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... without the express written permission of this manual, or parts thereof, in the diagrams. Reproduction of ATI Technologies Inc. is strictly prohibited. RADEON™ 9000 PRO MAC EDITION User's Guide P/N: 137-40360-00 Copyright © 2002, ATI Technologies Inc. Features, performance and specifications are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners...
... without the express written permission of this manual, or parts thereof, in the diagrams. Reproduction of ATI Technologies Inc. is strictly prohibited. RADEON™ 9000 PRO MAC EDITION User's Guide P/N: 137-40360-00 Copyright © 2002, ATI Technologies Inc. Features, performance and specifications are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners...
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Table of Contents Introduction 1 What You'll Need 2 Related Documentation 3 Multimedia Features 4 Viewing 3D Graphics 5 ATI Displays Control Panel 7 3D Memory Monitor 9 Using the 3D Memory Monitor 9 Display 10 Textures 10 Buffers 10 DVD...10 ATI Displays Preferences 11 ATI HELP 11 Using QuickTime Playback 12 Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI-I 13 Video Mode Table 15 Supported 2D Modes 15 Digital Flat Panel 16 Specifications 17 System Requirements 17 Operating System 17 Glossary 19 Index 22 iii
Table of Contents Introduction 1 What You'll Need 2 Related Documentation 3 Multimedia Features 4 Viewing 3D Graphics 5 ATI Displays Control Panel 7 3D Memory Monitor 9 Using the 3D Memory Monitor 9 Display 10 Textures 10 Buffers 10 DVD...10 ATI Displays Preferences 11 ATI HELP 11 Using QuickTime Playback 12 Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI-I 13 Video Mode Table 15 Supported 2D Modes 15 Digital Flat Panel 16 Specifications 17 System Requirements 17 Operating System 17 Glossary 19 Index 22 iii
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You can browse through the Apple Help Center. Help is available in both Mac OS X and OS 9 by simply clicking on the installation disk to open this file. Click the README icon on the button in the ATI Displays control panel or through the Help or search for a specific topic. 3 Related Documentation The README file summarizes the latest product revisions.
You can browse through the Apple Help Center. Help is available in both Mac OS X and OS 9 by simply clicking on the installation disk to open this file. Click the README icon on the button in the ATI Displays control panel or through the Help or search for a specific topic. 3 Related Documentation The README file summarizes the latest product revisions.
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..., so 3D acceleration is not supported. You can use 256 colors, there are too few colors to see how memory on your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION is a transform and lighting technology which controls changing shapes and lighting while maintaining fast 3D game performance. PIXEL ...six independent texture units per rendering pipeline giving highly realistic and detailed 3D graphics. This allows you use the 3D Memory Monitor in the ATI Displays control panel, in thousands and millions of information sent to optimize 3D performance. 6 When you to the frame buffer. HYPER Z...
..., so 3D acceleration is not supported. You can use 256 colors, there are too few colors to see how memory on your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION is a transform and lighting technology which controls changing shapes and lighting while maintaining fast 3D game performance. PIXEL ...six independent texture units per rendering pipeline giving highly realistic and detailed 3D graphics. This allows you use the 3D Memory Monitor in the ATI Displays control panel, in thousands and millions of information sent to optimize 3D performance. 6 When you to the frame buffer. HYPER Z...
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...Click Applications folder. 3 Click Utilities folder. 4 Click ATI Utilities folder. 5 Double-click ATI Displays. For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features, please refer to offer. To open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS 9: 1 Click Apple... Menu. 2 Click Control Panels. 3 Click ATI Displays. ATI Displays Control Panel The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features that RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel. ATI...
...Click Applications folder. 3 Click Utilities folder. 4 Click ATI Utilities folder. 5 Double-click ATI Displays. For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features, please refer to offer. To open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS 9: 1 Click Apple... Menu. 2 Click Control Panels. 3 Click ATI Displays. ATI Displays Control Panel The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features that RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel. ATI...
