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... Your Graphics Cards 2 Using Multiple Displays 3 Display Configurations 3 Using TV Display and Capture Features 7 Using TV Out 7 Connecting to HDTV 9 Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable 11 Using SCART Connectors for European TVs 11 Capturing Video 15 Catalyst® Control Center 19 Launching Catalyst® Control Center 19 Help 21 CrossFire™ 22 CrossFire™ FAQ...
... Your Graphics Cards 2 Using Multiple Displays 3 Display Configurations 3 Using TV Display and Capture Features 7 Using TV Out 7 Connecting to HDTV 9 Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable 11 Using SCART Connectors for European TVs 11 Capturing Video 15 Catalyst® Control Center 19 Launching Catalyst® Control Center 19 Help 21 CrossFire™ 22 CrossFire™ FAQ...
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...Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display. Consult your ATI Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card. For a list of trouble-free computing. System Requirements Hardware Operating System Monitor CrossFire™ Requirements • Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD ...with two (2) PCI Express® x16 slots and correct PCIe™ chipset driver. A second Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card. • Two CrossFire™ bridge interconnects. • A specialized PCI Express® 550 watt or greater power supply recommended. To implement a CrossFire™ system ...
...Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display. Consult your ATI Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card. For a list of trouble-free computing. System Requirements Hardware Operating System Monitor CrossFire™ Requirements • Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD ...with two (2) PCI Express® x16 slots and correct PCIe™ chipset driver. A second Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card. • Two CrossFire™ bridge interconnects. • A specialized PCI Express® 550 watt or greater power supply recommended. To implement a CrossFire™ system ...
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... to ensure that the power supply is recommended. For a list of compatible power supplies and the latest information, consult the CrossFire™ Web site at: ati.com/crossfire If you have not already done so, see the Getting Started Guide that the Radeon®X1900 family CrossFire™-ready graphics card has already been successfully installed.
... to ensure that the power supply is recommended. For a list of compatible power supplies and the latest information, consult the CrossFire™ Web site at: ati.com/crossfire If you have not already done so, see the Getting Started Guide that the Radeon®X1900 family CrossFire™-ready graphics card has already been successfully installed.
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...TV DVI-I connector with DVI-I-to-VGA adapter DVI-I -to -Composite adapter. When CrossFire™ is active other DVI connections on both graphics cards are required when CrossFire™ is active, please use either SurroundView™ (for two DVI-I monitors ... The S-video out can also support a composite connection via the S-video connection in composite, S-video, and component TV formats. DFP - HDTV - Your Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card provides hardware support for more information see the SurroundView™ manual) or an additional PCI graphics card. cathode ray...
...TV DVI-I connector with DVI-I-to-VGA adapter DVI-I -to -Composite adapter. When CrossFire™ is active other DVI connections on both graphics cards are required when CrossFire™ is active, please use either SurroundView™ (for two DVI-I monitors ... The S-video out can also support a composite connection via the S-video connection in composite, S-video, and component TV formats. DFP - HDTV - Your Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card provides hardware support for more information see the SurroundView™ manual) or an additional PCI graphics card. cathode ray...
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...settings aspect. For the latest information, see the CrossFire™ Web page at least two PCI Express® x16 slots. • Two Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ graphics cards, one used . When CrossFire™ is disabled, default CrossFire™ rendering modes are not identified in Advanced... mode in Advanced View. 2 Click Enable CrossFire™. to appear as an option within Catalyst® Control Center: • A CrossFire™-ready motherboard with at : ati.com/crossfire To access CrossFire™ • Select CrossFire™ in Catalyst® A.I., or when...
...settings aspect. For the latest information, see the CrossFire™ Web page at least two PCI Express® x16 slots. • Two Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ graphics cards, one used . When CrossFire™ is disabled, default CrossFire™ rendering modes are not identified in Advanced... mode in Advanced View. 2 Click Enable CrossFire™. to appear as an option within Catalyst® Control Center: • A CrossFire™-ready motherboard with at : ati.com/crossfire To access CrossFire™ • Select CrossFire™ in Catalyst® A.I., or when...
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The following are required: • Two Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics cards. • Two CrossFire™ bridge interconnects. • A CrossFire™-ready motherboard with two PCIe™ x16 slots. • A 550-watt or better power supply. More information on the Radeon® X1950 Pro? Radeon® X1950 Pro using CrossFire™ bridge interconnects What motherboards support CrossFire™? For a comprehensive list of these components can...
The following are required: • Two Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics cards. • Two CrossFire™ bridge interconnects. • A CrossFire™-ready motherboard with two PCIe™ x16 slots. • A 550-watt or better power supply. More information on the Radeon® X1950 Pro? Radeon® X1950 Pro using CrossFire™ bridge interconnects What motherboards support CrossFire™? For a comprehensive list of these components can...
