ATI Technologies Radeon 9600 PRO manual

Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition User ’ s Guide P/N 137-40864-10[...]

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iii T able of Content s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 System Requirements 1 External Connections 1 Related Documentation 2 Multimedia Features 2 Viewing 3D Graphics 2 TV Out Support 3 ATI Displays Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Introduction 5 Open the ATI Displays control panel 5[...]

iv Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 FCC Compliance Informa tion 23 Industry Canada C ompliance Statement 23 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance 24 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

1 CHAPTER 1: Introduction The Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edi tion is a graphics accelerator card that delivers maxi mum program mability and entertainment value to both gamers and developers. It in cludes flexible dual-displ ay suppo rt for multiple combin ations of Digital Flat Panel and CRT monit ors. Your new graphics card provides: • Flex[...]

2 Related Do cumentation Note: Future references to Mac OS® X in this manual are intended to be generic and inclusive of their respective versions of the Macintosh® operating systems. Related Document ation The README file summarizes the la test product revisions. Click the README icon on the installation disk to open thi s file. Detailed help an[...]

TV Out Support 3 In addition, the Radeon® 960 0 PRO PC & Mac Edition offers the following g raphics technologi es: SmoothVision™ 2.1 is an antialiasing solutio n that raises th e bar for image quality using programmable m ulti -sampling method s to post-process graphics before they are displayed. SmartShader™ 2.0 contains advanced vertex a[...]

4 TV Out Support[...]

Introduction 5 CHAPTER 2: A TI Displays Control Panel Introduction The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features of that the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition has to offer. Open the A TI Displays cont rol panel 1 Open the Apple® System Prefer ences . 2 Click the AT I D i s p l a y s icon. or 1 Click the Hard Disk ico[...]

6 ATI Displays Control Panel A TI Displays Control Panel Display Info dialog shows the current display setti ngs for the displ a y. Detect Displays button detects all connected displays. This feature is useful when a second VGA monitor is co nnected to your gr aphics adapter. Detect Displays removes the n eed to restart your comp uter. Note: Y our [...]

Advanced Disp lay Options 7 To access the Advanced features open the ATI Displays control panel and click the ADVANCED button. V ersaVision™ T ab Use the VersaVision™ tab to rotate your d isplay while main taining the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technolog ies. ATI’s hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling technology prov[...]

8 Advanced Disp lay Op tions If the computer desktop, toolbar or dock exceeds the physical size of your display select Standard Underscan (87%) in th e Desktop Size drop down menu. You can also create a unique desktop size by selecting Custom and adjusting t he slider to the desired set ting.[...]

Advanced Disp lay Options 9 Display Control T ab Force Single Display Operation , wh en using a dual display video card, causes all display modes to appear as a single list of supported resolutions in the Apple® Displays Properties. Only one display is on when this feat ure is enabled. The default set tin g is Disabled. Enable GTF Modes for CRT pr[...]

10 Advanced DFP Tab Advanced DFP T ab The features on this tab are intended to support Digital Fl at Panels (DFP) only. Enable ATI Hardware Scaler on non-Apple panels can be used with flat panels with fixed resol utions. Use this feature to change vi deo modes using the ATI Scaler. Enable frequency reduction on high resolution displays ma y correct[...]

3D OpenGL® Overrides 11 Add an Application Profile To add an application to the Ap plicat ion Profile list: 1 Click th e 3D icon in A TI Displa ys. 2 Click Ad d . 3 Browse to the desired application. 4 Click Ch oose . Select or Create a Preset ATI Displays includes a numb er of pr edefined OpenGL® presets that can be applied to any app lication. [...]

12 Enabling Mac2TV™ 4 Configure the preset by making ad justm e nts to th e Performance, FSAA, Anisotropi c Filt ering, and V ertical Sync sliders. Note: The preset selections and adju stments are saved automatically as they are made. Enabling Mac2TV™ The Mac2TV™ options are available when a TV is detected by the graphics card. Mac2TV™ is o[...]

Optimizing Mac2TV™ 13 Extra Set up: Ha rd Sync to TV , when enabled, removes a black line that may appear at the bottom of the screen of high end TV equipmen t. This process slightly alters th e color across the screen. This color alteration may or may not b e visible. Unless you notice a black line on your TV screen, it is recommended to leave H[...]

14 Ratio/Size Tab The Anti-Flicker sl id er reduces the amo unt of displa y fl i cker. Display flicker is both a di straction and tiring to your eyes, and is most pron ounced when text is being displayed. The Brightness slider is related to the amount of light emitted by your display or reflected from an object. The Contrast slider is a ratio of ho[...]