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Even if the ATI Displays cannot identify your computer. A warning dialog will still provide display configuration, driver version and other related information. The Display Info dialog presents the current settings of your computer. The Support dialog provides an internet link to the ATI Technologies' website. 8 The Profile dialog presents information on the specific RADEON graphics card and video driver installed in your ATI product it will display if no ATI product is installed in your monitor.
Even if the ATI Displays cannot identify your computer. A warning dialog will still provide display configuration, driver version and other related information. The Display Info dialog presents the current settings of your computer. The Support dialog provides an internet link to the ATI Technologies' website. 8 The Profile dialog presents information on the specific RADEON graphics card and video driver installed in your ATI product it will display if no ATI product is installed in your monitor.
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... in Mac OS 9 only, shows how available memory in the accelerator card is allocated between display, textures, and buffers. 9 To open 3D graphics on your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has allocated 3D memory. Using the 3D Memory Monitor When you how the video memory on your Mac OS computer, run... the 3D Memory Monitor to step 3. 2 Select ATI Displays. 3 Click 3D Memory icon. The 3D Memory Monitor shows you open the 3D Memory Monitor 1 Choose Control Panels from the Apple Menu, or choose...
... in Mac OS 9 only, shows how available memory in the accelerator card is allocated between display, textures, and buffers. 9 To open 3D graphics on your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has allocated 3D memory. Using the 3D Memory Monitor When you how the video memory on your Mac OS computer, run... the 3D Memory Monitor to step 3. 2 Select ATI Displays. 3 Click 3D Memory icon. The 3D Memory Monitor shows you open the 3D Memory Monitor 1 Choose Control Panels from the Apple Menu, or choose...
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Here you are using the ATI Displays control panel. To access the ATI HELP, click on the icon on the ATI Displays control panel. Select a topic from the main ATI HELP window to get detailed instructions for the ATI Displays control panel. ATI HELP ATI HELP is an additional source of information when you can set the Preferences for a specific task. 11 ATI Displays Preferences From the ATI Displays drop down menu in Mac OS X only, you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits.
Here you are using the ATI Displays control panel. To access the ATI HELP, click on the icon on the ATI Displays control panel. Select a topic from the main ATI HELP window to get detailed instructions for the ATI Displays control panel. ATI HELP ATI HELP is an additional source of information when you can set the Preferences for a specific task. 11 ATI Displays Preferences From the ATI Displays drop down menu in Mac OS X only, you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits.
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... not accelerated, nor are they converted to color. When scaling video, the RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION uses special hardware techniques (bilinear filtering) to enhance the video quality instead of colors, the ATI card utilizes the 3D engine's capabilities to scale and accelerate playback. To use... RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION's playback acceleration, you to stretch even the smallest movies to full...
... not accelerated, nor are they converted to color. When scaling video, the RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION uses special hardware techniques (bilinear filtering) to enhance the video quality instead of colors, the ATI card utilizes the 3D engine's capabilities to scale and accelerate playback. To use... RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION's playback acceleration, you to stretch even the smallest movies to full...
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... • DVI-I -to-VGA video adapter.) Video Interrupt • PCI interrupt request enabled; VGA Monitors are supported using a DVI-I connector. Bus • AGP 2X and 4X. Video Memory Address • Supports 64MB relocatable memory aperture. Video Display Buffer • 64MB memory. • 256-bit memory interface. ADC ...horizontal and vertical sync at TTL levels. • Composite sync at TTL levels. interrupt is auto-configured by system. 17 Graphics Controller • ATI RADEON 9000 PRO - Specifications System Requirements • Power Macintosh computer with an...
