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v Table of Contents Introduction 1 Radeon® X1300 Series Features 1 Graphic Features 1 CrossFire™ Ready 3 System Requirements 4 External Connections 4 Before You Begin 4 Record Your Serial and Part Numbers 4 Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 5 Installing Hardware 7 Graphics Card Bus Types 7 Basic Graphics Card Installation 7 Advanced Installation: AGP 9 Advanced Installation: PCIe™ 11 Connecting Devices 14 Using Multiple Displays 15...
v Table of Contents Introduction 1 Radeon® X1300 Series Features 1 Graphic Features 1 CrossFire™ Ready 3 System Requirements 4 External Connections 4 Before You Begin 4 Record Your Serial and Part Numbers 4 Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 5 Installing Hardware 7 Graphics Card Bus Types 7 Basic Graphics Card Installation 7 Advanced Installation: AGP 9 Advanced Installation: PCIe™ 11 Connecting Devices 14 Using Multiple Displays 15...
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FullScreen 3D 74 Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series 75 Standard Settings 76 Adjustments 77 Video Overlay Theater Mode 79 Deinterlacing 80 All Settings 82 VPU Recover 85 Using TV Display and Capture Features 89 Using TV Out 89 Viewing Your ...
FullScreen 3D 74 Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series 75 Standard Settings 76 Adjustments 77 Video Overlay Theater Mode 79 Deinterlacing 80 All Settings 82 VPU Recover 85 Using TV Display and Capture Features 89 Using TV Out 89 Viewing Your ...
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...video memory bandwidth. We hope that is not visible to 128-tap texture filtering. HyperZ™ • Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant object data that you will enjoy countless hours of your ATI Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. Radeon® X1300 Series Features Graphic Features • Native PCI Express...® X16 bus support. • Four parallel rendering pipelines. • 32/MB/64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB...
...video memory bandwidth. We hope that is not visible to 128-tap texture filtering. HyperZ™ • Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant object data that you will enjoy countless hours of your ATI Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. Radeon® X1300 Series Features Graphic Features • Native PCI Express...® X16 bus support. • Four parallel rendering pipelines. • 32/MB/64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB...
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2 Radeon® X1300 Series Features • Loss-less Z-buffer compression • Z Cache optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions. De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion...• Up to 1,536 instructions per rendering pass. • 3Dc+ texture compression • High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps. • Works with video in OpenGL® 2.0. VideoShader™ • Seamlessly integrates pixel shaders with any single-channel or two-channel data format. • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support...
2 Radeon® X1300 Series Features • Loss-less Z-buffer compression • Z Cache optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions. De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion...• Up to 1,536 instructions per rendering pass. • 3Dc+ texture compression • High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps. • Works with video in OpenGL® 2.0. VideoShader™ • Seamlessly integrates pixel shaders with any single-channel or two-channel data format. • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support...
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...processors in conjunction with performance and quality options. CrossFire™ Ready Your Radeon® X1300 Series is CrossFire™ Ready and can be used in a single system. For more information see ati.com/crossfire Note: Not all Radeon® X1300 Series graphics cards. Radeon® X1300 Series Features 3 High Dynamic Range (HDR) Rendering • 64-bit .../8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes • Up to all features apply to 128-tap texture filtering. • Adaptive algorithm with a graphics cards of the same brand-family to complete a CrossFire™ capable system.
...processors in conjunction with performance and quality options. CrossFire™ Ready Your Radeon® X1300 Series is CrossFire™ Ready and can be used in a single system. For more information see ati.com/crossfire Note: Not all Radeon® X1300 Series graphics cards. Radeon® X1300 Series Features 3 High Dynamic Range (HDR) Rendering • 64-bit .../8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes • Up to all features apply to 128-tap texture filtering. • Adaptive algorithm with a graphics cards of the same brand-family to complete a CrossFire™ capable system.
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...2 Navigate to the Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs. 3 Select your system and remove the old graphics card. Note: If the previously installed graphics card has any additional software installed, it from your computer. To uninstall previous drivers With your current graphics...card still in bold above, down before removing it should also be removed at this point. 4 Turn off your current graphics card drivers and select Add/Remove. Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of your new Radeon® X1300 Series card, you remove your new ATI...
...2 Navigate to the Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs. 3 Select your system and remove the old graphics card. Note: If the previously installed graphics card has any additional software installed, it from your computer. To uninstall previous drivers With your current graphics...card still in bold above, down before removing it should also be removed at this point. 4 Turn off your current graphics card drivers and select Add/Remove. Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of your new Radeon® X1300 Series card, you remove your new ATI...
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15 CHAPTER 3: Using Multiple Displays Connecting Your Monitors Your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card provides hardware support for clone or extended display support. The TV Out connection can be combined with DVI or VGA (DVI-I -to-VGA adapter use required) for the following TV formats (cables not provided): • Composite. • S-video. • Component. The TV Out connection supports the following display configurations: • Single VGA. • Single DVI. • Dual VGA (DVI-I -toVGA adapter use required).
15 CHAPTER 3: Using Multiple Displays Connecting Your Monitors Your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card provides hardware support for clone or extended display support. The TV Out connection can be combined with DVI or VGA (DVI-I -to-VGA adapter use required) for the following TV formats (cables not provided): • Composite. • S-video. • Component. The TV Out connection supports the following display configurations: • Single VGA. • Single DVI. • Dual VGA (DVI-I -toVGA adapter use required).
