Diamond Multimedia Radeon 9600 PRO User's Manual
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1. Setup Controls Advanced LCN i D 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 decrease the size of the TV VCR image on your display The Default button undoes all changes and sets everything to the factory default settings The Revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original state or last known good setting ATI Technologies 16 ATI Displays Preferences ATI Displays Preferences r zf Preferences Control Panel Startup v Show warning box when ATI product is not found Displays Window Startup Always center on the monitor Always present on the main monitor Use the last known window position Control Panel Exit Always confirm when quitting Auto Quit ATI Displays when all Displays windows are closed when any Displays window is c Cael XD 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 exits2. 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 amp Mac Edition s QuickTime playback acceleration to stretch movies to full screen size without compromising frame rate or image quality Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition s hardware scaler maintains the original quality of your DVD or QuickTime movie when scaling to a larger size even full screen When playing movies in thousands or millions of colors the ATI card utilizes the 3D engine s capabilities to scale and accelerate playback When scaling video the Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition uses special hardware techniques bilinear filtering to enhance the video quality instead of just repeating pixels ATI Technologies Using Digital Flat Panel DVI 17 Using Digital Flat Panel DVI Use Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition s DVI support feature to output your computer s display to your DVI digital flat panel providing you with Crisper clearer images e A true flat screen Virtually no eye strain from prolonged viewing Using Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition DVI Connector Use Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition to connect to a digital flat panel display To output your computer s display to a DVI digital flat panel
3. 2D image that appears on a display is derived from its 3D descriptions What appears on the display may look three dimensional but it is really just a 2D grid of pixels designed to appear that way Resolution The resolution of any display is the number of pixels that can be depicted on screen as specified by the number of horizontal rows against the number of vertical columns The default VGA resolution of many video cards is capable of displaying 640 rows of pixels by 480 columns The typical resolution of current displays is set to higher values such as 1024x768 XGA 1280x1024 SXGA or 1600x1200 UXGA Saturation Refers to the intensity of a specific hue color A highly saturated hue is vivid and intense whereas a less saturated hue appears more grey A completely unsaturated color is grey In terms of the RGB color model a fully saturated color exists when you have 100 brightness in one of the three channels say red and 0 in the two others green and blue Conversely a fully desaturated color is one where all of the color values are the same Saturation can therefore be thought of as the relative difference between the values of the channels 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 SmartShader S
4. 7 Looking at the back of your Mac locate your ATI Graphics Accelerator 2 Attach one end of your DVI cable to the DVI connector on your Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition and the other end to the DVI connector on your DVI flat panel 1 Dual Link DVI Monitor Port ATI Technologies 18 Using Digital Flat Panel DVI 2 DVI I Connector Single link DVI I Monitor port 6 DVI I Connector 3 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 Use the dual link DVI connector for extremely high resolution displays such as Apple 30 inch Cinema HD Displays 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 amp Mac Edition Please consult your monitor s specifications to determine which resolutions are available with your display Supported Modes Display Resolution Maximum Refresh 640 x 480 200 720 x 480 200 800 x 600 200 1024 x 768 200 1152 x 864 200 1152 x 870 75 1280 X 960 200 1280 x 1024 200 1600 x 900 200 1600 X 1024 150 1600 X 1200 150 1920 X 1080 150 1920 X 1200 120 1920 X 1440 120 2048 X 1152 120 2048 X 1280 120 Suppo
5. Incorporating a programmable Vertex Shader pipeline Charisma Engine II is a transform and lighting engine designed to make 3D characters and transitions even more life like Color Component Three color components Red Green and Blue combine in various intensities to determine the color of each pixel on the screen The values of each color component are graphically represented by a corresponding color curve 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 For each color curve the horizontal axis represents the input value the color value a program wants to display while the vertical axis represents the output value the color value that the display driver will write to the screen A value of 0 in the lower left corner represents the complete absence of that particular color while a value of 255 in the upper right corner represents the full strength for that color CRT Acronym for cathode ray tube which is the main component of computer monitors and TVs Color CRTs use three separate electron beams fired through a shadow ma
