is this right??

[B00mer00]

i just installed a 9800 pro 256 and in the device manager the 9800 pro is listed twice one saying "9800 PRO" and the other saying "9800 PRO - secondary." is it supposed to be like this? i ask because whenever i try to run doom 3 it crashes before it even launches the game, and the only reason i can think of why it would do that is because of this. im currently running on the catalyst 4.7's on an xp2600+ with 512mb of ram.

 

[Jmman]

All 9800's have that. It must be something else....

 

[Childs]

As Jmman said all 9800's have that. Probably for the two video ports on the card. If you purchased the game call Activision support.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: B00mer00
i just installed a 9800 pro 256 and in the device manager the 9800 pro is listed twice one saying "9800 PRO" and the other saying "9800 PRO - secondary." is it supposed to be like this? i ask because whenever i try to run doom 3 it crashes before it even launches the game, and the only reason i can think of why it would do that is because of this. im currently running on the catalyst 4.7's on an xp2600+ with 512mb of ram.

Install 4.9b
DIII crashes with some radeons with 4.7

 

[firerock]

I believe the 9800 Pro Secondary is for the dual display function. If the card supports dual monitor, it will have Primary and secondary listed in the display device manager

 

[Gamingphreek]

All ATI cards are like that. The second device listing is for the dual display function. To fix the problem i would recommend using the latest drivers and if that doesn' work ive the omega drivers a chance they are pretty good.

-Kevin