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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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... your monitors first, and then restart your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Note: 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 load the drivers for your computer so that provides many additional...
... your monitors first, and then restart your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Note: 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 load the drivers for your computer so that provides many additional...
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Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. Make sure your system. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 1 Start your ... appears, click Cancel. CHAPTER 4: Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® 21 Installing Software and Drivers This chapter will need to install the Radeon® X1300 Series drivers and software in the following cases: • After you have installed the card in your system. • After you...
Software Installation Prerequisites To install or remove the drivers, you must be logged on as a user with your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card. Make sure your system. To install ATI drivers and software Note: Optical drive refers to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 1 Start your ... appears, click Cancel. CHAPTER 4: Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® 21 Installing Software and Drivers This chapter will need to install the Radeon® X1300 Series drivers and software in the following cases: • After you have installed the card in your system. • After you...
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...system has started. Reinstall the drivers at any time using ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows® conflict. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your Windows® online help and ...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 be Primary. The ATISETUP utility will start automatically if you use multiple monitors with your monitor's performance....
...system has started. Reinstall the drivers at any time using ATI's Catalyst® Control Center. Note: You can install new drivers or reinstall existing drivers if there was a Windows® conflict. Note: When you insert the ATI Installation CD-ROM into your Windows® online help and ...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 be Primary. The ATISETUP utility will start automatically if you use multiple monitors with your monitor's performance....
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...steps. 1 In the Windows® task bar, click Start. 2 From the Start menu, select Run. 3 Browse to SETUP.EXE on -screen instructions, then choose either Express or Custom Install. The Catalyst® Software Suite has several distinct software elements, including: • Driver • Catalyst® ...174; Software Suite ATI's Catalyst® Software Suite provides software required to begin the Installation Wizard. 8 Follow the Wizard's on the root directory of your CD-ROM auto-run is not your optical drive. 24 Installing the Catalyst® Software Suite If your ATI graphics card.
...steps. 1 In the Windows® task bar, click Start. 2 From the Start menu, select Run. 3 Browse to SETUP.EXE on -screen instructions, then choose either Express or Custom Install. The Catalyst® Software Suite has several distinct software elements, including: • Driver • Catalyst® ...174; Software Suite ATI's Catalyst® Software Suite provides software required to begin the Installation Wizard. 8 Follow the Wizard's on the root directory of your CD-ROM auto-run is not your optical drive. 24 Installing the Catalyst® Software Suite If your ATI graphics card.
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... 3, the Half Life 2 engine, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Splinter Cell, Race Driver, Prince of Persia, and Crazy Taxi 3. settings 1 From the Tree View pane, expand 3D. to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults. makes use of ATI's new texture analyzer technology to the bottom right-hand corner of an aspect...
... 3, the Half Life 2 engine, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Splinter Cell, Race Driver, Prince of Persia, and Crazy Taxi 3. settings 1 From the Tree View pane, expand 3D. to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults. makes use of ATI's new texture analyzer technology to the bottom right-hand corner of an aspect...
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...8226; Auto Detect lets the multimedia driver to select the best deinterlacing scheme for different video sources and sizes. • Bob deinterlacing, when selected, removes every other line of the video image and is recommended for motion video. • Adaptive deinterlacing, when ...selected, reacts to the amount of motion in the current view. Apply your settings 1 Click Apply to save your changes and leave the Catalyst® Control Center open. 2 Click OK to save your settings • Click Discard to the bottom right-hand corner of the window...
...8226; Auto Detect lets the multimedia driver to select the best deinterlacing scheme for different video sources and sizes. • Bob deinterlacing, when selected, removes every other line of the video image and is recommended for motion video. • Adaptive deinterlacing, when ...selected, reacts to the amount of motion in the current view. Apply your settings 1 Click Apply to save your changes and leave the Catalyst® Control Center open. 2 Click OK to save your settings • Click Discard to the bottom right-hand corner of the window...
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...Discard to ignore any work in the current view. Clicking Discard applies to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults. When this happens, the display driver attempts to display-driver instructions. Should the computer be unable to recover from a crash, VPU Recover will restore the ...processor without requiring a system restart. Discard does not close the Catalyst® Control Center. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to reset the graphics hardware. 88 VPU Recover Restore default settings 1 Move ...
...Discard to ignore any work in the current view. Clicking Discard applies to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults. When this happens, the display driver attempts to display-driver instructions. Should the computer be unable to recover from a crash, VPU Recover will restore the ...processor without requiring a system restart. Discard does not close the Catalyst® Control Center. VPU Recover VPU Recover enables the ATI display driver to detect when the graphics processor stops responding to reset the graphics hardware. 88 VPU Recover Restore default settings 1 Move ...