6. OpenGL Overrides 11 ean Display 3D gt l ATi PC amp mac eorrion Info Application Profile Add Remove Browse Advanced 3 Select or add an application to apply override settings to r Preset 1J Unique Profile 3D Settings below affect only the selected application __ Performance Q Speed Quality __ FSAA Super go Off 2x 4x __ Anisotropic Filtering Se Off 2x 4x 8x 16x __ Vertical Sync off J On These options override the application s own settings 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 To create a new preset 1 Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays 2 Click Preset drop down menu and select New Preset 3 Enter a name for the preset 12 Enabling Mac2TV ATI Technologies 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 det
7. its normal orientation Use the Revert button to undo all changes and reset the desktop to the original state or last known good setting Display Scaling Use this option to control the display output size without affecting the desktop resolution of your display ATI Technologies 8 Advanced Display Options e00 Display Advanced Rapeon amp mac eorriom Info lt VERSAVISION Display Control Advanced DFP __ v Desktop Size Advanced 7 Maximum 100 B SD This option allows control over the display output size without affecting the desktop resolution Itis useful when using a display such as a DVI or VGA 3D television to avoid hiding elements such as the title bar and dock along the screen edges 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 ATI Technologies Advanced Display Options 9 Display Control Tab O Display Advanced Os Rapeon Mac eorrion Info VERSAVISION Display Scaling Display Control Advanced DFP Advanced settings Advanced _ Force Single Display Operation Causes all displays of a multi headed card to appear in a single list Mw Enable GTF Modes for CRT Create extra display mod
8. skin Texel Short for texture element the 3D equivalent of a pixel describing the base unit of the surface of a 3D object such as a sphere for a 2D object such as a circle the base unit is a pixel 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 The signal is also DC balanced allowing for the option of transmitting the signal over fibre optic cable DVI connectors can incorporate up to two TMDS links with each link comprised of the number of signals required for standard RGB output Higher resolutions and refresh rates than standard are possible if multiple TMDS links are available by using multiple DVI connectors Trilinear Filtering A sampling method used to produce realistic looking 3D objects Trilinear filtering averages one of the bilinear filter mipmap levels along with the standard mipmap samples VersaVision An ATI technology enabling accelerated display rotation and scaling Any desktop can now be rotated 90 degrees left or right or even 180 degrees while maintaining the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies such as SmoothVision VersaVision works with single or mul
9. 28 33 34 35 3D 3 7 10 11 16 25 26 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 3D Graphics 2 3D OpenGL Overrides 10 A ADC 20 25 ADC connector 20 Add an Application Profile 11 Advanced Display Options 6 Anisotropic Filtering 12 25 Anisotropic filtering 25 Anti aliasing 26 Anti Flicker 14 Apple Cinema HD 20 Apple Display Connector 25 Apple Displays Properties 9 Apple DVI to Video adapter 12 Apple System Preferences 5 Apple System Profiler Report 6 Aspect Ratio 14 15 26 ATI Displays 5 10 11 ATI Displays Control Panel 6 ATI Displays Help 16 ATI Displays Preferences 16 ATI Guide accessing 16 description 16 B Back Buffer 26 Bilinear Filtering 26 bilinear filtering 16 Bit depth 26 27 Bitmap 27 Black amp White 12 Brightness 14 brightness 27 30 33 Buffer 26 27 29 31 32 36 buffer 30 c Charisma Engine II 27 Color 26 27 28 29 30 32 33 35 Color component 27 28 Color correction 28 Color curve 28 Contrast 14 Control Panel 5 Controls Tab 13 Core Image 1 Create Apple System Profiler Report 6 CRT 1 28 29 34 Customer Care 21 22 D Detect Displays 6 Display Control Tab 9 Display Info 6 Display Scaling 7 Display Size 15 Dithering 28 dock 8 Dot pitch 29 32 34 DVD 1 15 16 DVI 1 29 35 DVI A 29 DVI D 29 DVI I 29 E Electromagnetic Interference EMI 35 Enable ATI Valid and Safe 9 Enable GTF Modes for CRT 9 Enable Hot Plug Detection 9 Enabling Mac2TV 12 Exte