... • DVI-I -to-VGA video adapter.) Video Interrupt • PCI interrupt request enabled; VGA Monitors are supported using a DVI-I connector. Bus • AGP 2X and 4X. Video Memory Address • Supports 64MB relocatable memory aperture. Video Display Buffer • 64MB memory. • 256-bit memory interface. ADC ...horizontal and vertical sync at TTL levels. • Composite sync at TTL levels. interrupt is auto-configured by system. 17 Graphics Controller • ATI RADEON 9000 PRO - Specifications System Requirements • Power Macintosh computer with an...
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... looking texture. Glossary Alpha blending Anti-aliasing Back buffer Bilinear Filtering Bitmap When an image has an alpha value for back buffers are on your ATI graphics accelerator card. Method used , the edges of colors desired. 19 This blended color is ready in rows. Bilinear filtering samples four texture pixels, takes...
... looking texture. Glossary Alpha blending Anti-aliasing Back buffer Bilinear Filtering Bitmap When an image has an alpha value for back buffers are on your ATI graphics accelerator card. Method used , the edges of colors desired. 19 This blended color is ready in rows. Bilinear filtering samples four texture pixels, takes...
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... clipping and lighting at 62.5 million triangles per pixel (bpp). A memory bandwidth saving technology that they can switch your color depth using the ATI Popup Menu, Apple's Control Strip, or the Monitors control panel. The rest of offscreen memory is not taken up by the front buffer, ...display buffer". Buffers CHARISMA ENGINE™ II Color Depth Fog Frame Buffer Gouraud Shading HYPER Z™ II MIP Map Offscreen Memory Your ATI accelerator card includes on-board memory which holds the display screen that is used to preload and place images so that boosts rendering ...
... clipping and lighting at 62.5 million triangles per pixel (bpp). A memory bandwidth saving technology that they can switch your color depth using the ATI Popup Menu, Apple's Control Strip, or the Monitors control panel. The rest of offscreen memory is not taken up by the front buffer, ...display buffer". Buffers CHARISMA ENGINE™ II Color Depth Fog Frame Buffer Gouraud Shading HYPER Z™ II MIP Map Offscreen Memory Your ATI accelerator card includes on-board memory which holds the display screen that is used to preload and place images so that boosts rendering ...
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... pixel, in the z-buffer which a monitor or television can redraw the screen from a 3-D surface with the standard MIP Map samples. The depth data helps the ATI accelerator card decide what 3D objects are square; Smallest addressable area of other 3D objects. Pixels on 3D models to bottom. A 3D rendering engine which...
... pixel, in the z-buffer which a monitor or television can redraw the screen from a 3-D surface with the standard MIP Map samples. The depth data helps the ATI accelerator card decide what 3D objects are square; Smallest addressable area of other 3D objects. Pixels on 3D models to bottom. A 3D rendering engine which...
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Index Numerics 3D Graphics memory usage 9 supported features 5 3D Memory Monitor description 9 A Apple Displays using DVI adapter 17 using VGA adapter 2, 17 ATI Guide accessing 3, 7, 11 description 11 D DVI-to-VGA adapter 17 G Graphic Card features 4 requirements 2, 17 specifications 17 M Monitor Resolution 2D video mode table 15 Q QuickDraw 3D supported features 5 QuickTime requirements 2, 17 S Software 3D Memory Monitor 9 ATI Guide 11 requirements 2, 17 V Video Card features 4 requirements 2, 17 specifications 17 Page 22
Index Numerics 3D Graphics memory usage 9 supported features 5 3D Memory Monitor description 9 A Apple Displays using DVI adapter 17 using VGA adapter 2, 17 ATI Guide accessing 3, 7, 11 description 11 D DVI-to-VGA adapter 17 G Graphic Card features 4 requirements 2, 17 specifications 17 M Monitor Resolution 2D video mode table 15 Q QuickDraw 3D supported features 5 QuickTime requirements 2, 17 S Software 3D Memory Monitor 9 ATI Guide 11 requirements 2, 17 V Video Card features 4 requirements 2, 17 specifications 17 Page 22