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RADEON

 9000 PRO MAC 

EDITION
User’s Guide

P/N: 137-40360-00

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Summary of Contents for 9550 - X Radeon 256MB Agp

Page 1: ...of ATI Technologies Inc All other company and or product names are trademarks and or registered trademarks of their respective owners Features performance and specifications are subject to change wit...

Page 2: ...profits or for punitive incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing performance or use of the ATI hardware software or other products and documentation provided herein ATI Te...

Page 3: ...anel 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...

Page 4: ...iple combinations of CRT and Digital Flat Panel monitors Your new graphics accelerator provides Flexible dual display support enabling many combinations utilizing the ADC Apple Display Connector VGA u...

Page 5: ...re NOT supported or higher Minimum 64MB of system memory required for Mac OS 9 2 1 Minimum 128MB of system memory required for Mac OS X version 10 x OpenGL 1 2 2 or higher is required to obtain full 3...

Page 6: ...ons Click the README icon on the installation disk to open this file Help is available in both Mac OS X and OS 9 by simply clicking on the button in the ATI Displays control panel or through the Apple...

Page 7: ...do the following Enjoy true color 32 bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2048x1536 Watch full screen full motion TV quality video using QuickTime playback acceleration Output your Mac s display to digital fl...

Page 8: ...uring and Cubic environment mapping In addition the RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION brings new and exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh platform SMOOTHVISION is an anti aliasing solution that r...

Page 9: ...ealistic and detailed 3D graphics VIDEO IMMERSION II incorporates MPEG 2 decoding adaptive de interlacing and frame rate conversion RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION only displays 3D graphics in thousands a...

Page 10: ...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 ATI Help which can be access...

Page 11: ...d and video driver installed in your computer Even if the ATI Displays cannot identify your ATI product it will still provide display configuration driver version and other related information A warni...

Page 12: ...computer run the 3D Memory Monitor to see how your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has allocated 3D memory To open the 3D Memory Monitor 1 Choose Control Panels from the Apple Menu or choose ATI Displays...

Page 13: ...ions to add realism to 3D models and environments The Bitmap bar indicates the memory allocated to non 3D elements like 2D graphics To reduce the memory allocated to Texture memory reduce the amount o...

Page 14: ...e you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits ATI HELP ATI HELP is an additional source of information when you are using the ATI Displays control panel To access the ATI HEL...

Page 15: ...e monitor is set to display in grayscale Mac OS 9 only QuickTime movies are not accelerated nor are they converted to color When playing movies in thousands or millions of colors the ATI card utilizes...

Page 16: ...ur RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION includes support for DVI I You can use this feature to connect your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION to a digital flat panel display To output your computer s display to a DV...

Page 17: ...I I flat panel and your Mac The DVI I connector is hot swappable You no longer need to shut down your computer before attaching a digital flat panel ADC Connector DVI I monitor port ADC monitor port D...

Page 18: ...e available with your display Supported 2D Modes The minimum refresh rate for the above modes is 60Hz Display Resolution Maximum Refresh Hz 640 x 480 200 720 x 480 200 800 x 600 200 832 x 624 75 1024...

Page 19: ...an be lower than the maximum 165MHz capability For more information please refer to the specifications of your Digital Flat Panel display The RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has been used successfully wit...

Page 20: ...graphics and multimedia accelerator chip Video Display Buffer 64MB memory 256 bit memory interface Bus AGP 2X and 4X Sync Signals Separate horizontal and vertical sync at TTL levels Composite sync at...

Page 21: ...mperature 50 to 122 F 10 to 50 C operation 32 to 162 F 0 to 70 C storage Relative Humidity 5 to 90 non condensing operation 0 to 95 storage MTBF 120 000 hours EMC Certification FCC Class B Safety PCB...

Page 22: ...e a new frame is ready in the back buffer it is copied to the front buffer the display screen In this way you will only see complete smooth frames and not the operations performed on them In order to...

Page 23: ...Note The ATI 3D Accelerator only functions in Thousands and Millions of colors modes Fog The blending of an object with a fixed color as objects or pixels increase distance away from the viewer Frame...

Page 24: ...mance SMOOTHVISION II Full Screen Anti Aliasing technology designed to minimize jagged edges resulting in smooth images Specular Highlight The bright usually small intense light reflected from a 3 D s...

Page 25: ...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 featur...

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