10. DVI D digital and DVI I integrated capable of either analog or digital It supports high bandwidth video signals over 160 Hz so it is most often used for high resolution displays Flat Shading A lighting technique that shades each polygon of a 3D object based on where the source of the light is and the angle of the polygon in relation to it It enables relatively fast rendering of 3D objects although it can make those objects appear faceted as each visible polygon is set to a particular color value and consequently does not produce as realistic an effect as obtained when using Gouraud shading Fog Term used to describe the blending of an object using a fixed color as objects are made to appear more distant from the viewer Frame Buffer The portion of the memory buffer on the graphics card used to store the image being displayed All rendering processes have been accomplished by this stage and this buffer contains only a one to one relationship of the data to be relayed to the display 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 Gamma Sometimes confused with brightness gamma actually refers to the correction that is applied to any display device in order to produce more gradual increases or d
11. Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition User s Guide 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 without the express written permission of ATI Technologies Inc is strictly prohibited Disclaimer While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document ATI Technologies Inc assumes no liability with respect to the operation or use of ATI hardware software or other products and documentation described herein for any act or omission of ATI concerning such products or this documentation for any interruption of service loss or interruption of business loss of anticipatory profits or for punitive incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing performance or use of the 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 respect to ATI products which this document relate
12. age 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 individual polygons that make up 3D objects and pixel shaders operate on the individual pixels that fill in these polygons to create a visible image SmartShader 2 0 is designed to alleviate the resource constraints of earlier shader hardware paving the way for more complex detailed and realistic shader effects in applications requiring high performance 3D rendering HyperZ III makes Z buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer at higher resolutions Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition only displays 3D graphics in thousands and millions of colors If you set your display to 256 colors this will affect Finder OpenGL Quartz Extreme and QuickTime acceleration TV Out Support The Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition supports TV Out by using the optional Apple G5 DVI I to Video Adapter For more information see your local Apple reseller ATI Technologies 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 amp Mac Editio
13. alled in your computer The Support dialog provides an internet link to ATI Technologies web site Click Create Apple System Profiler Report to generate a detailed report of the computer s installed hardware and software Advanced Display Options Advanced Display Options adds even more functionality giving you complete control over your display ATI Technologies Advanced Display Options 7 To access the Advanced features open the ATI Displays control panel and click the ADVANCED button VersaVision Tab e eo Display Advanced Qs Ravpeonw Mac eoirio Info jana VERSAVISION Display Scaling Display Control Advanced DFP Relative Rotation Advanced 3D 180 Default Revert Use the VersaVision tab to rotate your display while maintaining the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies ATT 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 relative to its current position Hovering the mouse cursor over a direction button will show you a preview of the change Clicking the desired rotation button will cause the display to refresh and rotate Full 3D support is maintained regardless of rotation selected Use the Default button to reset Relative Rotation and return your display to
14. 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 background If the contrast is too low the image may look gray or washed out The Hue slider often used as a synonym for color is the quality that distinguishes among red green yellow and so on Hue is generally not adjusted Depending on the TV however it may be necessary or desirable to adjust the hue to approximate the monitor s display The Saturation slider is the amount of color present that distinguishes pale or washed out colors from vivid ones Extreme settings will produce black amp white greyscale output The Default button undoes all changes and sets everything to the factory default settings The Revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original state or last known good setting Ratio Size Tab Use the Ratio Size tab to adjust the Aspect Ratio and change the display size and position To set the video out preferences click the Mac2TV icon on the ATI Displays Control Panel then click the Ratio Size tab button ATI Technologies Ratio Size Tab 15 e002 NTSC PAL Mac2TV Ons Rapeonm OM Info EZ Aspect Ratio Mac2TV Adjustable _ Overscan Movie Mode e Display Position Display Size O z