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... Radeon® X1950 Pro cards are disabled when CrossFire™ is enabled reappear after CrossFire™ is successfully enabled, all of the Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ implementation. 24 Are there specific CMOS motherboard settings for a Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ to support only a single PCI Express® x16 slot. Multiple monitors/ displays that both PCIe™ x16 slots are the graphics cards connected on a CrossFire...
... Radeon® X1950 Pro cards are disabled when CrossFire™ is enabled reappear after CrossFire™ is successfully enabled, all of the Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ implementation. 24 Are there specific CMOS motherboard settings for a Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ to support only a single PCI Express® x16 slot. Multiple monitors/ displays that both PCIe™ x16 slots are the graphics cards connected on a CrossFire...
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...ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. each card processes the complex 3D objects in a fine-grained checkerboard pattern. the two graphics cards are available: • SuperTiling - CrossFire...card renders up to it. • Scissor Mode - If Catalyst® A.I. Which games/applications work ? CrossFire™ is automatically selected. The following dynamic rendering modes are used to make CrossFire™ work with all 3D games and applications. 25 CrossFire™ bridge interconnect To install the CrossFire™ bridge interconnects, see the Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire...
...ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. each card processes the complex 3D objects in a fine-grained checkerboard pattern. the two graphics cards are available: • SuperTiling - CrossFire...card renders up to it. • Scissor Mode - If Catalyst® A.I. Which games/applications work ? CrossFire™ is automatically selected. The following dynamic rendering modes are used to make CrossFire™ work with all 3D games and applications. 25 CrossFire™ bridge interconnect To install the CrossFire™ bridge interconnects, see the Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire...
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...100% have one of up to drive multiple monitors using a CrossFire™ system when CrossFire™ is not enabled, any Direct 3D® applications that are running on a system based on different anti-aliasing patterns within each frame. The two graphics cards work , the Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card...is enabled, more displays can be either Scissor or SuperTiling mode. Performance enhancements experienced on a CrossFire™ system depend on a single display, it is expected? If the motherboard contains an integrated video connection and SurroundView™ is enabled in...
...100% have one of up to drive multiple monitors using a CrossFire™ system when CrossFire™ is not enabled, any Direct 3D® applications that are running on a system based on different anti-aliasing patterns within each frame. The two graphics cards work , the Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics card...is enabled, more displays can be either Scissor or SuperTiling mode. Performance enhancements experienced on a CrossFire™ system depend on a single display, it is expected? If the motherboard contains an integrated video connection and SurroundView™ is enabled in...
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...; system are performance-oriented modes, while Super Anti-aliasing is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform, using ATI CrossFire™ ready motherboards and ATI graphics cards. Allowable Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ System Components The basic requirements of the main features and configurations for dividing the workload required to render a 3D image across multiple GPUs. Each...
...; system are performance-oriented modes, while Super Anti-aliasing is the ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform, using ATI CrossFire™ ready motherboards and ATI graphics cards. Allowable Radeon® X1950 Pro CrossFire™ System Components The basic requirements of the main features and configurations for dividing the workload required to render a 3D image across multiple GPUs. Each...
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28 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes The ATI Catalyst® display driver automatically selects the best of being rendered on Display SuperTiling has the advantage of the three ... special cases, Scissor Mode can also choose to work with practically any software overhead. 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 4 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final Rendered Frame on the display, doing so without any 3D application. SuperTiling In this...
28 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes The ATI Catalyst® display driver automatically selects the best of being rendered on Display SuperTiling has the advantage of the three ... special cases, Scissor Mode can also choose to work with practically any software overhead. 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 4 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final Rendered Frame on the display, doing so without any 3D application. SuperTiling In this...
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... order to maximize compatibility and performance. CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 29 Scissor Mode In this mode, each frame is split into two horizontal or vertical sections,with each application. 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 4 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final Rendered Frame on Display Although...
... order to maximize compatibility and performance. CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 29 Scissor Mode In this mode, each frame is split into two horizontal or vertical sections,with each application. 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 4 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final Rendered Frame on Display Although...
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...CrossFire™ Rendering Modes Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Mode In this mode, all even frames are rendered on one GPU, while all odd frames are rendered on Display The main limitation of this mode is that it cannot be combined. 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card... 4 Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final ...
...CrossFire™ Rendering Modes Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Mode In this mode, all even frames are rendered on one GPU, while all odd frames are rendered on Display The main limitation of this mode is that it cannot be combined. 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card... 4 Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final ...
