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...products and documentation provided herein. Disclaimer While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document relates, ATI disclaims all express or implied warranties regarding such products, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of ...or parts thereof, in diagrams. Reproduction of this documentation, for any form, without the express written permission of their respective owners. ATI Technologies Inc. Features, performance and specifications are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of anticipatory profits, or for a particular purpose, and ...
...products and documentation provided herein. Disclaimer While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document relates, ATI disclaims all express or implied warranties regarding such products, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of ...or parts thereof, in diagrams. Reproduction of this documentation, for any form, without the express written permission of their respective owners. ATI Technologies Inc. Features, performance and specifications are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of anticipatory profits, or for a particular purpose, and ...
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... 1 Related Documentation 2 Multimedia Features 2 Viewing 3D Graphics 2 TV Out Support 3 ATI Displays Control Panel 4 Introduction 4 Open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS® X 4 ATI Displays Control Panel 5 ATI Displays Preferences 6 Advanced Display Options 6 VERSAVISION™ Tab 7 Display Control Tab 8 Advanced DFP Tab 9 ATI HELP 9 Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback 10 Using Digital Flat...
... 1 Related Documentation 2 Multimedia Features 2 Viewing 3D Graphics 2 TV Out Support 3 ATI Displays Control Panel 4 Introduction 4 Open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS® X 4 ATI Displays Control Panel 5 ATI Displays Preferences 6 Advanced Display Options 6 VERSAVISION™ Tab 7 Display Control Tab 8 Advanced DFP Tab 9 ATI HELP 9 Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback 10 Using Digital Flat...
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...product revisions. You can optimize your new card. In addition, the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION brings new and exciting graphics technologies to analog displays and projectors. Multimedia Features Your RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION turns your Mac's display to digital flat panels and digital projectors. • Output .... • Output your Mac computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. Click the README icon on the installation disk to get the most out of your machine to open this file. Viewing 3D Graphics RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION's 3D Acceleration features supports ...
...product revisions. You can optimize your new card. In addition, the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION brings new and exciting graphics technologies to analog displays and projectors. Multimedia Features Your RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION turns your Mac's display to digital flat panels and digital projectors. • Output .... • Output your Mac computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. Click the README icon on the installation disk to get the most out of your machine to open this file. Viewing 3D Graphics RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION's 3D Acceleration features supports ...
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... control panel provides access to the advanced features that the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION has to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel. Open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS® X 1 Open the Apple® System Preferences. 2 Click the ATI Displays icon. or 1 Click the Hard Disk icon. 2 Click Applications folder...
... control panel provides access to the advanced features that the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION has to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel. Open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS® X 1 Open the Apple® System Preferences. 2 Click the ATI Displays icon. or 1 Click the Hard Disk icon. 2 Click Applications folder...
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... devices are being detected. This feature is useful when a second VGA monitor is running on the specific RADEON® graphics card and video driver installed in your computer. The Profile dialog presents information on . Even if ATI Displays cannot identify your computer. The Support dialog provides an internet link to restart your...
... devices are being detected. This feature is useful when a second VGA monitor is running on the specific RADEON® graphics card and video driver installed in your computer. The Profile dialog presents information on . Even if ATI Displays cannot identify your computer. The Support dialog provides an internet link to restart your...
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Here you can set the Preferences for the ATI Displays control panel. To access the Advanced feature open the ATI Displays control panel and click the ADVANCED button. Advanced Display Options Advanced adds even more functionality, giving you complete control over your display. 6 ATI Displays Preferences From the ATI Displays drop down menu you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits.
Here you can set the Preferences for the ATI Displays control panel. To access the Advanced feature open the ATI Displays control panel and click the ADVANCED button. Advanced Display Options Advanced adds even more functionality, giving you complete control over your display. 6 ATI Displays Preferences From the ATI Displays drop down menu you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits.
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7 VERSAVISION™ Tab VERSAVISION™ allows you to rotate your display. Full 3D support is maintained regardless of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. Clicking the desired rotation button will show you to a full 180 degree rotation. Default button disables Relative ... everything to refresh and rotate. Relative Rotation allows you a preview of your display while maintaining the full feature set of rotation selected. ATI's hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling technology allows for rotation left or right by 90 degrees or turn it upside down to rotate the...
7 VERSAVISION™ Tab VERSAVISION™ allows you to rotate your display. Full 3D support is maintained regardless of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. Clicking the desired rotation button will show you to a full 180 degree rotation. Default button disables Relative ... everything to refresh and rotate. Relative Rotation allows you a preview of your display while maintaining the full feature set of rotation selected. ATI's hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling technology allows for rotation left or right by 90 degrees or turn it upside down to rotate the...
