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RADEON

 7000 MAC

®

 EDITION

User’s Guide

P/N: 137-40298-20

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Summary of Contents for RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION

Page 1: ...f 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 witho...

Page 2: ...ry 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...

Page 3: ...rs OpenGL and QuickDraw 3D accelerator providing superior 3D rendering performance and advanced imaging and filtering techniques QuickTime playback accelerator for full screen full motion TV quality v...

Page 4: ...OS 9 Minimum 128MB of system memory required for Mac OS X OpenGL 1 2 2 or higher is required to obtain full 3D graphics functionality in Mac OS 9 applications OpenGL 1 2 2 is only available from Apple...

Page 5: ...elp for making the best use of your card s features There are two methods of accessing the ATI Guide From the Mac OS menu bar under the ATI icon choose ATI Guide From the ATI Displays control panel yo...

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Page 7: ...njoy 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 a digital flat panel Output y...

Page 8: ...nvironment mapping These features make it possible to quickly render 3D graphics produce atmospheric effects calculate light and color shading and determine which objects are in the foreground and whi...

Page 9: ...bar For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features please refer to the ATI Guide ATI Help which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel Status Area Look in the Statu...

Page 10: ...card icon is displayed in the ATI Displays control panel You cannot make any changes to the generic video card using ATI Displays Display Details The Details window gives you information about specif...

Page 11: ...without exiting your current application You can configure enable or disable shortcut features when you click the Shortcut icon in the control panel The ATI Popup Menu only displays the recommended m...

Page 12: ...ou can use it to select your monitor from a list of standard monitors If the VGA icon is dimmed your computer has detected an Apple type monitor or a DDC compliant VGA monitor connected to your RADEON...

Page 13: ...EDITION has allocated 3D memory To open the 3D Memory Monitor Choose Control Panels from the Apple Menu or choose ATI Displays from the ATI Config Menu and skip to step 3 Select ATI Displays Click on...

Page 14: ...indicates the number and size of texture maps loaded by 3D applications to add realism to 3D models and environments The Bitmap bar indicates the memory allocated to non 3D elements like 2D graphics T...

Page 15: ...task To return to the main ATI HELP window click the HOME icon in the upper left corner of the HELP window Customer Service You can obtain Customer Service information by clicking the ATI icon in the...

Page 16: ...kTime movies are not accelerated nor are they converted to color When playing movies in thousands of colors the ATI card utilizes the 3D engine s capabilities to scale and accelerate playback When you...

Page 17: ...pression Connect using Composite or S Video output capabilities RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION provides a big screen experience for playing games giving presentations and browsing the Internet Using RADEON 7...

Page 18: ...connector of your TV If you are using Composite connect the supplied Video Out Adapter to the S Video connector of the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION Then attach one end of your Composite cable to the Compo...

Page 19: ...S Video or Composite video input connection If you are using S Video attach one end of an S Video cable to the S Video Out connector of the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION and the other to the S Video In con...

Page 20: ...your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION to a VCR you need to enable Mac2TV Enabling Mac2TV Open the ATI Displays control panel The Video Output will already be set to On In the Video Output box click Video Outpu...

Page 21: ...using the video out preferences Viewing images on your TV can be improved by changing the contrast brightness or size of your display To set the video out preferences click the Mac2TV icon on the ATI...

Page 22: ...g pictures or stills S Video equipment does not exhibit this effect Contrast is a ratio of how far the whitest whites are from the blackest blacks If the contrast is too high the image may look stark...

Page 23: ...n Mac OS 9 Click the Apple menu Select Control Panels Select Views Choose a larger font size To change your font size in Mac OS X Click the Apple menu Select System Preferences Select General Choose a...

Page 24: ...ructions on how to set up and use these features please refer to ATI Help which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel The Display Info dialog presents the current settings of your mon...

Page 25: ...LP is an additional source of information when you are using the ATI Displays control panel To access the ATI HELP click on the icon on the ATI Displays control panel Select a topic from the main ATI...

Page 26: ...n the TV button In the Video Output box click Video Output On A TV cannot be left connected to the graphics card if two analog monitors are connected to the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION even if the TV is o...

Page 27: ...includes support for DVI I You can use this feature to connect your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION to a digital flat panel display To output your computer s display to a DVI I digital flat panel Turn off yo...

Page 28: ...ector on your DVI I flat panel Turn on your Mac and your DVI I flat panel The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION does not support a TV connection when a VGA monitor is connected to the DVI I connector via the DV...

Page 29: ...lutions for Apple Fixed Frequency Display Supported VESA VGA 2D Modes Display Resolution Vertical Refresh Hz Horizontal Refresh kHz Fixed Mac OS Monitor Size 512 x 384 60 24 48 12 in 640 x 480 67 35 0...

Page 30: ...98 76 1152 x 870 75 68 68 1280 x 960 75 75 00 1280 x 1024 60 63 98 75 79 98 85 91 38 1600 x 1024 76 81 32 1600 x 1200 60 75 00 65 81 25 70 87 50 75 93 75 85 106 25 1792 x 1344 60 83 64 75 106 27 1856...

Page 31: ...3D acceleration is not supported when the color depth is set to 256 colors In this color depth there are too few colors to display complex 3D textures NOTE Full screen 3D windows possible Resolution C...

Page 32: ...Resolutions Digital Flat Panel Maximum resolution and refresh rate Maximum digital transmission frequency of the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION is a function of the receiver type in the attached flat panel...

Page 33: ...Graphics Controller ATI RADEON 7000 graphics and multimedia accelerator chip Video Display Buffer 32MB memory 256 bit memory interface Bus PCI 32 bit PCI local bus compliant with PCI version 2 1 speci...

Page 34: ...included Video Interrupt PCI interrupt request enabled interrupt is auto configured by system Power 5V 1 3A typical Environment Ambient Temperature 50 to 122 F 10 to 50 C operation 32 to 162 F 0 to 70...

Page 35: ...the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receive...

Page 36: ...Immunity Standard for Residential Commercial and Light Industrial Products EN 61000 4 2 EN 61000 4 4 EN 61000 4 6 Directive EMC 89 336 CEE et amendement 92 31 CEE dispositif num rique de Classe B EN...

Page 37: ...t ein Erzeugnis der Klasse B Dieses Erzeugnis kann Funkst rungen im Wohnbereich verursachen in diesem Fall k nnen entsprechende Ma nahmen seitens des Benutzers erforderlich sein EN 50082 1 Allgemeiner...

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Page 39: ...med on them In order to increase performance all memory used for back buffers are on your ATI graphic accelerator card Bilinear Filtering When texture mapping is performed an image can become very blo...

Page 40: ...It is a method of increasing quality of a texture map by storing multiple resolutions of the same image and dynamically switching between them depending on the size and depth of the object being text...

Page 41: ...averages one of the bilinear filter MIP Map levels along with the standard MIP Map samples z buffer A z buffer is an area of off screen memory used to hold depth information For each dot or pixel in...

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