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Radeon® 9600 PRO
PC & Mac Edition
User’s Guide
P/N 137-40864-10
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ii Copyright © 2005, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI, the ATI logo, and ATI product and product-feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in diagrams. Reproduction of this manual, or parts thereof, in any form, wi
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iii Table of Contents 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 ATI Displays Control Panel 6 Advanced Display Options 6 VersaVision™ Tab 7 Display Scaling 7 Display Control Tab 9 Advanced DFP Tab 10 3D OpenGL® Overr
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iv Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 FCC Compliance Information 23 Industry Canada Compliance Statement 23 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance 24 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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1 CHAPTER 1: Introduction The Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition is a graphics accelerator card that delivers maximum programmability and entertainment value to both gamers and developers. It includes flexible dual-display support for multiple combinations of Digital Flat Panel and CRT monitors. Your new graphics card provides: • Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations using digital and analog displays. • OpenGL® acceleration providing superior 3D rendering performance, a
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2 Related Documentation 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 Documentation The README file summarizes the latest product revisions. Click the README icon on the installation disk to open this file. Detailed help and feature descriptions are available directly in ATI Displays. Multimedia Features Your Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition turns your Mac computer into
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TV Out Support 3 In addition, the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition offers the following graphics technologies: SmoothVision™ 2.1 is an antialiasing solution that raises the bar for image quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to post-process graphics before they are displayed. SmartShader™ 2.0 contains advanced vertex and pixel-shading capabilities. A shader is a small program that runs on the GPU and describes how an image should be rendered. Vertex shaders manipulate the indi
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4 TV Out Support
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Introduction 5 CHAPTER 2: ATI 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 ATI Displays control panel 1 Open the Apple® System Preferences. 2 Click the ATI Displays icon. or 1 Click the Hard Disk icon. 2 Open Applications folder. 3 Open Utilities folder. 4 Open ATI Utilities folder. 5 Open ATI Displays. For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these f
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6 ATI Displays Control Panel ATI Displays Control Panel Display Info dialog shows the current display settings for the display. Detect Displays button detects all connected displays. This feature is useful when a second VGA monitor is connected to your graphics adapter. Detect Displays removes the need to restart your computer. Note: Your display will momentarily go blank when all devices are being detected. The Profile dialog presents information on the specific Radeon® graphics card and v
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Advanced Display Options 7 To access the Advanced features open the ATI Displays control panel and click the ADVANCED button. VersaVision™ Tab Use the VersaVision™ tab to rotate your display while maintaining the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. ATI’s hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling technology provides rotation left or right by 90 degrees or turn it upside down to a full 180 degree rotation. Use Relative Rotation to rotate the contents of your display
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8 Advanced Display Options If the computer desktop, toolbar or dock exceeds the physical size of your display select Standard Underscan (87%) in the Desktop Size drop down menu. You can also create a unique desktop size by selecting Custom and adjusting the slider to the desired setting.
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Advanced Display Options 9 Display Control Tab Force Single Display Operation, when 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 feature is enabled. The default setting is Disabled. Enable GTF Modes for CRT provides a list of all available modes for your monitor based on the Generalized Timing Formula standard. This feature is enabled by default. Enable ATI “V
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10 Advanced DFP Tab Advanced DFP Tab The features on this tab are intended to support Digital Flat Panels (DFP) only. Enable ATI Hardware Scaler on non-Apple panels can be used with flat panels with fixed resolutions. Use this feature to change video modes using the ATI Scaler. Enable frequency reduction on high resolution displays may correct problems concerning jitter or dot crawl. Enable Alternate DVI TMDS Receiver Mode corrects problems such as noise or blank screens on some flat panel
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3D OpenGL® Overrides 11 Add an Application Profile To add an application to the Application Profile list: 1 Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays. 2 Click Add. 3 Browse to the desired application. 4 Click Choose. Select or Create a Preset ATI Displays includes a number of predefined OpenGL® presets that can be applied to any application. You can also create your own unique preset. To select a Preset: 1 Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays. 2 Select the desired preset from the Preset drop-down menu. T
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12 Enabling Mac2TV™ 4 Configure the preset by making adjustments to the Performance, FSAA, Anisotropic Filtering, and Vertical Sync sliders. Note: The preset selections and adjustments 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 only supported using the single link DVI output via an Apple® DVI-to-Video adapter. Set Up Tab Video Output shows whether a TV or VCR has been detected. Select A
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Optimizing Mac2TV™ 13 Extra Set up: Hard Sync to TV, when enabled, removes a black line that may appear at the bottom of the screen of high end TV equipment. This process slightly alters the color across the screen. This color alteration may or may not be visible. Unless you notice a black line on your TV screen, it is recommended to leave Hard Sync to TV disabled. Optimizing Mac2TV™ You can optimize your TV display using the video out preferences. Viewing images on your TV can be improved
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14 Ratio/Size Tab The Anti-Flicker slider reduces the amount of display flicker. Display flicker is both a distraction and tiring to your eyes, and is most pronounced 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 how far the whitest whites are from the blackest blacks. If the contrast is too high, the image may look stark, like pure white squares on a jet-black bac
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Ratio/Size Tab 15 Use Aspect Ratio to select between a fully adjustable display or one locked to a specific aspect ratio. 4:3 Standard, 16.9 Widescreen, and Current screen resolution are all fixed modes. Overscan increases the vertical and horizontal size to fill your TV. Use Movie Mode for the best results viewing TV or DVDs. Use Display Position to move the TV/VCR image on your display. Use the arrow buttons to locate the image to the desired position. Use Display Size to increase or decrea
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16 ATI Displays Preferences ATI Displays Preferences From the ATI Displays drop down menu you can set the Preferences for the ATI Displays control panel. Here you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits. ATI Displays Help ATI Displays Help is an additional source of information when you are using the ATI Displays control panel. Simply click on the icon on the ATI Displays control panel. ® Using DVD and QuickTime Playback Use the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition’s