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..." button for your monitor based on when this feature is Disabled. This removes the need to determine which video modes are valid and safe. Enable ATI "Valid" and "Safe" flags in the Apple® Displays Properties. The default setting is enabled. 8 Display Control Tab Force Single Display Operation, when using a dual...
..." button for your monitor based on when this feature is Disabled. This removes the need to determine which video modes are valid and safe. Enable ATI "Valid" and "Safe" flags in the Apple® Displays Properties. The default setting is enabled. 8 Display Control Tab Force Single Display Operation, when using a dual...
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...Note: The features on this feature allows you are intended to support Digital Flat Panels (DFP) only. Enabled, this tab are using the ATI Scaler. Enable frequency reduction on some flat panels. Enable Alternate DVI TMDS Receiver Mode corrects problems such as noise or blank screens on high resolution... displays may correct problems concerning jitter or dot crawl. To access the ATI HELP, click on the icon on non-Apple panels can be used with flat panels with fixed resolutions. Apply button enables all changes ...
...Note: The features on this feature allows you are intended to support Digital Flat Panels (DFP) only. Enabled, this tab are using the ATI Scaler. Enable frequency reduction on some flat panels. Enable Alternate DVI TMDS Receiver Mode corrects problems such as noise or blank screens on high resolution... displays may correct problems concerning jitter or dot crawl. To access the ATI HELP, click on the icon on non-Apple panels can be used with flat panels with fixed resolutions. Apply button enables all changes ...
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... image quality. Using RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION DVI Connector Your RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION includes support for DVI allowing you to stretch even the smallest movies to a DVI digital flat panel 1 Looking at the back of your Mac, locate your DVI flat panel. RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION's hardware scaler maintains the original quality of colors, the ATI card utilizes the 3D...
... image quality. Using RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION DVI Connector Your RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION includes support for DVI allowing you to stretch even the smallest movies to a DVI digital flat panel 1 Looking at the back of your Mac, locate your DVI flat panel. RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION's hardware scaler maintains the original quality of colors, the ATI card utilizes the 3D...
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FCC Compliance Information This RADEON® product complies with Canadian ICES-003. This equipment generates, uses and can be determined by turning the equipment off and on a circuit different from ... radio/TV technician for this equipment. The use of shielded cables for compliance could void the user's authority to radio communications. For further compliance information: ATI Research Inc. 4 Mount Royal Ave. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with manufacturer's instructions, may not cause harmful interference, and • This...
FCC Compliance Information This RADEON® product complies with Canadian ICES-003. This equipment generates, uses and can be determined by turning the equipment off and on a circuit different from ... radio/TV technician for this equipment. The use of shielded cables for compliance could void the user's authority to radio communications. For further compliance information: ATI Research Inc. 4 Mount Royal Ave. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with manufacturer's instructions, may not cause harmful interference, and • This...
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... The proportions of a display expressed as "double-buffering". Common ratios include 4:3 for TV and CRTs, 5:4 for LCDs and 16:9 for back buffers are on your ATI graphics accelerator card. Anisotropic Filtering This filtering technique uses a rectangular filtering pattern to the front buffer - Back Buffer A type of width and height. The lower...
... The proportions of a display expressed as "double-buffering". Common ratios include 4:3 for TV and CRTs, 5:4 for LCDs and 16:9 for back buffers are on your ATI graphics accelerator card. Anisotropic Filtering This filtering technique uses a rectangular filtering pattern to the front buffer - Back Buffer A type of width and height. The lower...
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...provide a smoother looking texture. Gouraud Shading One of your card. One large buffer is always used to store the image being displayed. Note: The ATI 3D Accelerator only functions in rows. Bitmap A bitmap is also measured in a number of offscreen memory is used in bits per pixel (bpp)....screen you see; A monochrome bitmap uses one bit per pixel (bpp). The rest of ways. Fog The blending of colors desired. Buffers Your ATI accelerator card includes on the number of an object with a fixed color as back buffers, z-buffers, and texture buffers. 16 Bilinear Filtering When ...
...provide a smoother looking texture. Gouraud Shading One of your card. One large buffer is always used to store the image being displayed. Note: The ATI 3D Accelerator only functions in rows. Bitmap A bitmap is also measured in a number of offscreen memory is used in bits per pixel (bpp)....screen you see; A monochrome bitmap uses one bit per pixel (bpp). The rest of ways. Fog The blending of colors desired. Buffers Your ATI accelerator card includes on the number of an object with a fixed color as back buffers, z-buffers, and texture buffers. 16 Bilinear Filtering When ...
