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RADEON 7200
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RADEON
User’s Guide
Version 4.0
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Table of Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features At A Glance .................................................................................. 2 RADEON 7000 ...................................................................................... 2 RADEON 7200 ...................................................................................... 2 ATI’s CATALYST™ Software Suite ........................................................ 3 3D
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How To Enable/Disable The TV Display ............................................ 29 Using and Adjusting TV Out................................................................ 30 Using a Monitor vs. Using the TV Display.......................................... 30 Adjusting Monitor Display................................................................... 30 Viewing Text on a TV.......................................................................... 31 Reducing Edge Distortion ................
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1 Introduction The RADEON 7000 series of graphic accelerators delivers ground breaking 3D graphics performance. Designed and built by ATI Technologies Inc. Powered by the RADEON Visual Processing Unit (VPU). 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. Optional S-Video Out to connect your PC to your TV or VCR.
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2 Features At A Glance RADEON 7000 The RADEON 7000 provides high performance acceleration for today's demanding 3D graphic applications. Its main features are: VIDEO IMMERSION™ wh ich provides industry- leading DVD playback and digital TV decode capability Hyper Z™ technology, which reduces memory bandwidth consumption, resulting in improved 3D performance PIXEL TAPESTRY™ which can apply 3 textures at once to a complex 3D gaming scene 64MB double data rate (DDR) memory, PCI and AG
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3 ATI’s CATALYST™ Software Suite 3D Gaming Experience ATI’s CATALYST Software Suite activates the advanced graphic features, such as PIXEL TAPESTRY, for advanced 3D gaming capability. 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 the ® Windows Display Control Panel, through the Advanced... button located on the Settings tab. For a detailed explanation of ea
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4 Display Connectors The RADEON 7200 provides an IBM standard analog VGA connector. The RADEON 7000 64MB PCI, 32MB PCI and 32MB AGP versions also provide an IBM standard analog VGA connector. The RADEON 7000 64MB AGP version provides an IBM standard analog VGA connector and an S-Video Out connector. RADEON 7200 RADEON 7000 RADEON 7000 64MB AGP IBM STANDARD VGA MONITOR CONNECTOR IBM STANDARD VGA MONITOR CONNECTOR S-VID OUT S-VIDEO OUT For information on how to use the S-Video Out connector,
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5 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 Display tab provides information on the current screen resolution and refresh rate your monitor is set to. Clicking the monitor button accesses additional monitor information, properties and controls.
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6 Monitor Attributes Tab The Attributes tab provides display data channel (DDC) information. DDC is the technology whereby the monitor communicates to the graphics card all the resolutions and refresh rates it supports. The RADEON family of graphics cards are all DDC compliant. By unchecking Use DDC information, you can manually select the maximum resolution and refresh rate of your monitor. However, this is only recommended for older or non DDC compliant monitors.
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7 Monitor Adjustments Tab The Adjustments tab provides the controls to adjust the monitor’s screen position and screen size. Use the arrow buttons to shift your display left, right, up or down. Use the plus or minus buttons to increase or decrease the vertical and horizontal size of your display.
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8 Monitor Advanced Tab The Advanced tab provides horizontal and vertical synchronization controls. Clicking the plus buttons adjusts the monitor’s horizontal and vertical synchronization. Checkmarking the Composite button combines the horizontal and vertical signals supplied by the RADEON graphics card to your monitor. Composite should be checked only if you are using a composite sync monitor. Consult your monitor’s user i guide for information on your monitor type.
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9 Multiple Monitors With an additional ATI graphics card installed in your system, the ATI Displays tab now provides the multi monitor features. Here you can enable/disable secondary display devices and swap the assignment of Primary and Secondary displays. Installing a Second ATI Graphics Card 1 Turn off your PC and install the second graphics card into an available PCI or AGP slot. For more help and information, refer to the Getting Started Guide. 2 Connect your additional display into
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10 Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays ® 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 1 With an additional graphics card installed, access ® the Windows Control Panel. Double-click Display. 2 Click on the Settings tab. 3 Click t
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11 To enable a Secondary display, refer to the section Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays. To enable Extended Desktop Mode, refer to the section Enabling Extended Desktop Mode. ® 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 t
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12 2 Click OK or Apply to save the changes. Ratiometric Expansion Your RADEON 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 the FPD to
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13 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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14 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. (NOTE: Game Gamma is NOT supported in Windows NT4.0) 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 valu
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15 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 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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16 Unchecking this allows you to remove the ATI icon Show ATI icon on from your system tray without disabling the ATI taskbar icon applications. 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. Clicking the Details button provides access to the Details tab. ATI Overlay Tab The ATI Overlay tab allows you to configure the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and gamma prope