15. d Os Rapeonss Mac eorriom Info _VERSAVISION Display Scaling Display Control Advanced DFP Advanced settings Advanced Enable ATI Hardware Scaler on Non Apple Panels Provides additional scaled non native modes v Enable Frequency Reduction on High Resolution Displays 3D Clock reduction may reduce noise on some DVI panels Enable Alternate DVI TMDS Receiver Mode Enables coherent TMDS Receiver support Ti receiver Settings apply to selected card Default Apply J 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 panels Default button undoes all changes and sets everything back to the original factory settings Apply button enables all the selected options at one time 3D OpenGL Overrides ATI Displays can override key 3D graphics options for OpenGL based games and applications Create a profile a group of settings that can be applied on a per program basis Use OpenGL Overrides to turn on OpenGL functionality when it is not supported by a specific application or turn off functionality where it is enabled by an application ATI Technologies 3D
16. e 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 Anti aliasing smooths out this jaggedness by filling in the white spaces between the jagged edges with varying shades of grey Aspect Ratio The proportions of a display are expressed as a ratio of its width and height Common ratios include 4 3 for TVs and CRTs 5 4 for LCDs and 16 9 for widescreen displays Back Buffer A type of offscreen memory used to provide smooth video and 2D graphics acceleration This technique uses two frame buffers so the process is often referred to as double buffering While the contents of one buffer are displayed a second buffer called the back buffer holds the frame being worked on In this way users will only see complete smooth frames displayed onscreen Bilinear Filtering This filtering method reduces the blockiness caused when zooming into a 3D surface that is at a right angle to the viewer A newspaper photo examined closely enough will show that the picture is made up of tiny dots If the photo was enlarged it would start to look blocky and less distinct This is also a problem for computer generated images especially for surface details Bit Depth Refers to the number of data bits requi
17. ecreases in the perceived brightness for that device A change in gamma produces a non linear change in the color curve ensuring that perceived changes in color and intensity are consistently applied Gouraud Shading A shading method used to produce a smooth lighting effect across a 3D object A specific color is used at each vertex of a triangle or polygon and interpolated across the entire face Hue Refers to a specific color within the visible spectrum of light defined by its dominant wavelength A light wave with a central tendency within the range of 565 590 nm is visible as yellow In the standard RGB color space used by most computer displays hue refers to a coordinate of the color as described by its red green and blue values minus any additional brightness or saturation values for that color Hyperz HyperZ decreases the amount of information sent to the frame buffer easing memory bandwidth limitations and allowing for ultra high resolutions and full screen 3D acceleration in true color It uses a Hierarchical Z buffer visibility algorithm to eliminate blocks of pixels that are hidden behind displayed triangles Z Compression to compress and speed the resulting visual data and Fast Z Clear which updates only those pixels whose values have changed 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 po
18. ected by the graphics card Mac2TV is only supported using the single link DVI output via an Apple DVI to Video adapter Set Up Tab e e o NTSC PAL Mac2TV 9 Rapneons J Mac enmon Info Setup Controls Ratio Size Ez Video Output Device Detected Mac2TV V Always Connected w Output Standard NTSC PAL Black amp White Advanced Extra Set up _ Hard Sync to TV Video Output shows whether a TV or VCR has been detected Select Always Connected to over ride this feature and force TV detection Video Output will display Device Detected Off or Device Detected On depending on whether TV mode is selected This feature is only supported by graphics cards with a native TV Out port The Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition has this feature greyed out as it is always supported when Mac2TV is enabled Use Output Standard to select and restrict the TV standard for your country The default setting is NTSC PAL which provides support for both standards Black amp White when enabled forces Black amp White output The video card produces greys instead of colors in the output signal producing sharper images and text ATI Technologies 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 ma
