ATI Technologies Radeon X300 Series Manual de usuario

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RADEON™ X300 Series

User’s Guide

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•Read Instructions - All the safety and operating instructions should

be read before the product is operated.

•Retain Instructions - The safety and operating instructions should

be retained for future reference.

•Heed Warnings - All warnings on the product and the operating

instructions should be adhered to.

•Compatibility - This option card is for use only with IBM AT or

compatible UL Listed personal computers that have Installation

Instructions detailing user installation of card cage accessories.

•Grounding - For continued protection against risk of electric shock

and fire, this accessory should be installed only in products equipped

with a three-wire grounding plug, a plug having a third (grounding)

pin. This plug will only fit into a grounding-type power outlet. This is a

safety feature. If you are unable to insert the plug into the outlet,

contact your electrician to replace the obsolete outlet. Do not defeat

the safety purpose of the grounding-type plug.

•Secure Attachment

- All card securement pins shall be completely

tightened as to provide continuous bonding between the option card

and the PC chassis.

•Lightning - For added protection for this product during a lightning

storm, or when it is left unattended and unused for long periods of

time, unplug it from the wall outlet, and disconnect the antenna or

cable system. This will prevent damage to the product due to

lightning and power-line surges.

•Power Lines - An outside antenna system should not be located in

the vicinity of overhead power lines or other light or power circuits, or

where it can fall into such power lines or circuits.

•Antenna Installation - When installing an outside antenna system,

extreme care should be taken to keep from touching such power lines

or circuits, as contact with them may be fatal.

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

RADEON™ X300 Series Features 1

Graphic Features 1

External Connections 1

Using Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Connecting Your Monitors 3

Display Configurations 4

ATI’s CATALYST™ Software Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Introduction 5

Features 5

Multiple Displays and 3D Gaming 5

HYDRAVISION™ 5

Accessing the CATALYST™ Software Suite 5

ATI Displays Tab 6

ATI Color Tab 8

Hotkeys 12

Color Hotkeys Settings 13

ATI Options Tab 15

Options Details Tab 16

ATI Rotation Tab 17

Rotation HotKeys 19

ATI Overlay Tab 20

Video Overlay 20

Clone Mode Settings 21

ATI 3D Tab 23

Custom Properties Dialog 25

Direct 3D® Compatibility Settings 28

OpenGL® Compatibility Settings 29

ATI VPU Recover Tab 30

Using TV Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using TV Out 33

View your PC’s display on a TV 33

Starting Windows® with TV Display Enabled 35

Using SCART Connectors for European TVs 35

How To Enable/Disable The TV Display 36

Using and Adjusting TV Display Features 36

How TV Display Cannot Be Used 36

Using a Monitor vs. Using TV Display 36

Adjusting Monitor Display 36

Viewing Text on a TV 37

Reducing Edge Distortion 37

Using TV Display Alone 38

Using Games and Applications 38

Select your TV broadcast format 38

Adjust your TV screen size 39

Adjust your TV screen position 40

Adjust the composite sharpness of your TV display 40

Adjust the S-Video sharpness of your TV display 41

Adjust the composite dot crawl on your TV Display 41

Adjust the chroma flicker removal setting on your TV Display (if

available) 42

Adjust the luma flicker removal setting on your TV Display 42

Reset the advanced settings on your TV Display(if available) 43

Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

FCC Compliance Information 45

Industry Canada Compliance Statement 45

CE Compliance Information 46

L’Information de conformité de la CE 46

CE-Konformitätserklärung 46

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

RADEON™ X300 Series Features 1

CHAPTER 3:

Introduction

RADEON™ X300 Series Features

Graphic Features

• Four parallel rendering pipelines.

• SMARTSHADER™

• Full hardware-based support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0/9.1

programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.

• Shadow volume rendering acceleration.

• Complete feature-set support for OpenGL® 1.5 and 2.0

extensions.

• SMOOTHVISION™

• Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and

improves blurred images.

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with aloss-less compression up to a

ratio of 6:1 at all resolutions.

• 2x/4x//8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes with up to 128-tap

texture filtering.

• HYPER Z™

• Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant

object data that is not visible to the user.

• Conserves video memory bandwidth.

• Loss-less Z-buffer compression

• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.

• VIDEOSHADER™

• Seamlessly integrates pixel shaders with video in real time.

• All format DTV/HDTV decoding.

• Adaptive Per-Pixel- De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion.

External Connections

• 15-pin D-shell (female) VGA output.

• DVI-I output.

2 RADEON™ X300 Series Features

• S-Video output or Video In/Video Out (VIVO) connection.

CHAPTER 4:

Using Displays

Connecting Your Monitors

Your RADEON™ X300 Series provides hardware support for one VGA

monitor as well as TV output via a S-Video Out or Composite Out

connector.

Note: If you use multiple monitors, the RADEON™ X300 Series

card must be the primary graphics card. Normally, the system BIOS

determines which graphics card will be the primary.

Connections and Adapters for the RADEON™ X300 Series Card

Standard VGA Monitor Connector. To connect a VGA monitor

to the DVI-I connector, plug the supplied DVI-I-to-VGA adapter

into the DVI-I connector, then plug your monitor cable into the

adapter.

4 Display Configurations

To connect your monitor

Power off your computer and monitor.

Plug the monitor cable into the appropriate connector.

Power on your monitor first, and then restart your computer so that

Windows® can detect the new hardware settings.

When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate

prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to load the drivers for your

RADEON™ X300 Series card.

Display Configurations

Your RADEON™ X300 Series graphics card provides single display

functionality and TV Out. The following table lists the different ways you

can connect displays to your card.

Display

Configuration Connector(s)

Used Comments

Single CRT

display VGA connector CRT- cathode ray tube analog display.

Single TV S-Video Out The S-Video out can also support a

composite connection via the S-

Video-to-Composite adapter.

Single TV Composite Out

CRT display +

TV VGA connector +

S-Video Out

CRT display +

TV VGA connector +

Composite Out

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