Ratio/Size Tab 15 Use Aspect Ratio to select between a fully adju stable display or one lo cked to a specific aspect ratio. 4:3 Stan dard, 16.9 Widescreen, and Current screen resolution are all fixed modes. Overscan increases the vertical and horizontal size to fi ll your TV. Use Movie Mode for the best resu lts viewing TV or DVDs. Use Displa y Pos[...]

16 ATI Displays Preferences A TI Displays Preferences From the ATI Di splays drop down men u you can set the Preferences for the ATI Displays control panel. Here you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits. A TI Displays Help ATI Displays Help is an additio nal source of information when you are using the ATI Displays cont[...]

Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) 17 Using Digit al Flat Panel (DVI) Use Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition’s DVI support feature to output your com puter’s display t o your DVI di gital flat panel, providi ng you with: • Crisper , clearer images. • A true flat screen. • V irtual ly no eye strain from prolonged viewing. Using Radeon® 96[...]

18 Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) 3 T urn on your DVI flat panel and your Mac. Note: The DVI connector is hot swappa ble. Y ou no longer need to shut down your comput er befo re attach ing a digital flat panel. A dual-link DVI transmit s up to twice the amount of pi xel informati on of single link DVI connection. Use the du al-link DVI connector fo[...]

Video Mode Table 19 CHAPTER 3: S pecifications V ideo Mode T able The video mode table below lists the color depth capabil ities fo r the supported resolu tions on your R adeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edi tion. Please consult your m onitor’s specifications to determ ine which resolutions are available with your display. Supported Modes Display Re[...]

20 Video Mode Table The minimum refresh rate for the above modes is 56Hz. Digit al Flat Panel *Using a reduced bl anking interv al compatibl e with Apple® ’s Cinema HD ADC Display. This tim ing is not compatible with VESA’s 19 20 x 120 0 resolution when attached to an ADC connector. 2048 X 1536 100 Connection T ype Resolution Exampl e Produ c [...]

Product Registration 21 CHAPTER 4: Reference Product Registration To activate Custom er Care you must reg ister your prod uct wit h ATI at: ati.com/o nline/regi stration Customer Care For detailed instruct ions on how to use your ATI product , refer to the Online User’s Guide included on you r ATI installation CD-ROM. If you require further assi [...]

22 Customer Care ATI Customer Care will work to resolve your issue and help you to get your ATI product up and running. If your issue is not reso lved , our technicians will determine whether the diffic ult y you are exp eriencing is the result of the ATI product, whether your product con tains a defect, and whether your product is under warranty. [...]

23 CHAPTER 5: Compliance Information FCC Compliance Information This equipment h as been tested and found to comply w ith the limits for a Class B digital device, purs uant to Part 1 5 of the FCC Rules. These limits are des igned to provide reasonable pr otection again st harmful interference in a residentia l installation. This e quipment g enerat[...]

24 W aste Electrical and Electronic Equip ment (WEEE) Directive Compliance This product was manufactured by ATI Techno logies Inc.[...]

25 Glossary 2D Acronym for “two dimensional,” a term applied to computer graphics that are “flat.” Typical desktop applica tions such as wo rd processors, spreadsheet program s , or other program s that manipulate print or simple graphics (such as pictures or line art) are generally considered to be operating within a 2D environmen t, ev en[...]

26 This makes 3D objects appear more r ealistic as the detail of their surface texture is retained in a smooth, seamle ss fashion on the sections that move or fade away into the background. Anti-alia sing A method that smoo ths out the jagged edges of a curved object. A black curved line on a white background disp layed on a computer screen will ha[...]

27 memory can only encode to either “0” or “1.” So a graphical bit depth of 1 means that the display can only show two colors, the black and white of a monochrome display. Four-bi t colo r dept h is capable of displaying 16 colors because there are on ly 16 different combinat ions of 4 bits (“0000”, “0001”, “0010”... to “1111?[...]

28 Color Correction Use Color Correction to co rrect discrepancies between the real color value and the way a screen displays it. Color discrepancies can be caused by a variety of sources, including the lighting condi tio ns in the work area and gradual shifts in color over time on monitors or fl at panel displays. Color Curve A color curve represe[...]

29 Dot pitch Dot pitch specifies the sharpness of a m onitor’s display. It is measured in millimeters (mm) and is th e distance between the individual p hosphor sub- pixels in a CRT display or cell s of th e same color wit hin an LCD display. The smaller the number, the sharper the image. The most common dot pitches for monitors range from .24 mm[...]