19. ed frames of video at a refresh rate of 25 Hz Pipeline In relation to computer graphic processors refers to the number of separate arithmetic units available for rendering the output on a display In general more pipelines available on a graphical processor means there are more 3D rendering capabilities available increasing overall 3D performance Pixel All computer images are made up of tiny dots Each individual dot is called a pixel a word created from the term picture element A pixel is the smallest indivisible unit of a digital image and can be only a single color The size of the pixel depends on how the display resolution has been set The smallest size a pixel can be is determined by the display s dot pitch which is measured in millimeters mm Pixel Tapesiry 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 NTSC television systems have a refresh rate of approximately 60 Hz whereas computer displays typically have refresh rates of 75 Hz or more At refresh rates of 70 Hz and lower screen flicker is often noticeable Rendering Rendering refers to the final drawing stages where the
20. es using Generlized Timing Formula Je A Enable ATI Valid and Safe Flags in Mode List Provides ATI specific mode parameters to Mac OS wi Enable Hot Plug Detection Allow OS to sense new display connections while the computer is on Settings apply to selected card Default Apply 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 Valid and Safe flags in mode list when enabled lets the video card to determine which video modes are valid and safe Enable Hot Plug Detection lets the operating system automatically detect when a display is connected to the computer and activates the Detect Displays button This removes the need to restart the computer after attaching a secondary display Default button undoes all changes and sets everything to the factory default settings Apply button causes all the selected options to be enabled at one time ATI Technologies 10 Advanced DFP Tab Advanced DFP Tab The features on this tab are intended to support Digital Flat Panels DFP only e e o Display Advance
21. exture maps on distant objects These texture maps are merely scaled down versions of the main texture map used when the object is up close and they use less memory NTSC The name for the type of analog television signal used throughout the Americas except Brazil and in Japan It draws a total of 525 vertical interlaced frames of video at a refresh rate of 60 Hz making it relatively 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 OpenGL Short for Open Graphics Library this is an industry standard for cross platform 3D graphics development It consists of a large number of functions that can be called upon in various programs such as games CAD and virtual reality systems to produce complex 3D objects from simpler more primitive building blocks Implementations currently exist under Windows Mac OS X and various forms of Unix including Linux PAL An acronym for Phase Alternating Line the name for a video broadcast standard used in much of Europe except France most of Asia the Middle East Africa and Australia It draws a total of 625 vertical interlac
22. f 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 amp Mac Edition turns your Mac computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse Use your new graphics accelerator card to e Enjoy true color 32 bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2560 x 1600 Watch full screen full motion DVD quality video using the Apple DVD Player or QuickTime playback acceleration Output your Mac s display to digital flat panels and digital projectors Output to analog displays and projectors The following information describes these features in more detail and suggests ways you can optimize your machine to get the most out of your card Viewing 3D Graphics Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition s 3D acceleration features support the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities e 4 pixel pipeline architecture 128 bit memory interface Hardware accelerated vertex and pixel shaders 1 6 Gigapixels per second fill rate e transform rate of 200 million vertices per second 8 6 GB sec memory bandwidth In addition the Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition offers the following graphics technologies SmoothVision 2 1 is an antialiasing solution that raises the bar for im
23. ferential Signaling TMDS 35 Trilinear filtering 35 TV 13 14 15 TV Out 12 U Using DVD and QuickTime Playback 16 UXGA 33 V VCR 15 VersaVision 7 35 Vertex shader 35 Vertical Syne 12 VGA 33 36 VGA connector 36 Video 29 36 Video Card features 2 Video Output 12 Viewing 3D Graphics 2 Ww Warranty 22 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Compliance 24 Windows 32 X XGA 33 Z Z buffer 36
24. hat customers will review the expense associated with the available support options and will choose the method that best meets their needs and budget e ATI Customer Care reserves the right to limit support options for products that are not registered or are at End of Life ATI Technologies 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 This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if notinstalled and used in accordance with manufacturer s instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiv
