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ATI Technologies RADEON 7000 User Manual

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RADEON
RADEON
User's Guide
Version 3.0
P/N 137-40299-30 Rev. B
Copyright © 2002, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.
ATI and all 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 the diagrams.
Reproduction of this manual, or parts thereof, in any form, without the express written
permission of ATI Technologies Inc. is strictly prohibited.
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  • Page 1 Copyright © 2002, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and all 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.
  • Page 2 ATI hardware, software, or other products and documentation provided herein. ATI Technologies Inc. reserves the right to make changes without further notice to a product or system described herein to improve reliability, function or design. With...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Introduction........1 Features At A Glance ... 2 Radeon™...
  • Page 4 How To Enable/Disable The TV Display ... 30 Using and Adjusting TV Out... 31 Using a Monitor vs. Using the TV Display... 31 Adjusting Monitor Display... 31 Viewing Text on a TV... 32 Reducing Edge Distortion ... 32 Changing Display Configurations ... 33 Using Games and Applications ...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    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 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). • Awesome 3D gaming performance. • Support for OpenGL •...

  • Page 6: Features At A Glance

    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™ which provides industry- leading DVD playback and digital TV decode capability • Hyper Z™ technology, which reduces memory bandwidth consumption, resulting in improved 3D performance •...

  • Page 7: Ati's Catalyst Software Suite

    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.
  • Page 8 information on HydraVision™, please refer to the HydraVision™ User’s Guide PDF located on your ATI Installation CD.

  • Page 9: Display Connectors

    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 IBM STANDARD VGA MONITOR CONNECTOR For information on how to use the S-Video Out connector, refer to...

  • Page 10: Catalyst™ Software Suite

    Catalyst™ Software Suite The following section provides an explanation of each ATI tab available after installing the Catalyst™ Software Suite. 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.

  • Page 11: Monitor Attributes Tab

    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.

  • Page 12: Monitor Adjustments Tab

    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.

  • Page 13: Monitor Advanced Tab

    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.

  • Page 14: Multiple Monitors

    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 Turn off your PC and install the second graphics card into an available PCI or AGP slot.

  • Page 15: Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays

    Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays Access the Windows click Display. Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. Click on the ATI Displays tab. Click the enable/disable button display device you want to enable/disable. Click OK or Apply to save the changes. Enabling Extended Desktop Mode With an additional graphics card installed, access the Windows...

  • Page 16: Virtually Repositioning Your Displays

    To enable a Secondary display, refer to the section Enabling/Disabling Secondary To enable Extended Desktop Mode, refer to the section Enabling Extended Desktop Access the Windows click Display. Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. Click on the ATI Displays tab. The ATI Displays tab shows you the display(s) that are active.

  • Page 17: Ratiometric Expansion

    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.

  • Page 18: Ati Color Tab

    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. This increases or decreases the brightness of your Desktop desktop.
  • Page 19 Clicking the Game Gamma button accesses the 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.

  • Page 20: Ati Options Tab

    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. Version Information Details button Reactivate all warning messages Enable ATI taskbar icon application ATI Options Tab Provides the Catalyst version number, 2D version number and the driver build information.

  • Page 21: Ati Overlay Tab

    Show ATI icon on taskbar Disable quick resolution 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 properties of your video overlay. Video Overlay Video overlay allows for the viewing of full-motion video on your PC.
  • Page 22 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. Use this slider to adjust the brightness of the video Brightness image. Contrast Use this slider to adjust the contrast in the video image.

  • Page 23: Direct 3D ® Control Panel

    Direct 3D Using this tab, gamers can tweak the settings of their Direct 3D Main and Custom Settings In the Main Settings you can maximize overall performance by moving the slider to the left, or you can enhance overall image quality by moving the slider to the right.
  • Page 24 This allows you to emphasize what kind of application experience you’d like to have. Moving the slider to the left will maximize application performance, while moving Main Settings the slider to the right will provide excellent 3D image slider quality. Moving this slider from one position to the next changes the individual Custom Settings sliders found below.
  • Page 25 Selecting this decides whether your application should use high quality or high performance textures. Moving Texture the slider to the right delivers the highest quality Preference experience. Moving the slider to the left emphasizes a slider high performance solution while still providing good visuals.

