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- Page 1 Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition User’s Guide P/N 137-40864-10...
- Page 2 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.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction ....... 1 System Requirements External Connections Related Documentation Multimedia Features Viewing 3D Graphics... - Page 4 Compliance Information ....23 FCC Compliance Information Industry Canada Compliance Statement Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance Glossary ....... . . 25 Index .
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Page 5: Introduction
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: •... -
Page 6: 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. -
Page 7: Tv Out Support
TV Out Support 3 In addition, the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition offers the following graphics technologies: is an antialiasing solution that raises the bar for image SmoothVision™ 2.1 quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to post-process graphics before they are displayed. SmartShader™... - Page 8 4 TV Out Support...
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Page 9: Ati Displays Control Panel
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 Open the Apple® System Preferences. Click the ATI Displays icon. -
Page 10: Ati Displays Control Panel
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. -
Page 11: Versavision™ Tab
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. - Page 12 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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Page 13: Display Control Tab
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. -
Page 14: Advanced Dfp Tab
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. -
Page 15: Add An Application Profile
Add an Application Profile To add an application to the Application Profile list: Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays. Click Add. Browse to the desired application. Click Choose. Select or Create a Preset ATI Displays includes a number of predefined OpenGL® presets that can be applied to any application. -
Page 16: Enabling Mac2Tv
12 Enabling Mac2TV™ 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. -
Page 17: Optimizing Mac2Tv
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. -
Page 18: Ratio/Size Tab
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. - Page 19 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.
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Page 20: Ati Displays Preferences
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. -
Page 21: Using Digital Flat Panel (Dvi)
Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) Use Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition’s DVI support feature to output your computer’s display to your DVI digital flat panel, providing you with: • Crisper, clearer images. • A true flat screen. • Virtually no eye strain from prolonged viewing. Using Radeon®... - Page 22 18 Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) DVI-I Connector Single link DVI-I Monitor port DVI-I Connector Turn on your DVI flat panel and your Mac. Note: The DVI connector is hot swappable. You no longer need to shut down your computer before attaching a digital flat panel. A dual-link DVI transmits up to twice the amount of pixel information of single link DVI connection.
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Page 23: Specifications
CHAPTER 3: Specifications Video Mode Table The video mode table below lists the color depth capabilities for the supported resolutions on your Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition. Please consult your monitor’s specifications to determine which resolutions are available with your display. Supported Modes Display Resolution 640 x 480... -
Page 24: Digital Flat Panel
Supported Modes Display Resolution 2048 X 1536 The minimum refresh rate for the above modes is 56Hz. Digital Flat Panel Connection Type Single-Link (one DVI) Single-Link (one DVI or ADC) Dual-Link (one DVI) Single-Link (one DVI low refresh rate) *Using a reduced blanking interval compatible with Apple®’s Cinema HD ADC Display. -
Page 25: Reference
CHAPTER 4: Reference Product Registration To activate Customer Care you must register your product with ATI at: ati.com/online/registration Customer Care For detailed instructions on how to use your ATI product, refer to the Online User’s Guide included on your ATI installation CD-ROM. If you require further assistance with your product, the following Customer Care options are available: Service... - Page 26 Service Availability Telephone 7:00AM to Latin 3:30 PM EST America / South America 7:00AM to 7:00PM EST Mail ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC. Attention: Customer Care 1 Commerce Valley Drive East Markham, Ontario Canada L3T 7X6 ATI Customer Care will work to resolve your issue and help you to get your ATI product up and running.