25. ing antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to ensure compliance with FCC regulations Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Industry Canada Compliance Statement ICES 003 This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES 003 Cet appareil num rique de la Classe B est conforme a la norme NMB 003 du Canada For further compliance information ATI Research Inc 4 Mount Royal Ave Marlborough MA 01752 1976 USA 508 303 3900 ATI Technologies Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Directive Compliance This product was manufactured by ATI Technologies Inc Glossary 2D 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 3D Acronym for three dimensiona
26. int could have a character with a neutral expression and the end point could have that same character smiling Additional frames are interpolated inserted between the two keyframes in order that morphs transforms the image so that there is a smooth transition between the key frames KTX Buffer Region Extension This OpenGL programming term refers to a feature that rapidly updates portions of the display of 3D modelling applications that change very quickly or have been moved or occluded It does this by optimizing the storage of buffer regions in the graphics card s memory buffer Other applications are typically not adversely affected when this is enabled Lighting In 3D computer graphics refers to aspects and quality of the virtual light source being used to make an object visible Lighting can strongly affect the mood of a scene For example a harsh light could be a bare lightbulb that is glaringly bright on the objects closest to it while casting strong shadows in the background A softer light would be more diffuse and not cast shadows such as you would get outdoors on a typical overcast day Mipmapping The most memory intensive aspect of 3D graphics are the textures that give an object its realism like wood marble leather and cloth Because objects in real life become less detailed as they move farther away from the viewer 3D programmers simulate this by using less detailed lower resolution t
27. l referring to computer graphics that appear to have volume and depth Various modelling processes take the representation of a three dimensional object provided by the computer program and render it by using various lighting components applying textures and setting layers of transparency or opacity as required in order to produce a realistic representation of a three dimensional object on a two dimensional display ADC Short for Apple Display Connector a type of video connection found only with certain Apple displays In addition to carrying the video signal to the monitor it also carries power so users can start their whole computer using the power button on the monitor This type of connector is being phased out in favor of DVI connectors Alpha Blending Alpha blending is used in 3D graphics to create transparent or opaque effects for surfaces such as glass and water Alpha is a transparency value so the lower the value the more transparent the image looks It is also used in animations to produce such things as fading effects where one image gradually fades into another Anisotropic Filtering A technique that preserves the surface details of an object as it recedes into the distance by utilizing and blending together the object s texture maps 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 th
28. martShader is ATI s patented shader technology providing custom transform and lighting effects for vertex shaders allowing for finer control over the shape and position of 3D objects as well as pixel shader effects that produce more accurate simulations of natural properties such as hair metal glass and water in a real time rendering environment Important visual cues such as reflections highlights and shadows from multiple light sources can be rendered more speedily and accurately It also increases the number of graphical effects that can be created increasing overall performance while conserving memory bandwidth SmoothVision SmoothVision supports high quality and high performance anti aliasing modes both of which are required for creating high quality 3D computer graphics Both of these modes provide users with the ability to choose between 2x 3x 4x 5x and 6x sampling allowing for a total of 10 different anti aliasing settings providing incrementally better more realistic visual displays The SmoothVision technology maintains a high level of performance even when a high anti aliasing sampling rate is selected Specular Highlight The bright usually small intense light reflected from a 3D surface with a high refraction value From the intensity and spread of this highlight users can differentiate between a hard smooth surface such as metal or porcelain or a soft textured surface such as fabric or
