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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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... up to the user. • Conserves video memory bandwidth. SmoothVision™ • Full-scene anti-aliasing method 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 GDDR3 on the...
... up to the user. • Conserves video memory bandwidth. SmoothVision™ • Full-scene anti-aliasing method 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 GDDR3 on the...
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... • Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering. • Optimized for normal maps and luminance maps. • Works with video in OpenGL® 2.0. De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion. 512-bit Ring Bus Memory Controller • Programmable intelligent arbitration logic. ...8226; Complete feature set also supported in real time. • All format DTV/HDTV decoding. • Adaptive Per-Pixel- 2 Radeon® X1300 Series Features • Loss-less Z-buffer compression • Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering. VideoShader™ • Seamlessly ...
... • Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering. • Optimized for normal maps and luminance maps. • Works with video in OpenGL® 2.0. De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion. 512-bit Ring Bus Memory Controller • Programmable intelligent arbitration logic. ...8226; Complete feature set also supported in real time. • All format DTV/HDTV decoding. • Adaptive Per-Pixel- 2 Radeon® X1300 Series Features • Loss-less Z-buffer compression • Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering. VideoShader™ • Seamlessly ...
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... and game compatibility using multiple graphics processors in conjunction with a graphics cards of the same brand-family to complete a CrossFire™ capable system. Note: Not all Radeon® X1300 Series graphics cards. For more information see ati.com/crossfire Radeon® X1300 Series Features 3 High Dynamic Range (HDR) Rendering • 64-bit floating... features apply to 128-tap texture filtering. • Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options. CrossFire™ Ready Your Radeon® X1300 Series is CrossFire™ Ready and can be used in a single system.
... and game compatibility using multiple graphics processors in conjunction with a graphics cards of the same brand-family to complete a CrossFire™ capable system. Note: Not all Radeon® X1300 Series graphics cards. For more information see ati.com/crossfire Radeon® X1300 Series Features 3 High Dynamic Range (HDR) Rendering • 64-bit floating... features apply to 128-tap texture filtering. • Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options. CrossFire™ Ready Your Radeon® X1300 Series is CrossFire™ Ready and can be used in a single system.
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...your new Radeon® X1300 Series card, you remove your current display drivers. 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 system and remove the old graphics card. Note... any additional software installed, it from your computer. The wizard will help you must uninstall the drivers for the existing graphics card before installing your new ATI product. Y 102 part number (P/N) Before You Begin 5 Write the numbers, shown in your computer: 1 Close all applications ...
...your new Radeon® X1300 Series card, you remove your current display drivers. 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 system and remove the old graphics card. Note... any additional software installed, it from your computer. The wizard will help you must uninstall the drivers for the existing graphics card before installing your new ATI product. Y 102 part number (P/N) Before You Begin 5 Write the numbers, shown in your computer: 1 Close all applications ...
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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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... monitors 1 Power off your monitor cable into their appropriate connectors. 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 VGA monitor to the DVI-I connector, plug the supplied DVI-I-to -VGA Adapter (optional...
... monitors 1 Power off your monitor cable into their appropriate connectors. 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 VGA monitor to the DVI-I connector, plug the supplied DVI-I-to -VGA Adapter (optional...
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.... Note: When you can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Note: ATI provides Catalyst® Control Center software that Windows® can connect displays to load the drivers for further information on your monitors...
.... Note: When you can detect the new hardware settings. 4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Note: ATI provides Catalyst® Control Center software that Windows® can connect displays to load the drivers for further information on your monitors...
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... with your monitor cable is not supported. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to restart your operating system. This procedure applies to install the Radeon® X1300 Series drivers and software in the following cases: • After you have installed the card in your system. • After you have reinstalled or...
... with your monitor cable is not supported. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to restart your operating system. This procedure applies to install the Radeon® X1300 Series drivers and software in the following cases: • After you have installed the card in your system. • After you have reinstalled or...
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... using the ATISETUP utility located on using ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. The ATISETUP utility will start automatically if you use multiple monitors with your Radeon® X1300 Series card, one monitor will be Primary. Click the...
... using the ATISETUP utility located on using ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started. The ATISETUP utility will start automatically if you use multiple monitors with your Radeon® X1300 Series card, one monitor will be Primary. Click the...
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... close the Catalyst® Control Center. Note: Clicking Defaults will be saved once you click OK. Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Use the Avivo™ Video aspect to configure gamma, brightness, and hue. Previous settings are not altered and will restore the defaults for the ...and leave the Catalyst® Control Center open. 2 Click OK to set aspect ratio and overlay display mode. 78 Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Apply your settings 1 Click Apply to save your changes and exit the Catalyst® Control Center. Restore default settings 1 Move ...
... close the Catalyst® Control Center. Note: Clicking Defaults will be saved once you click OK. Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Use the Avivo™ Video aspect to configure gamma, brightness, and hue. Previous settings are not altered and will restore the defaults for the ...and leave the Catalyst® Control Center open. 2 Click OK to set aspect ratio and overlay display mode. 78 Avivo™ Video for Radeon® X1000 Series Apply your settings 1 Click Apply to save your changes and exit the Catalyst® Control Center. Restore default settings 1 Move ...
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...TV display. CHAPTER 6: Using TV Out 93 Using TV Display and Capture Features This chapter describes how to use an S-Video cable. Using TV Out Your Radeon® X1300 Series has TV Out capability. TV display is set to a TV and a monitor at the same time. Viewing Your PC...), turn off your computer and your TV. 2 Determine if your Radeon® X1300 Series to 50 Hz. Connecting to a TV To connect your Radeon® X1300 Series card to a TV, use the TV display and video capture features of your Radeon® X1300 Series card. When you get the most out of your TV Out feature....
...TV display. CHAPTER 6: Using TV Out 93 Using TV Display and Capture Features This chapter describes how to use an S-Video cable. Using TV Out Your Radeon® X1300 Series has TV Out capability. TV display is set to a TV and a monitor at the same time. Viewing Your PC...), turn off your computer and your TV. 2 Determine if your Radeon® X1300 Series to 50 Hz. Connecting to a TV To connect your Radeon® X1300 Series card to a TV, use the TV display and video capture features of your Radeon® X1300 Series card. When you get the most out of your TV Out feature....
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... 1024 x 768. The large dot pitch of a TV will not be affected). Using Games and Applications Some older games and applications may program your Radeon® X1300 Series directly to HDTV 95 Some single-frequency monitors may cause your TV display to HDTV View computer output directly on your computer that you are...
... 1024 x 768. The large dot pitch of a TV will not be affected). Using Games and Applications Some older games and applications may program your Radeon® X1300 Series directly to HDTV 95 Some single-frequency monitors may cause your TV display to HDTV View computer output directly on your computer that you are...
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... graphics to be disabled or to become the secondary display.) • Make sure that Video Card Isn't Properly Configured Warning! Refer to your monitor's documentation for recommended resolutions and refresh rates...applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the graphics card. • Check the driver ... Digital Flat Panel (DFP) monitor users: refer to your monitor's documentation for your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Off-Center Screen Image, Odd Colors or No Picture Operating System Warns that you selected...
... graphics to be disabled or to become the secondary display.) • Make sure that Video Card Isn't Properly Configured Warning! Refer to your monitor's documentation for recommended resolutions and refresh rates...applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the graphics card. • Check the driver ... Digital Flat Panel (DFP) monitor users: refer to your monitor's documentation for your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Off-Center Screen Image, Odd Colors or No Picture Operating System Warns that you selected...