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... blending for each GPU render the same frame with SmoothVision™ HD technology uses a method known as Multi-sample Anti-aliasing (MSAA). The latest generation of the frame are completed, they are blended in the CrossFire Compositing engine. When both versions of ATI's Radeon® GPUs with anti-aliasing enabled, but uses different sample...
... blending for each GPU render the same frame with SmoothVision™ HD technology uses a method known as Multi-sample Anti-aliasing (MSAA). The latest generation of the frame are completed, they are blended in the CrossFire Compositing engine. When both versions of ATI's Radeon® GPUs with anti-aliasing enabled, but uses different sample...
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...It takes advantage of multiple GPUs can have a drastic impact on Display Some types of a more effective sample CrossFire™'s Super Antialiasing overcomes both of these cases, because it affects every pixel in an ordered grid sample pattern...which is output to the display's resolution. 32 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 4 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final Rendered Frame on performance, and that ...
...It takes advantage of multiple GPUs can have a drastic impact on Display Some types of a more effective sample CrossFire™'s Super Antialiasing overcomes both of these cases, because it affects every pixel in an ordered grid sample pattern...which is output to the display's resolution. 32 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 1 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 4 Partial Frame Rendered on Radeon® X1950 Pro Graphics Card 5 Final Rendered Frame on performance, and that ...
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.... Both of anti-aliasing near-horizontal and near-vertical edges, resulting in this manner, combining 2x SSAA with SmoothVision™ HD Anisotropic Filtering (AF). CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 33 pattern that does a better job of these modes work by not only using different multi-sample locations... on each GPU renders the image from a different viewpoint, about half a pixel width apart. In effect, each GPU, but also by users through the ATI ...
.... Both of anti-aliasing near-horizontal and near-vertical edges, resulting in this manner, combining 2x SSAA with SmoothVision™ HD Anisotropic Filtering (AF). CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 33 pattern that does a better job of these modes work by not only using different multi-sample locations... on each GPU renders the image from a different viewpoint, about half a pixel width apart. In effect, each GPU, but also by users through the ATI ...
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... the corresponding internal VMO connection of the other end of the cards. 2. The CrossFire™ aspect is running ." CrossFire™ Aspect in the Catalyst® Control Center if a 3D application, game, or video playback, such as a DVD movie, is only available when the two Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics cards have been correctly attached. Connect one of the...
... the corresponding internal VMO connection of the other end of the cards. 2. The CrossFire™ aspect is running ." CrossFire™ Aspect in the Catalyst® Control Center if a 3D application, game, or video playback, such as a DVD movie, is only available when the two Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics cards have been correctly attached. Connect one of the...
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... TV will not play in the primary PCI Express® slot. You can 't see the entire display The display appears tilted My CRT display is green • Ensure that the HDTV Component Video Adapter is properly connected, then restart your...Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics cards if neither card is no display on my TV DVDs will not display anything until Windows starts; this may take several minutes. • Set your TV to YPbPr input. • Ensure that the connections between the Component Video Adapter and your computer with the CRT monitor connected. 38 Troubleshooting CrossFire...
... TV will not play in the primary PCI Express® slot. You can 't see the entire display The display appears tilted My CRT display is green • Ensure that the HDTV Component Video Adapter is properly connected, then restart your...Radeon® X1950 Pro graphics cards if neither card is no display on my TV DVDs will not display anything until Windows starts; this may take several minutes. • Set your TV to YPbPr input. • Ensure that the connections between the Component Video Adapter and your computer with the CRT monitor connected. 38 Troubleshooting CrossFire...
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... makes 3D objects appear more realistic as glass and water. Alpha is used in 3D graphics to render a scene, delivering a noticeable increase in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. Anti-aliasing smooths out this jaggedness by utilizing and blending together the...
... makes 3D objects appear more realistic as glass and water. Alpha is used in 3D graphics to render a scene, delivering a noticeable increase in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. Anti-aliasing smooths out this jaggedness by utilizing and blending together the...
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... In terms of the RGB color model, a fully saturated color exists when you have 100% brightness in the two others (green and blue). This type of the three channels... only half of the screen instead of the color values are used mainly in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. ...graphical load-balancing scheme where two graphics cards are the same. One graphics card renders the top half of an image display. The default VGA resolution of many video cards is vivid and intense, whereas a...
... In terms of the RGB color model, a fully saturated color exists when you have 100% brightness in the two others (green and blue). This type of the three channels... only half of the screen instead of the color values are used mainly in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. ...graphical load-balancing scheme where two graphics cards are the same. One graphics card renders the top half of an image display. The default VGA resolution of many video cards is vivid and intense, whereas a...