ATI Technologies RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION Manual de usuario

RADEON™8500 MAC EDITION

User’s Guide

Version 1.0 - February 2002

P/N: 137-40315-10

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Introduction

The RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION represents the next

generation in 3D and video acceleration for your Power

Macintosh computer. It includes 64MB of DDR memory for

fast 32-bit true color 3D graphics. Flexible dual-display support

for multiple combinations of CRT monitors, TVs and video

devices is included. Your new graphics accelerator provides:

• Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations

utilizing the VGA, DVI-I, and TV connectors

• OpenGL®and QuickDraw 3D accelerator providing

superior 3D rendering performance and advanced imaging

and filtering techniques

• QuickTime playback accelerator for full screen, full

motion, TV quality video

• DVI-I support for digital flat panels

• TV-Out support via S-Video connector

The ATI Config Menu (available only for Mac OS 9.2.1), is

located on the Apple menu bar. This provides instant access to

Help, the ATI Displays control panel, and all of RADEON 8500

MAC EDITION features.

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What You'll Need

The RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION runs with the following

minimum system requirements:

• Any Power Macintosh computer with an AGP expansion

slot

• Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS X version 10.1 or higher

• OpenGL 1.2.2 (required for 3D graphics)

• Apple multi-frequency monitor, VGA-style monitor (see

note below),DVI-I style digital flat panel, or TV

• QuickTime 5.0 (earlier versions are NOT supported) or

higher

• Minimum 64MB of system memory required for Mac OS

9.2.1

• Minimum 128MB of system memory required for

Mac OS X version 10.1

OpenGL 1.2.2 or higher is required to obtain full 3D graphics

functionality in Mac OS 9.2.1 applications. OpenGL 1.2.2 is

only available from Apple as part of Mac OS 9.2.1. or 9.2.2.

Apple branded digital flat panels with an ADC connector must

use a third party adapter.

Apple analog monitors without a VGA connector must use a

the supplied adapter to connect to the RADEON 8500 MAC

EDITION graphics accelerator.

Future references to Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X in this manual

are intended to be generic and inclusive of their respective

versions of the Macintosh operating systems

NOTE

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Related Documentation

The README file summarizes the latest product revisions.

Click the README icon on the installation disk to open this

file.

The RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION comes with ATI Guide

for Mac OS 9, which provides on-line help for making the best

use of your card’s features. There are two methods of accessing

the ATI Guide. From the Mac OS menu bar under the ATI icon

choose ATI Guide. From the ATI Displays control panel, you

can access the ATI Guide by clicking on the Apple Guide

icon. RADEON Help can be found in the Apple Help menu.

Help is available in Mac OS X by simply clicking on the

button in the ATI Displays control panel or through the Apple

Help Center. You can browse through the Help or search for a

specific topic.

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Multimedia Features

Your RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION turns your Mac

computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. You can use

your new graphics accelerator card to do the following:

• Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2048x1536

• Watch full screen, full motion, TV-quality video using

QuickTime playback acceleration

• Output your Mac’s display to a digital flat panel

• Output your Mac’s display to your TV

The following information describes these new features in more

detail and suggests ways you can optimize your machine to get

the most out of your new card.

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Viewing 3D Graphics

RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration features

supports the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities:

• OpenGL Support

• QuickDraw 3D RAVE Support

• Twin Cache Architecture

• Single Pass Multi-texturing

• Triangle Setup Engine

• Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering

• Line Anti-aliasing

• Specular Highlights

• Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping

•Mip-Mapping

• Z-buffering and Double-buffering

• Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid, 3D Texturing and Cubic

environment mapping

In addition, the RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION brings new

and exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh platform:

TRUFORM™is a rendering technology that pre-processes 3D

artwork being fed into the graphics accelerator by converting it

from flat triangle data into curved surface data, allowing much

more highly detailed and realistically lit images with virtually

no performance loss.

SMOOTHVISION™is an anti-aliasing solution that raises the bar

for image quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to

post-process graphics before they are displayed.

SMARTSHADER™(supported in Mac OS X only) is a new

technology which revolutionizes the graphics pipeline by making both

the geometry processing and pixel processing stages more

programmable than ever before. Developers can easily create amazing

new graphics effects while maintaining a high level of performance.

HYPER Z™II makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by

decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer.

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CHARISMA ENGINE™II is a transform and lighting technology

which controls changing shapes and lighting while maintaining fast 3D

game performance

PIXEL TAPESTRY™II uses six independent texture units per

rendering pipeline giving highly realistic and detailed 3D graphics.

VIDEO IMMERSION™II incorporates MPEG-2 decoding,

adaptive de-interlacing, and frame rate conversion.

These features make it possible to quickly render 3D graphics,

produce atmospheric effects, calculate light and color shading,

and determine which objects are in the foreground and which

are in the background.

RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION only displays 3D graphics in

thousands and millions of colors. When you use 256 colors,

there are too few colors to display complex 3D textures, so 3D

acceleration is not supported.

You can use the 3D Memory Monitor in the ATI Displays

control panel to see how memory on your RADEON 8500 MAC

EDITION is allocated when displaying 3D graphics. This allows

you to optimize 3D performance.

The 3D Memory Monitor is only supported in Mac OS 9.

NOTE

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ATI Displays Control Panel For Mac OS 9

The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced

features that RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION has to offer. To

open the ATI Displays control panel, choose Control Panels

from the Apple menu, then choose ATI Displays, or choose ATI

Displays from the ATI Config Menu from the menu bar.

For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features,

please refer to the ATI Guide/ATI Help, which can be accessed

through the ATI Displays control panel.

Status Area

Look in the Status Area to determine your current monitor,

screen resolution, and color depth. To change display settings

use the Monitors feature to open the Monitors control panel.

You can also change the monitor depth and resolutions at any

time using the Apple control strip, if installed.

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