30 Frames Per Second In terms of 3D graphics, refers to the rate at which the graphic processor can render new screens per second. Higher rates equals better, more naturalistic perfo rmance for such things as gam es set in a 3D environm ent. Sometimes abbreviated to “fp s.” Gamma Sometimes confused with bright ness, gam ma actually refers to th[...]

31 Keyframe Interpolation This feature is also known as “morphing.” In an animation, a start and end point are picked as the key frames. In a 3D rendering, the start point could have a character with a neutral expr ession, and the end point could have that same character sm iling. Additio nal frames are interpol ated (inserted) between the two [...]

32 flicker-free. The acronym refers to the Natio nal Television System s Committee, which devised this color video stand ard in 1953. Off screen Memory An area of memory used to preload im ages so that they can be quickly drawn to the screen. Offscreen memory refers to all of the remaining video memory not taken up by the front buffer, wh ich holds[...]

33 Pixel T apestry™ II Pixel Tapestry™ II uses four parallel, highly optim ized rendering pipelines, each capable of handling two textures simultaneously. It provides advanced texturin g, making 3D surfaces look even more detailed and realistic. Refresh Rate Also referred to as “vertical refresh rate .” This is the rate at which a monitor o[...]

34 Shadow Mask In CRT monitors, the shadow mask is a metal plate full of tiny holes th at is attached to the inside of the glass screen. It focuses the beams from the electron guns at the back of the CRT. The distance between these holes is called the dot pitch. SmartShader™ SmartShader ™ is ATI’s patented sh ader technology, providing custom[...]

35 Tr ansition Minimized Diff erential Signaling (TMDS) A technology designed to reduce el ectromagnetic inte rference (EMI) and improve the digital signal deli vered to flat panel displays. Its encoding algorithm converts th e original 8-bit graphic data into a more fault-tolerant 10-bit signal, which is then converted b ack to i ts original 8-bit[...]

36 VGA Connector A type of graphics connector, someti mes also called an analog connector. It is the m ost common type of video connector available, consisting 15-pin s set in three rows. The “VGA” is an acronym for “V ideo Graphics Array,” which is also the name for the v ideo resolution mode of 640x480 pixels, the lowest standard resoluti[...]

37 Index Numerics 2D 7, 25, 26, 28, 33, 34, 35 3D 3, 7, 10, 11, 16, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 3D Graphics 2 3D OpenGL Ov errides 10 A ADC 20, 25 ADC connector 20 Add an Application Profile 11 Advanced Display Options 6 Anisotropic Filtering 12, 25 Anisotropic filtering 25 Anti-aliasing 26 Anti-Flicker 14 Apple Cinema HD 20 Apple Di[...]

38 C Charisma Engine II 27 Color 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35 Color component 27, 28 Color correction 28 Color curve 28 Contrast 14 Control Panel 5 Controls Tab 13 Core Image 1 Create Apple System Profile r Report 6 CRT 1, 28, 29, 34 Customer Care 21, 22 D Detect Displays 6 Display Control Tab 9 Display Info 6 Display Scaling 7 Display Size 15 Di[...]

39 Frames per seco nd (fps) 30 Frozen Dot Crawl 13 Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) 12 G gamma 30 Gouraud Shading 29, 30 GPU 3 Graphic Card features 2 H Hard Sync 13 Hard Sync to TV 13 Help 22 Hue 14, 30, 33 HyperZ 3, 30 I IBM T221 display 20 Industry Ca na da Com p lianc e 23 K Keyframe interpolation 31 KTX Buffer Region Extension 31 L Lighting 25[...]

40 Product Registration 21 Profile dialog 6 Q Quartz Extreme 1, 3 QuickTime 3, 16 R Radeon 6 Ratio/Size Tab 14 Red Green Blue (RGB) 30, 33, 35 Refresh Rate 31, 32, 33 Related Documentation 2 Relative Rotation 7 Rendering 33 Resolution 29, 31, 32, 33, 36 rotation 7, 35 S Saturation 14, 30, 33 scaling 35 Select or Crea te a Preset 11 Set Up Tab 12 Sh[...]

41 Vertical Sync 12 VGA 33, 36 VGA connector 36 Video 29, 36 Video Card features 2 Video Output 12 Viewing 3D Graphics 2 W Warranty 22 Waste Electrical and Electron ic Equipment (WEEE) Compliance 24 Windows 32 X XGA 33 Z Z-buffer 36[...]

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