Installing video drivers from scratch in XP

I use a v5500 to play Tribes1. As of yesterday, my fps have gone from 70-120 to 8-20.

I was running a dual monitor setup and started experiencing probs with the monitor so I updated the drivers for that card (simple matrox mill II since my 2nd v5500 blew on me).

After installing the drivers on the ancient card, my fps took a shit in Tribes. I have since then taken out the card and un-installed all drivers (to my knowledge).

Now, being that my v5500 is the sole card, I went ahead and re-installed the 3rd party drivers I had been using for quite some time, Amigamerlin 2.1.

Now I am getting device failure errors and windows XP drops into 8 bit mode every so often.

What I want to know, is if there is a program to completely wipe out the current drivers in use, or a way to de-reference the drivers being used.

I've un-installed the drivers for the v5500 but XP seems to pick them right back up upon reboot.

Any suggestions what to do?

edit: This is an example of what tribes looks liek now :(
http://hosted.tribalwar.com/sarca/temp/sshot0058.JPG

Sarc isn't that pic in software mode??? Change it back to glide! ;)

yeah i hated that about xp. i used to use the amigerlin drivers also till i somehow f'ed it up. i never did find a way to get back my glide back so i bought a new card and switched to 2k :[

Couldn't you disable the hardware profile for the V5 and then install your custom drivers? Not sure if that would work though.

I fixed it about 30 mins after this post.

I just went around C&Ping the glide2x, 3x .dll's from the Amigamerlin 2.5 setup.

As far as it being in software, it was set to glide, and it would start as glide but would somehow go into software. When I tried to go back into glide mode and upon clicking the apply button, nada would happen.

It's fixed now, and it's looking even better than it was before.

yay :)

You could pull down the console after the game loads to menu and see if there are any error messages that would help pinpoint the problem.

I'm glad you fixed it though.