver first.. that being the Chipset driver, and then Direct X. Without the chipset driver DirectX won't be of any use, nor will it know what you 'basically' have.

In otherwords, it's not a good idea to install the cart before the horse.

Rule of thumb: chipset, ide, directX, video, sound (or vice versa if the sound driver requires at least 24bit color to display it's god damn flash installer.. stupid Creative Labs), then everything else.

In the case of the Hyperion driver it includes chipset, ide, and agp drivers. So, after you install it you'd do DirectX then the rest. Intel would be the above 'rule of thumb', but if you have a system that needs the 'Intel Application Accelerator' you would install this as the IDE driver. For Nvidia.. run the NForce files, then DirectX, then the rest.

-Tip

mario620

tipstaff...ripped the words right out of my mouth.

Kostek

Thanks everyone this helped me a lot. A have another question:
After i've installed new driver few times do i need to install everything from the beginig to have better perfomance and stability?

bananaman

I think you are asking about updating drivers. As a rule use Drivercleaner (which is linked form the main site) and this will clear out the crap left over from the previous driver.

And after a while it doesn't do any harm to format and install Windows fresh - it will feel quicker as it will clear out the general crap that you slowly accumulate through windows usage.

hope that answers your Q

nana