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... the Only Display 97 Using Games and Applications 97 Connecting to HDTV 97 Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable 99 CrossFire™ FAQ 101 Using the Radeon® X1900 Series with CrossFire™ 105 CrossFire™ Overview 105 Allowable CrossFire™ System Components 105 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 105 SuperTiling 106 Scissor Mode 107 Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Mode...
... the Only Display 97 Using Games and Applications 97 Connecting to HDTV 97 Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable 99 CrossFire™ FAQ 101 Using the Radeon® X1900 Series with CrossFire™ 105 CrossFire™ Overview 105 Allowable CrossFire™ System Components 105 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 105 SuperTiling 106 Scissor Mode 107 Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Mode...
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... card. If you are planning on the requirements for installation software (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive). • Specialized PCI Express® 450 watt or greater power supply recommended. External Connectors • Dual DVI-I output. • S-Video output or Video In/Video Out (VIVO) connection. 4 Radeon® X1900 Series Features System Requirements Hardware Operating System Monitor CrossFire...
... card. If you are planning on the requirements for installation software (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive). • Specialized PCI Express® 450 watt or greater power supply recommended. External Connectors • Dual DVI-I output. • S-Video output or Video In/Video Out (VIVO) connection. 4 Radeon® X1900 Series Features System Requirements Hardware Operating System Monitor CrossFire...
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... • a motherboard with two PCI Express® X16 slots • a CrossFire™ Edition Series graphics card • The Radeon® CrossFire™ Edition can be saved once you click OK. The CrossFire™ aspect requires the following to twice the VPU performance when using 3D graphics applications...report for the current view only. Restore default settings 1 Move the mouse to drive a single display. Clicking Discard applies to ATI Technologies. Previous settings are not altered and will restore the defaults for submission to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults....
... • a motherboard with two PCI Express® X16 slots • a CrossFire™ Edition Series graphics card • The Radeon® CrossFire™ Edition can be saved once you click OK. The CrossFire™ aspect requires the following to twice the VPU performance when using 3D graphics applications...report for the current view only. Restore default settings 1 Move the mouse to drive a single display. Clicking Discard applies to ATI Technologies. Previous settings are not altered and will restore the defaults for submission to all features of the window. 2 Click Defaults....
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... bottom half. • Alternate Frame Rendering - When CrossFire™ is used . The two graphics cards work on the application. For the latest information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire 88 CrossFire™ • An interconnect cable, supplied with the CrossFire™ Series graphics card, connecting the two cards to render two halves of an image...
... bottom half. • Alternate Frame Rendering - When CrossFire™ is used . The two graphics cards work on the application. For the latest information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire 88 CrossFire™ • An interconnect cable, supplied with the CrossFire™ Series graphics card, connecting the two cards to render two halves of an image...
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... save your settings • Click Discard to the DMS-59™ connection on the Master card. Discard does not close the Catalyst™ Control Center. Refer to the motherboard's manual for CrossFire™ to the desired setting. Set Catalyst™ A.I . 4 Click and drag to ... motherboards may be correctly connected to enable dual PCIe™ slot support. For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire CrossFire™ graphics card connections In order for information to both the Master and Slave graphics cards. 1 Connect the DMS-59™ connector of...
... save your settings • Click Discard to the DMS-59™ connection on the Master card. Discard does not close the Catalyst™ Control Center. Refer to the motherboard's manual for CrossFire™ to the desired setting. Set Catalyst™ A.I . 4 Click and drag to ... motherboards may be correctly connected to enable dual PCIe™ slot support. For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire CrossFire™ graphics card connections In order for information to both the Master and Slave graphics cards. 1 Connect the DMS-59™ connector of...
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... not installed into the primary PCIe™ slot. For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire Card Reversal Recommended A recommendation message to match the memory size of the graphics card with the least amount of memory. For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at : ati.com/crossfire Graphics cards with different amounts of...
... not installed into the primary PCIe™ slot. For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire Card Reversal Recommended A recommendation message to match the memory size of the graphics card with the least amount of memory. For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at : ati.com/crossfire Graphics cards with different amounts of...
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... the CrossFire™ Web page at : ati.com/crossfire Disabling CrossFire™ When CrossFire™ is disabled you create a Profile that came with the software. • Check the graphics card are installed correctly. • Check the interconnect cable is installed correctly. • Close all running . For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire CrossFire™...
... the CrossFire™ Web page at : ati.com/crossfire Disabling CrossFire™ When CrossFire™ is disabled you create a Profile that came with the software. • Check the graphics card are installed correctly. • Check the interconnect cable is installed correctly. • Close all running . For more information see the CrossFire™ Web page at: ati.com/crossfire CrossFire™...
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...CrossFire™ Web site at: ati.com/crossfire 1 What combination of products are required: • a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card that works as the Master graphics card. • a CrossFire™ Ready graphics card from the same brand-family that both PCIe™ X16 slots are frequently-asked questions about CrossFire...X16 slot. Thus a Radeon® X1800 CrossFire™ Edition can be found within this FAQ. 2 What graphics cards work with all members of the Radeon® X1800 family. 3 What motherboards support CrossFire™? 101 CHAPTER 7: CrossFire™ FAQ The ...
