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RADEON 9800 SERIES
User’s Guide
P/N 137-40462-10
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Table of Contents Disclaimer...................................................................................................... i Product Notice......................................................................................... i Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features At A Glance .................................................................................. 2 ATI’s CATALYST™ Software Suite ..........................................
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View your PC’s display on a TV .............................................................. 28 Connecting to a TV or a VCR .................................................................. 29 Starting Windows® with TV Display Enabled.................................... 30 To Enable/Disable The TV Display.......................................................... 31 Using and Adjusting TV Out................................................................ 31 How TV Display Cannot Be Used ......
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1 Introduction The RADEON™ 9800 Series graphics accelerator delivers ground breaking 3D graphics performance. Powered by the RADEON 9800 Series Visual Processing Unit (VPU). ® ® Second generation to Support Microsoft DirectX 9.0. 256-bit DDR memory interface. Support for AGP 8X specification. Second generation 8-pixel pipeline architecture. ® Support Direct 3D and OpenGL applications. Cinematic experience for 3D gaming High resolution in 3D up to 2048x1536. Digital flat pan
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2 Features At A Glance The RADEON 9800 Series includes: CINEMATIC RENDERING: With its highly programmable shader engines, the RADEON 9800 Series of visual processors are designed to bring the most detailed worlds to life with cinema-quality lighting, textures, and effects. MAXIMUM 3D PERFORMACE: Eight parallel rendering pipelines, 256-bit memory interface, blazing fast clock speeds, and AGP 8X support come together to deliver incredible performance at the highest resolutions and detail
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3 ATI’s CATALYST™ Software Suite Multiple Displays and 3D Gaming Experience ATI’s CATALYST Software Suite provides multiple display functionality, and the advanced graphic features, such as SMARTSHADER 2.1, for the ultimate 3D gaming experience. For help installing the CATALYST Software Suite, refer to the Getting Started Guide. The CATALYST Software Suite installs the ATI display ® tabs. These tabs are accessed through the Windows Display Control Panel, through the Advanced... button loc
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4 HydraVision™ In addition to the multiple display functionality available with ATI’s CATALYST Software Suite, you can also use HydraVision for advanced multi-monitor management. For more information on HydraVision, please refer to the HydraVision User’s Guide PDF located on your ATI Installation CD.
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5 Multiple Displays Connecting Your Monitor(s) Your RADEON 9800 Series provides hardware support for one DVI-I monitor or two VGA monitors using the supplied DVI-I-to-VGA adapter. A TV can also be used to expand your desktop by using the S-Video out. Plug the monitor cable into your card (if you are running multiple monitors, connect their cables to the appropriate connectors), then turn on the PC and monitor(s). To connect a flat panel directly to your card, use the DVI-I connector. To c
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6 Display Configurations Your RADEON 9800 Series graphics accelerator card provides dual display functionality and TV Out. The following table lists the different ways you can connect displays to your card. Display Connector(s) Used Comments Configuration VGA connector OR DVI- One CRT CRT- cathode ray tube I connector with DVI-I- display analog display to-VGA adapter One DFP DVI-I connector DFP - digital flat panel display display The S-Video out can also support a composite One TV S-Vid
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7 CATALYST Software Suite The following section provides an explanation of each ATI tab added to the Display Properties after installing the Catalyst Software Suite. Features presented in the following pages may not be supported in all operating systems i and/or may appear differently. ATI Displays Tab The ATI Displays tab provides multiple monitor features. Here you can enable/disable display devices and swap the assignment of Primary and Secondary displays.
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8 Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays ® 1 Access the Windows Control Panel. Double-click Display. 2 Click the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. 3 Click the ATI Displays tab. 4 Click the enable/disable button for the display device you want to enable/disable. 5 Click OK or Apply to save the changes. Enabling Extended Desktop Mode ® 1 Access the Windows Control Panel. Double-click Display. 2 Click the Settings tab. 3 Click the monitor icon for the display onto which you want to
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9 To enable a Secondary display see Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays on page 8. To enable Extended Desktop Mode see Enabling Extended Desktop Mode on page 8. ® 1 Access the Windows Control Panel. Double-click Display. 2 Click the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. 3 Click the ATI Displays tab. The ATI Displays tab shows you the display(s) that are active. The Primary display has the button depressed. To change the display assignment, click the Primary display’s button or
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10 2 Click OK or Apply to save the changes. Ratiometric Expansion Your RADEON 9800 Series card offers ratiometric expansion (or digital panel scaling as it is commonly known). This expands a low resolution image to fill a higher resolution panel. However, ratiometric expansion is only available on the Primary display. Therefore, if a flat panel display (FPD) is set as Secondary, the Extended Desktop mode is disabled and the resolution is less than the FPD’s native resolution. This causes
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11 ATI Color Tab The ATI Color tab is used to adjust the color settings. You can change the red, green and blue display colors. Desktop brightness and Game Gamma (brightness) can also be changed. ATI Color Tab This increases or decreases the brightness of your Desktop desktop. The higher the gamma value, the higher Brightness the brightness of your display. This adjusts the selected color (red, green or blue Color Curve check button) by moving the color curve with your mouse. Game Gamma
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12 Clicking the Game Gamma button accesses the Game Gamma Properties. Game Gamma Properties These controls allow you to increase or decrease Red Green the color brightness of Direct 3D and OpenGL Blue sliders games played in fullscreen mode. Uncheck this to adjust the RGB sliders RGB Lock individually. Check this to adjust all three sliders at the same time. Defaults This allows you to reset the Game Gamma button settings to default values.
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13 ATI Options Tab The ATI Options tab provides detailed driver information and access to the card’s specifications. You can also enable or disable the ATI taskbar icon. ATI Options Tab Provides the Catalyst version number, 2D Version Information version number and the driver build information. Provides access to the Details tab which lists Details button the card’s hardware details and driver information. Reactivate all This allows you to reactivate any disabled warning messages graphics
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14 Unchecking this allows you to disable the ATI Enable ATI taskbar taskbar applications and removes the ATI icon application icon from your system tray. Unchecking this allows you to remove the ATI Show ATI icon on icon from your system tray without disabling taskbar the ATI icon applications. Quick resolution feature is accessible by left- Disable quick clicking the ATI icon in the system tray. resolution feature Checking this option disables this feature. Resolves display corruption o
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15 ATI Overlay Tab The ATI Overlay tab allows you to configure the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and gamma properties of your video overlay. Video Overlay Video overlay allows for the viewing of streaming video on your PC. However, there is only one video overlay, which is only available on the Primary display. The video overlay controls are automatically activated during playback of any video file type that supports overlay adjustments.
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16 ATI Overlay Tab Use this slider to adjust the brightness of the video Brightness image. Use this slider to adjust the contrast in the video Contrast image. Use this slider to adjust the vividness of the color. Saturation Sliding it all the way to the left removes all color and produces a black and white picture. Use this slider to adjust the pureness or tint of the Hue red, green and blue components of the color. Use this slider to adjust the overall intensity of the Gamma video image.