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... the adapter. 2 DVI-I-to -VGA adapter into the DVI-I Connection. Note: If you use multiple monitors, the Radeon® X1300 Series card must be the primary. Normally, the system BIOS determines which graphics card will be the primary graphics card. To connect a digital display. To connect a VGA monitor to the DVI-I connector, plug the supplied DVI...
... the adapter. 2 DVI-I-to -VGA adapter into the DVI-I Connection. Note: If you use multiple monitors, the Radeon® X1300 Series card must be the primary. Normally, the system BIOS determines which graphics card will be the primary graphics card. To connect a digital display. To connect a VGA monitor to the DVI-I connector, plug the supplied DVI...
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...then restart your computer so that provides many additional configuration features. Display Configurations Your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card provides dual display functionality. Note: When you can be accessed by clicking the ...ATI provides Catalyst® Control Center software that Windows® can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to -VGA adapter CRT- Any additional monitors will always be designated as appropriate for your Radeon® X1300 Series card...
...then restart your computer so that provides many additional configuration features. Display Configurations Your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card provides dual display functionality. Note: When you can be accessed by clicking the ...ATI provides Catalyst® Control Center software that Windows® can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to -VGA adapter CRT- Any additional monitors will always be designated as appropriate for your Radeon® X1300 Series card...
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... make sure that you have reinstalled or upgraded your operating system. Make sure your monitor cable is not supported. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to Windows® XP. When the System Settings Change window asks you through the ...your computer, click No. Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. When the Found New Hardware Wizard appears, click Cancel. CHAPTER 4: Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® 21 Installing Software and...
... make sure that you have reinstalled or upgraded your operating system. Make sure your monitor cable is not supported. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to Windows® XP. When the System Settings Change window asks you through the ...your computer, click No. Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. When the Found New Hardware Wizard appears, click Cancel. CHAPTER 4: Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® 21 Installing Software and...
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...online help and documentation for the second monitor. To manually reinstall drivers Reinstall the drivers at any time using the ATISETUP utility located on the ATI Installation CD-ROM. Any additional monitors will be Primary. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows... and choose Properties. 2 Choose the Settings tab and select the screen resolution and color depth that best suit your requirements and your Radeon® X1300 Series card, one monitor will always be designated as appropriate for further information on using the Settings tab.
...online help and documentation for the second monitor. To manually reinstall drivers Reinstall the drivers at any time using the ATISETUP utility located on the ATI Installation CD-ROM. Any additional monitors will be Primary. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows... and choose Properties. 2 Choose the Settings tab and select the screen resolution and color depth that best suit your requirements and your Radeon® X1300 Series card, one monitor will always be designated as appropriate for further information on using the Settings tab.
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Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Use the Avivo™ Video aspect to set aspect ratio and overlay display mode. Note: Clicking Defaults will be saved once you click OK. Previous settings are not altered and ..., not just the feature in the current view. Use Theater Mode to apply standard video settings with a Wizard or selecting a video preset. Preview your changes and exit the Catalyst® Control Center. 78 Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Apply your settings 1 Click Apply to save your changes and leave the Catalyst®...
Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Use the Avivo™ Video aspect to set aspect ratio and overlay display mode. Note: Clicking Defaults will be saved once you click OK. Previous settings are not altered and ..., not just the feature in the current view. Use Theater Mode to apply standard video settings with a Wizard or selecting a video preset. Preview your changes and exit the Catalyst® Control Center. 78 Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Apply your settings 1 Click Apply to save your changes and leave the Catalyst®...
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... a TV and a monitor at the same time. Viewing Your PC's Display on a TV You can attach your Radeon® X1300 Series card to a TV, use the TV display and video capture features of your TV as a display. To connect S-Video Out 1 Power off your monitor before turning on a screen larger than a typical monitor. TV display is...
... a TV and a monitor at the same time. Viewing Your PC's Display on a TV You can attach your Radeon® X1300 Series card to a TV, use the TV display and video capture features of your TV as a display. To connect S-Video Out 1 Power off your monitor before turning on a screen larger than a typical monitor. TV display is...
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... automatically or become scrambled (your PC monitor or portable LCD display will be affected). Connecting to HDTV 95 Some single-frequency monitors may program your Radeon® X1300 Series directly to run under a specific display mode. The maximum display resolution for the following: • Y = Green • Pb = Blue • Pr = Red Connecting to...
... automatically or become scrambled (your PC monitor or portable LCD display will be affected). Connecting to HDTV 95 Some single-frequency monitors may program your Radeon® X1300 Series directly to run under a specific display mode. The maximum display resolution for the following: • Y = Green • Pb = Blue • Pr = Red Connecting to...
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...video card and monitor support resolution and refresh rates you installed your enhanced driver. • Check if your monitor supports the resolution, horizontal (kHz) and vertical (Hz) refresh rates as required by the graphics card...• Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the graphics card. • Check the...Flat Panel (DFP) monitor users: refer to your monitor's documentation for your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in monitor damage. 104 Troubleshooting General...
...video card and monitor support resolution and refresh rates you installed your enhanced driver. • Check if your monitor supports the resolution, horizontal (kHz) and vertical (Hz) refresh rates as required by the graphics card...• Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the graphics card. • Check the...Flat Panel (DFP) monitor users: refer to your monitor's documentation for your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in monitor damage. 104 Troubleshooting General...