...CrossFire™ Web site at: ati.com/crossfire 1 What combination of products are required: • a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card that works as the Master graphics card. • a CrossFire™ Ready graphics card from the same brand-family that both PCIe™ X16 slots are frequently-asked questions about CrossFire...X16 slot. Thus a Radeon® X1800 CrossFire™ Edition can be found within this FAQ. 2 What graphics cards work with all members of the Radeon® X1800 family. 3 What motherboards support CrossFire™? 101 CHAPTER 7: CrossFire™ FAQ The ...
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... graphics card (the Master graphics card), and a compatible Radeon® graphics card (the Slave graphics card). CHAPTER 8: CrossFire™ Overview 105 Using the Radeon® X1900 Series with any Radeon® X1900 product. For an up-to put together a working CrossFire™ system, see : ati.com/crossfire. Thus a Radeon® X1900 CrossFire™ Edition can be used as the Master graphics card with CrossFire™ The Radeon® X1900 Series...
... graphics card (the Master graphics card), and a compatible Radeon® graphics card (the Slave graphics card). CHAPTER 8: CrossFire™ Overview 105 Using the Radeon® X1900 Series with any Radeon® X1900 product. For an up-to put together a working CrossFire™ system, see : ati.com/crossfire. Thus a Radeon® X1900 CrossFire™ Edition can be used as the Master graphics card with CrossFire™ The Radeon® X1900 Series...
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...-oriented mode. 106 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes The first three are assigned to a relatively small 32x32 pixel square, so this mode, each frame to be in operation at any software overhead. 1 PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1900 Series Master Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered... method does a good job of balancing the workload across multiple GPUs. Each tile is started, without any given time. The ATI Catalyst™ display driver will automatically select the best of the three performance modes when a 3D application is kept to each ...
...-oriented mode. 106 CrossFire™ Rendering Modes The first three are assigned to a relatively small 32x32 pixel square, so this mode, each frame to be in operation at any software overhead. 1 PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card 2 Radeon® X1900 Series Master Graphics Card 3 Partial Frame Rendered... method does a good job of balancing the workload across multiple GPUs. Each tile is started, without any given time. The ATI Catalyst™ display driver will automatically select the best of the three performance modes when a 3D application is kept to each ...
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... mode is that are blended in the CrossFire Compositing engine. Rather than simply determining the color of polygon edges. This method takes samples from 2, 4, or 6 programmable locations within each . The latest generation of ATI's Radeon® GPUs with anti-aliasing enabled, ...but uses different sample locations for high-quality smoothing of each pixel on CrossFire™ systems. It works by sampling multiple locations within each pixel, and...
... mode is that are blended in the CrossFire Compositing engine. Rather than simply determining the color of polygon edges. This method takes samples from 2, 4, or 6 programmable locations within each . The latest generation of ATI's Radeon® GPUs with anti-aliasing enabled, ...but uses different sample locations for high-quality smoothing of each pixel on CrossFire™ systems. It works by sampling multiple locations within each pixel, and...
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... SSAA to provide better image quality. Two of the new Super Anti-aliasing modes use a combination of these modes work by users through the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center interface. CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 111 pattern that does a better job of anti-aliasing near-horizontal and nearvertical edges, resulting in image quality.
... SSAA to provide better image quality. Two of the new Super Anti-aliasing modes use a combination of these modes work by users through the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center interface. CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 111 pattern that does a better job of anti-aliasing near-horizontal and nearvertical edges, resulting in image quality.
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...memory size) of the CrossFire™ Edition and regular card are installed correctly. • Check the interconnect cable is not supported in CrossFire™ mode. This will restart your computer. Cannot Use ATI Overdrive ATI Overdrive is not an available feature on CrossFire™ systems. Screen ...size or continue with your graphics hardware or their is a problem with CrossFire™. Ensure that came with the reduced memory size. VIVO on Slave Card Does Not Work If a VIVO (Video In, Video Out) connection is available on a Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition...
...memory size) of the CrossFire™ Edition and regular card are installed correctly. • Check the interconnect cable is not supported in CrossFire™ mode. This will restart your computer. Cannot Use ATI Overdrive ATI Overdrive is not an available feature on CrossFire™ systems. Screen ...size or continue with your graphics hardware or their is a problem with CrossFire™. Ensure that came with the reduced memory size. VIVO on Slave Card Does Not Work If a VIVO (Video In, Video Out) connection is available on a Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition...
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... its width and height. For example, the Color aspect clusters together controls that smooths out the jagged edges of related features in ATI's Catalyst™ Control Center software. This type of using discrete pixels to display the image. Aspect Ratio The proportions of a...the jagged edges with varying shades of color. Anisotropic Filtering A technique that move or fade away into the distance by filling in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. Common ratios include 4:3 for TVs and CRTs, ...
... its width and height. For example, the Color aspect clusters together controls that smooths out the jagged edges of related features in ATI's Catalyst™ Control Center software. This type of using discrete pixels to display the image. Aspect Ratio The proportions of a...the jagged edges with varying shades of color. Anisotropic Filtering A technique that move or fade away into the distance by filling in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. Common ratios include 4:3 for TVs and CRTs, ...