  • Page 26: Direct 3D ® Compatibility Settings

    ® Direct 3D Compatibility Settings This will enable W-Buffer support for 3D games. It is recommended to disable this for games that do not Support W- support this feature. Certain applications require the buffer increased precision of W-Buffering and will exhibit artifacts unless the W-Buffer is enabled.
  • Page 27 When applications use both dithering and alpha blending, visual artifacts can occur. This option allows Alpha you to select how the application should handle both dithering features at the same time. In most cases Error method Diffusion will handle this situation quite well, but there are a few cases where selecting Ordered may be necessary.

  • Page 28: Opengl ® Control Panel

    OpenGL Using this tab, gamers can tweak the settings of their OpenGL Main and Custom Settings In the Main Settings you can maximize overall performance by moving the slider to the left, or you can enhance overall image quality by moving the slider to the right.
  • Page 29 This allows you to emphasize what kind of application experience you’d like to have. Moving the slider to the left will maximize application performance, while moving Main Settings the slider to the right will provide excellent 3D image slider quality. Moving this slider from one position to the next changes the individual Custom Settings sliders found below.
  • Page 30 Selecting this decides whether your application should use high quality or high performance textures. Moving Texture the slider to the right delivers the highest quality Preference experience. Moving the slider to the left emphasizes a slider high performance solution while still providing good visuals.

  • Page 31: Opengl ® Compatibility Settings

    ® OpenGL Compatibility Settings Force Z-buffer This allows you to explicitly set the Z-Buffer depth. Most depth applications will work best when Disabled is selected When applications use both dithering and alpha blending, visual artifacts can occur. This option allows Alpha you to select how the application should handle both dithering...

  • Page 32: Using Tv Out

    Using TV Out View your PC’s display on a TV The RADEON™ 7000 64MB AGP version has TV Out capability. You can connect this card to a TV and monitor at the same time. Or you can connect it to your VCR and record your monitor’s display. TV display is ideal for playing games, giving presentations, watching movies, and browsing the Internet.
  • Page 33 TVs (and VCRs) have a Composite video input, in which case you can use an S-Video-to-Composite adapter. If your TV has cable input only, you can connect your card to your TV through your VCR or an RF modulator (available in most electronics stores).

  • Page 34: Starting Windows ® With Tv Display Enabled

    Starting Windows The TV screen may become scrambled during the initial Windows temporary effect and your screen will be restored within a few seconds. During start up, your RADEON™ 7000 64MB AGP will go through a sequence of mode settings, during which your TV display will remain blank.

  • Page 35: Using And Adjusting Tv Out

    Click on the ATI Displays tab. Click on the TV button. Click the enable/disable button. Click OK or Apply to save the changes. Using and Adjusting TV Out For information about how to use TV display, right click the ATI taskbar icon, point to Help, then point to ATI Television Display.

  • Page 36: Viewing Text On A Tv

    Viewing Text on a TV A TV is designed primarily to show moving, rather than static, images. The large dot pitch of a TV (which is fine for moving video) will yield poor quality static images such as text. The small text sizes commonly used for PC desktops can appear blurred or unclear on a TV.

  • Page 37: Changing Display Configurations

    Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. Click on the ATI Displays tab. Click on the TV button. Click the Adjustments tab. In the Screen Size section, click on the plus (+) button beside the horizontal arrowheads increase the horizontal size of the TV display.

  • Page 38: Using Games And Applications

    and a higher mode is selected, the display on your TV will disappear. Using Games and Applications Some older games and applications may program your RADEON™ card directly, to run under a specific display mode. This may cause your TV display to turn off automatically or become scrambled (the PC monitor will not be affected).

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