29. n has to offer Open the ATI Displays control panel 1 Open the Apple System Preferences 2 Click the ATI Displays icon or Click the Hard Disk icon Open Applications folder Open Utilities folder Open ATI Utilities folder Open ATI Displays Q R Q KN For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features refer to the built in help feature which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel n ATI Technologies 6 ATI Displays Control Panel ATI Displays Control Panel re e A Display Info Ras PE amp mac eorriom Info Advanced Resolution 2560 x 1600 Hi Color Depth Millions of Colors 3D Display Info Profile Support Refresh Rate Display Buffer Size 256 MB Detect Displays 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 video driver installed in your computer Even if ATI Displays cannot identify your ATI product it will still provide display configuration driver version and other related information A warning dialog will display if no ATI product is inst
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31. raphics 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 e Flexible dual display support enabling many combinations using digital and analog displays OpenGL acceleration providing superior 3D rendering performance advanced imaging and filtering techniques e Quartz Extreme and Core Image Industry leading DVD acceleration for High Bitrate low CPU usage and playback of the latest movies at any resolution The Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition can also be installed in a Microsoft Windows based computer For more information see the PC Getting Started guide that was shipped with your graphics card A PC specific version of the User s Guide can be found on the PC installation CD ROM System Requirements Hardware AGP 4X capable G4 or G5 computer Minimum 512MB of system memory Operating Mac OS X version 10 3 6 or higher System Monitor Compatible display devices DVI or VGA display using the supplied DVI to VGA adapter ADC Style Display Panel requires an adapter sold separately External Connections One Dual Link DVI output One Single Link DVI output Note Future references to Mac OS X in this manual are intended to be generic and inclusive of their respective versions o
32. red to store color information about a pixel Larger bit depth means a greater range of color information is capable of being encoded into each pixel For example binary bit of 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 to 1111 Sixteen bit color is capable of reproducing 65 536 colors and 24 bit color can display up to 16 777 216 individual colors Bitmap A bitmap is a graphic or character representation composed of individual pixels arranged horizontally in rows A monochrome bitmap uses one bit per pixel bpp Color bitmaps may use up to 32bpp depending on the color depth selected Brightness The amount of white or black that is applied to all colors onscreen By making the screen brighter you are adding more white to it This should not be confused with luminosity which measures the actual light level emitted from the computer display Buffer A name referring to portions of on board video memory One large buffer is always used to display images to the screen this is the display buffer The rest of offscreen memory is typically used by applications as back buffers z buffers and texture buffers Charisma Engine II
33. rnal Connections 1 Extra Set up 13 F FCC Compliance 23 Finder 3 Flat Shading 29 Fog 29 35 Force Single Display Operation 9 fps 30 Frame Buffer 29 Frames per second 30 Frames per second fps 30 Frozen Dot Crawl 13 Full Screen Anti Aliasing FSAA 12 G gamma 30 Gouraud Shading 29 30 GPU 3 Graphic Card features 2 H Hard Sync 13 Hard Sync to TV 13 Help 22 Hue 14 30 33 HyperZ 3 30 l IBM T221 display 20 Industry Canada Compliance 23 K Keyframe interpolation 31 KTX Buffer Region Extension 31 L Lighting 25 28 29 30 31 35 Linux 32 M Mac OS X 32 Mac2TV 12 14 Mipmapping 31 Monitor Resolution 2D video mode table 19 Multimedia Features 2 N NTSC 12 31 33 O Offscreen Memory 32 Open the ATI Displays 5 OpenGL 1 3 10 11 31 32 Optimizing Mac2TV 13 Output Standard 12 Overscan 15 P PAL 12 32 Pipeline 32 Pixel 26 27 29 32 34 Product Registration 21 Profile dialog 6 Q Quartz Extreme 1 3 QuickTime 3 16 R Radeon 6 Ratio Size Tab 14 Red Green Blue RGB 30 33 35 Refresh Rate 31 32 33 Related Documentation 2 Relative Rotation 7 Rendering 33 Resolution 29 31 32 33 36 rotation 7 35 S Saturation 14 30 33 scaling 35 Select or Create a Preset 11 Set Up Tab 12 Shadow mask 34 Sharpness 13 SmartShader 3 34 SmoothVision 3 34 Software ATI Guide 16 Specular highlight 34 Support dialog 6 Supported Modes 19 SXGA 33 System Requirements 1 gt Texel 34 Transition Minimized Dif
34. rted Modes Display Resolution Maximum Refresh 2048 X 1536 100 The minimum refresh rate for the above modes is 56Hz Digital Flat Panel Connection Type Resolution Example Product Single Link one DVI 1680 X 1050 Apple 20 Cinema HD Single Link one DVI 1920 X1200 Apple 23 Cinema HD or ADC Dual Link one DVI 2560 X 1600 Apple 30 Cinema HD Single Link one DVI 3840 X 2400 IBM T221 low refresh rate Using a reduced blanking interval compatible with Apple s Cinema HD ADC Display This timing is not compatible with VESA s 1920 x 1200 resolution when attached to an ADC connector 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 Availability Language Cost Access Online 24 7 English Complimentary ati com French Spanish Portuguese German Telephone 9 00AM English Toll Free 1 877 284 1566 US amp 7 00PM EST Canada Monday to Friday International 1 905 882 2626 and or local toll charges to Canada will apply Telephone 10 30 to English International 49 1803 Europe 00 00 GMT and or local toll 347345 and Othe
