Thanks for the info. Sounds like everyone tends to choose the first one
(if choice is there). The games I'm referring to are MidTown Madness,
Midtown Madness 2, Star Trek Bridge Commander, and one of my demos (I
think the Unreal 2 Demo). In most games I've played, when you set video
options, one of them is to select a video card. The choices are
normally the name of the actual card, or "default video card", which are
usually one-in-the-same.
But wasn't sure on the Radeon, since it's listed twice, because Device
Manager shows 2 cards...1 primary and 2 secondary.
Anyway, the main reason I ask, is because I tried ST Bridge Commander
for the first time using the Radeon 9800 yesterday. It had chosen the
2nd Radeon for the graphics card. I didn't think it mattered, so I left it.
After 5 minutes into the game, I got an error "STBC.EXE...yada-yada",
with option to send error to Microsoft. Never happened before with
previous GeForce4 Ti-4600. I'll reset the graphics card to the primary,
and see if I can get this game to run without any errors. Hope so, cuz
this is one of my fav games. Thx again.
jj
p.s. FWIW, just ran first AquaMark benchmark, score of 44,027 with
default settings. I guess that's somewhere in the middle. I think the
higher scores were oc'ers, cuz their CPU scores were way high.
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Derek wrote:
> Its normal to have two entries. All I did was disable the secondary entry
> in Device Manager, as I don't use a second monitor.
>
> Derek
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> "JAD" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>i believe this was addressed in another Post here....it has do with the
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> Second display port OR the TV out. It seems to duplicate the
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>>adapter.
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>>"jj" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> news:ClEdb.33992$(E-Mail Removed)...
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>>>Only had my Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB for 1 week now. My first ATI card in
>>>many years. With my WinXP PC, in Device Manager, the card shows up
>>>twice....once as Radeon 9800 Pro, and once as Radeon 9800 Pro
>>>(Secondary). ATI Tech Support said this was normal. OK, no problem.
>>>
>>>But, when configuring all my 3D games, you have to select a video card.
>>> Both the Radeon options show up in the lists. In all the games, the
>>>game itself defaulted to the 2nd card, which was Radeon Pro (Secondary).
>>> Not sure if there was any "intelligence" at work, in these automatic
>>>selections.
>>>
>>>Does it matter which one you select in your 3D games, i.e., Primary or
>>>Secondary? Should you always select the first Radeon? Appreciate any
>>>advice. I don't know why this question isn't answered in the
>>>documentation provided with the card, or on ATI's web site. Thanks.
>>>
>>>jj
>>>
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