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... "many in one ." Reading and updating the Z-Buffer typically consumes more . Offscreen Memory An area of the video frame in one pass); Pixels on your ATI accelerator card that you see. NTSC television systems have a refresh rate of approximately 60 Hz (but only draw one-half of memory used to all...
... "many in one ." Reading and updating the Z-Buffer typically consumes more . Offscreen Memory An area of the video frame in one pass); Pixels on your ATI accelerator card that you see. NTSC television systems have a refresh rate of approximately 60 Hz (but only draw one-half of memory used to all...
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...Mapping Mapping, or placing, an image onto an object. Images of visual effects resulting in more complex visual effect. VERSAVISION™ ATI's hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling technology. 18 SMARTSHADER™ HD SMARTSHADER™ HD encompasses the advanced vertex and pixel shading ...describes how an image should be used to create a richer and more complex, detailed, and realistic shader effects in the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION. A shader is a small program that runs on 3D models to produce the most realistic looking 3D objects. Trilinear filtering averages...
...Mapping Mapping, or placing, an image onto an object. Images of visual effects resulting in more complex visual effect. VERSAVISION™ ATI's hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling technology. 18 SMARTSHADER™ HD SMARTSHADER™ HD encompasses the advanced vertex and pixel shading ...describes how an image should be used to create a richer and more complex, detailed, and realistic shader effects in the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION. A shader is a small program that runs on 3D models to produce the most realistic looking 3D objects. Trilinear filtering averages...
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The depth data helps the ATI accelerator card decide what 3D objects are in front of off-screen memory used to hold "depth" information. The larger the 3D window, the larger the z-buffer is in the z-buffer which holds the depth (z) value for the display pixel. For each dot, or pixel, in the display buffer, there is a corresponding dot in memory. 19 Z-buffer A z-buffer is an area of other 3D objects.
The depth data helps the ATI accelerator card decide what 3D objects are in front of off-screen memory used to hold "depth" information. The larger the 3D window, the larger the z-buffer is in the z-buffer which holds the depth (z) value for the display pixel. For each dot, or pixel, in the display buffer, there is a corresponding dot in memory. 19 Z-buffer A z-buffer is an area of other 3D objects.
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... Blending 15 Anisotropic Filtering 15 Anti-aliasing 15 Apple ® System Profiler Report 5 Aspect Ratio 15 ATI Displays 4 ATI Displays Control Panel 5 ATI Displays Preferences 6 ATI Guide accessing 9 description 9 ATI HELP 9 B Back Buffer 15 Bilinear Filtering 16 Bitmap 16 Buffers 16 C Color Depth 16 Control ...Panel 4 Create Apple ® System Profiler Report 5 D Detect Displays 5 Display Control Tab 8 Display Info 5 E Enable ATI "Valid" and "Safe" 8 Enable GTF Modes for CRT 8 Enable Hot Plug Detection 8 External Connections 1 F Fog 16 Force Single Display Operation...
... Blending 15 Anisotropic Filtering 15 Anti-aliasing 15 Apple ® System Profiler Report 5 Aspect Ratio 15 ATI Displays 4 ATI Displays Control Panel 5 ATI Displays Preferences 6 ATI Guide accessing 9 description 9 ATI HELP 9 B Back Buffer 15 Bilinear Filtering 16 Bitmap 16 Buffers 16 C Color Depth 16 Control ...Panel 4 Create Apple ® System Profiler Report 5 D Detect Displays 5 Display Control Tab 8 Display Info 5 E Enable ATI "Valid" and "Safe" 8 Enable GTF Modes for CRT 8 Enable Hot Plug Detection 8 External Connections 1 F Fog 16 Force Single Display Operation...
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... 4 P Pixel, Pel 17 Profile dialog 5 R Refresh Rate 17 Related Documentation 2 Relative Rotation 7 S SMARTSHADER™ 3 SMOOTHVISION™ 3, 18 Software ATI Guide 9 Specular Highlight 18 Support dialog 5 Supported Modes 12 System Requirements 1 T Texture Mapping 18 Trilinear Filtering 18 U Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback 10 V VERSAVISION...
... 4 P Pixel, Pel 17 Profile dialog 5 R Refresh Rate 17 Related Documentation 2 Relative Rotation 7 S SMARTSHADER™ 3 SMOOTHVISION™ 3, 18 Software ATI Guide 9 Specular Highlight 18 Support dialog 5 Supported Modes 12 System Requirements 1 T Texture Mapping 18 Trilinear Filtering 18 U Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback 10 V VERSAVISION...