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Page 27: Compliance Information
CHAPTER 5: Compliance Information FCC Compliance Information This Radeon® product complies with FCC Rules part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions • This device may not cause harmful interference, and • This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. -
Page 28: Waste Electrical And Electronic Equipment Weee) Directive Compliance
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance This product was manufactured by ATI Technologies Inc. -
Page 29: Glossary
Glossary Acronym for “two dimensional,” a term applied to computer graphics that are “flat.” Typical desktop applications such as word processors, spreadsheet programs, or other programs that manipulate print or simple graphics (such as pictures or line art) are generally considered to be operating within a 2D environment, even when they include simple three dimensional elements, such as buttons. -
Page 30: Aspect Ratio
This makes 3D objects appear more realistic as the detail of their surface texture is retained in a smooth, seamless fashion on the sections that move or fade away into the background. Anti-aliasing A method that smooths out the jagged edges of a curved object. A black curved line on a white background displayed on a computer screen will have some jaggedness along its edges due to the inherent limitations of using discrete pixels to display the image. -
Page 31: Color Component
memory can only encode to either “0” or “1.” So a graphical bit depth of 1 means that the display can only show two colors, the black and white of a monochrome display. Four-bit color depth is capable of displaying 16 colors because there are only 16 different combinations of 4 bits (“0000”, “0001”, “0010”... -
Page 32: Color Correction
Color Correction Use Color Correction to correct discrepancies between the real color value and the way a screen displays it. Color discrepancies can be caused by a variety of sources, including the lighting conditions in the work area and gradual shifts in color over time on monitors or flat panel displays. Color Curve A color curve represents all possible intensity values (from 0 to 255) for a color component (Red, Green or Blue). -
Page 33: Dot Pitch
Dot pitch Dot pitch specifies the sharpness of a monitor’s display. It is measured in millimeters (mm) and is the distance between the individual phosphor sub- pixels in a CRT display or cells of the same color within an LCD display. The smaller the number, the sharper the image. -
Page 34: Frames Per Second
Frames Per Second In terms of 3D graphics, refers to the rate at which the graphic processor can render new screens per second. Higher rates equals better, more naturalistic performance for such things as games set in a 3D environment. Sometimes abbreviated to “fps.”... - Page 35 Keyframe Interpolation This feature is also known as “morphing.” In an animation, a start and end point are picked as the key frames. In a 3D rendering, the start point could have a character with a neutral expression, and the end point could have that same character smiling.
- Page 36 flicker-free. The acronym refers to the National Television Systems Committee, which devised this color video standard in 1953. Offscreen Memory An area of memory used to preload images so that they can be quickly drawn to the screen. Offscreen memory refers to all of the remaining video memory not taken up by the front buffer, which holds the contents of the display screen currently visible.
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Page 37: Refresh Rate
Pixel Tapestry™ II Pixel Tapestry™ II uses four parallel, highly optimized rendering pipelines, each capable of handling two textures simultaneously. It provides advanced texturing, making 3D surfaces look even more detailed and realistic. Refresh Rate Also referred to as “vertical refresh rate.” This is the rate at which a monitor or television can redraw the screen from top to bottom. -
Page 38: Shadow Mask
Shadow Mask In CRT monitors, the shadow mask is a metal plate full of tiny holes that is attached to the inside of the glass screen. It focuses the beams from the electron guns at the back of the CRT. The distance between these holes is called the dot pitch. -
Page 39: Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (Tmds)
Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) A technology designed to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) and improve the digital signal delivered to flat panel displays. Its encoding algorithm converts the original 8-bit graphic data into a more fault-tolerant 10-bit signal, which is then converted back to its original 8-bit form at the display device. - Page 40 VGA Connector A type of graphics connector, sometimes also called an analog connector. It is the most common type of video connector available, consisting 15-pins set in three rows. The “VGA” is an acronym for “Video Graphics Array,” which is also the name for the video resolution mode of 640x480 pixels, the lowest standard resolution supported by virtually all video cards.
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Page 41: Index
Index Numerics 7, 25, 26, 28, 33, 34, 35 3, 7, 10, 11, 16, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 3D Graphics 3D OpenGL Overrides 20, 25 ADC connector Add an Application Profile Advanced Display Options Anisotropic Filtering Anisotropic filtering Anti-aliasing... - Page 42 Charisma Engine II 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35 Color 27, 28 Color component Color correction Color curve Contrast Control Panel Controls Tab Core Image Create Apple System Profiler Report 1, 28, 29, 34 21, 22 Customer Care Detect Displays Display Control Tab Display Info...
- Page 43 Frames per second (fps) Frozen Dot Crawl Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) gamma 29, 30 Gouraud Shading Graphic Card features Hard Sync Hard Sync to TV Help 14, 30, 33 3, 30 HyperZ IBM T221 display Industry Canada Compliance Keyframe interpolation KTX Buffer Region Extension 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35 Lighting Linux...
- Page 44 Product Registration Profile dialog 1, 3 Quartz Extreme 3, 16 QuickTime Radeon Ratio/Size Tab Red Green Blue (RGB) 31, 32, 33 Refresh Rate Related Documentation Relative Rotation Rendering 29, 31, 32, 33, 36 Resolution 7, 35 rotation 14, 30, 33 Saturation scaling Select or Create a Preset...
- Page 45 Vertical Sync 33, 36 VGA connector 29, 36 Video Video Card features Video Output Viewing 3D Graphics Warranty Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Compliance Windows Z-buffer...