35. s ATI disclaims all express or implied warranties regarding such products including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability fitness for a particular purpose and non infringement Table of Contents Introduction e2eeeeeeeeees System Requirements External Connections Related Documentation Multimedia Features Viewing 3D Graphics TV Out Support ATI Displays Control Panel Introduction Open the ATI Displays control panel ATI Displays Control Panel Advanced Display Options VersaVision Tab Display Scaling Display Control Tab Advanced DFP Tab 3D OpenGL Overrides Add an Application Profile Select or Create a Preset Enabling Mac2TV Set Up Tab Optimizing Mac2TV Controls Tab Ratio Size Tab ATI Displays Preferences ATI Displays Help Using DVD and QuickTime Playback Using Digital Flat Panel DVI Specifications 000e ee eee Video Mode Table Digital Flat Panel Reference 020eeeeeeeeeeees Product Registration Customer Care Q NN N N N 9 9 O QI 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 16 16 16 17 T9 20 21 21 Compliance Information j j FCC Compliance Information Industry Canada Compliance Statement Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Directive Compliance GIOSSALY os oo ae nis eee ae ala a 23 23 24 CHAPTER 1 Introduction The Radeon 9600 PRO PC amp Mac Edition is a g
36. sk and onto the back of the glass screen The electron beams activate separate red green and blue values in various strengths in order to produce a colored image Dithering A computer graphics technique that takes advantage of the human eye s tendency to mix two colors that are adjacent to each other to produce smooth boundary transitions Dithering adds intermediate color values between two or more boundaries producing smoother more natural look to 2D images or 3D objects Dual Link DVI A dual link DVI transmits up to twice the amount of pixel information of single link DVI connection Use the dual link DVI connector for extremely high resolution displays such as Apple 30 inch Cinema HD Displays 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 The most common dot pitches for monitors range from 24 mm to 31 mm Also if a monitor with a 24 mm dot pitch is set to its highest possible resolution the pixel size will equal the dot pitch If the monitor is set to lower resolutions the pixels will be comprised of multiple dots DVI Acronym for Digital Video Interface a standard video connection used on many current computer displays There are three types of DVI connections DVI A analog
37. tiple displays Vertex Shader Three dimensional objects displayed on a screen are rendered using polygons each of which is made up of intersecting triangles A vertex is a corner of a triangle where it connects to another triangle and each vertex carries a considerable amount of information describing its coordinates in 3D space as well as its weight color texture coordinates fog and point size data A Vertex Shader is a graphics processing function that manipulates these values producing such things as more realistic lighting effects improved complex textures such as hair and fur and more accurate surface deformations such as waves rippling in a pool or the stretching and wrinkling of a character s clothes as he or she moves 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 Z buffer The portion of video memory that keeps track of which onscreen elements can be viewed and which are hidden behind other objects In the case of a 3D image it keeps track of which elements are occluded by the foreground in relation to the user s perspective or by another 3D object Index Numerics 2D 7 25 26
38. y 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 by changing the contrast brightness or size of your display To set the video out preferences click the Mac2TV icon on the ATI Displays Control Panel then click the Controls tab button Controls Tab e e o NTSC PAL Mac2TV Os Rapeonw PC amp mac eorriom Info Setup Controls Ratio Size Ez Sharpness Sharper HH Frozen Dot Crawl Mac2TV Anti Flicker T aT Q Brightness ee fan ih Hh TT NE Contrast e Hue Ea aA Co Fp A ioe era Saturation E TE TA TE TE E E EE NE TA Default Revert Advanced Sharpness makes details on the TV screen sharper Use this setting to make blurry text readable Frozen Dot Crawl when enabled removes the undesirable characteristic of many Composite televisions that is seen as thin jagged edges moving around objects on the screen It is especially useful for viewing pictures or stills S Video equipment does not exhibit this effect N ATI Technologies 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
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