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RADEON 9200 FSC Series
User’s Guide
P/N 137-40465-10
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Table of Contents Disclaimer ............................................................................................... i Product Notice......................................................................................... i MACROVISION..................................................................................... i Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features At A Glance .................................................................
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Using and Adjusting TV Out................................................................ 31 How TV Display Cannot Be Used ....................................................... 31 Using a Monitor vs. Using the TV Display.......................................... 32 Adjusting Monitor Display................................................................... 32 Viewing Text on a TV.......................................................................... 33 Reducing Edge Distortion ............
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1 Introduction The RADEON™ 9200 FSC Series graphic accelerators delivers ground breaking 3D graphics performance. Designed and built by ATI Technologies Inc. Powered by the RADEON™ 9200 Series Graphics Processing Units (GPU). Awesome 3D gaming performance. ® Support for OpenGL applications. ® Support for Direct 3D applications. High resolution in 3D up to 2048x1536. Best performance for today’s and tomorrow’s applications. Supports TV-out to connect your PC to your TV or VC
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2 Features At A Glance RADEON 9200 FSC Series The RADEON 9200 FSC Series provides high performance acceleration for today's demanding 3D graphic applications. Its main features are: VIDEO IMMERSION™ II which provides industry-leading DVD playback and digital TV decode capability. CHARISMA ENGINE™ II which is the main GPU, providing the necessary power to accelerate today’s 3D games and applications. SMARTSHADER™ technology which can realistically create the visual properties of any
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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 for those computers with support for more than one installed monitor, and the advanced graphic features, such as SMARTSHADER, for the ultimate 3D gaming experience. For help on 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
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4 HydraVision™ (Optional) In addition to the multiple display functionality available with ATI’s Catalyst Software Suite for those computers with support for more than one installed monitor, 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 Connecting Your Monitor The RADEON 9200 FSC Series provides hardware support for one VGA monitor. It also provides TV Output via a S-Video out or a Composite out connector. Plug the monitor cable into your card then turn on the PC and monitor(s). S-Video Composite Composite VGA CONNECTOR S-Video FROM MONITOR STANDARD VGA MONITOR CONNECTOR Or VGA CONNECTOR S-Video FROM MONITOR STANDARD VGA MONITOR CONNECTOR
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6 Display Configurations The following table lists the different ways you can connect displays to your card. Display Connector(s) Used Comments Configuration CRT- cathode ray tube analog One CRT display VGA connector display Cards with S-Video out also support Composite out via a S-Video-to-Composite One TV TV Output adapter*. Cards with Composite out DO NOT support connection to TVs with S-Video Input. CRT display + VGA connector + TV TV Output
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7 Catalyst™ Software Suite The following section provides an explanation of each ATI tab available after installing the Catalyst Software Suite. Features presented in the following pages may not be supported in all operating systems and/or may i appear differently. ATI Displays Tab The ATI Displays tab provides the multi monitor features for those computers with support for more than one installed monitor. Here you can enable/disable display devices and swap the assignment of Primary and
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8 Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays (optional) ® 1 Access the Windows Control Panel. Double- click Display. 2 Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. 3 Click on 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 (optional) ® 1 Access the Windows Control Panel. Double- click Display. 2 Click on the Settings tab. 3 Click the monitor icon for the
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9 To enable Extended Desktop Mode, refer to the section Enabling Extended Desktop Mode (optional). ® 1 Access the Windows Control Panel. Double- click Display. 2 Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. 3 Click on 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, you can click the Primary display’s button or you can click the button of the other display de
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10 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 the Brightness brightness of your display. This adjusts the selected color (red, green or blue check Color Curve button) by moving the color curve with your mouse. Game Gamma
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11 Clicking the Game Gamma button accesses the Game Gamma Properties. Game Gamma Properties These controls allow you to increase or decrease the Red Green ® ® color brightness of Direct 3D and OpenGL games Blue sliders played in fullscreen mode. Uncheck this to adjust the RGB sliders individually. RGB Lock Check this to adjust all three sliders at the same time. Defaults This allows you to reset the Game Gamma settings to button default values.
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12 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 Version Information number and the driver build information. Provides access to the Details tab which lists the Details button card’s hardware details and driver information. Reactivate all This allows you to reactivate any disabled warning messages graphics w
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13 Quick resolution feature is accessible by left- Disable quick clicking the ATI icon in the system tray. Checking resolution feature this option disables the feature. Reduce DVI Resolves display corruption or no image at high frequency on high- resolutions (for example 1280x1024 @75Hz) resolution using a digital DVI display. (This setting has no (optional) effect when using a DVI-to-VGA adapter.) Alternate DVI Use this option if you are experiencing display operational mode corruption
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14 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 full-motion 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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15 ATI Overlay Tab Use this slider to adjust the brightness of the video Brightness image. Contrast Use this slider to adjust the contrast in the video 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 red, Hue green and blue components of the color. Use this slider to adjust the overall intensity of the video Gamma image. C
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16 The source video is scaled so that your display is Full Screen showing full screen. Note: if the source video contains Video horizontal black bars, as do some DVD movies, the full screen video will also contain black bars. Select this option if the aspect ratio of the display device 4:3 (Standard showing full screen video has the standard 4:3 aspect TV) ratio (standard TVs and monitors). Select this option if the aspect ratio of the display device 16:9 is showing full screen video has
