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24  ATI Options Tab

ATI Options Tab

The ATI Options tab provides detailed driver information and access to 
your graphics card’s version information and specifications. You can also 
enable or disable the ATI taskbar icon from this dialog.

The Options Tab

ATI Options Tab

WMV 
Acceleration

When enabled, improves the performance of .WMV format 
video files.

Reactivate all 
warning 
messages

Reactivates any disabled graphics warning messages.

Summary of Contents for V7200 - Firegl 256 Mb Pcie

Page 1: ...FireGL V7200 User s Guide P N 137 50062 10 ...

Page 2: ...f ATI concerning such products or this documentation for any interruption of service loss or interruption of business loss of anticipatory 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 Technologies Inc reserves the right to make changes without fur...

Page 3: ... having a third grounding pin This plug will only fit into a grounding type power outlet This is a safety feature If you are unable to insert the plug into the outlet contact your electrician to replace the obsolete outlet Do not defeat the safety purpose of the grounding type plug Secure Attachment All card securement pins shall be completely tightened as to provide continuous bonding between the...

Page 4: ...iv User s Guide ...

Page 5: ...rivers 11 HydraVision Multi monitor Management 11 Installing Drivers and Software in Windows 11 Software Installation Prerequisites 12 Monitor Configuration 13 Clone Display Mode 14 Span Display Mode 14 Reinstalling Drivers 15 Display Properties 17 ATI Displays Tab 17 Dynamic Display Reassignment 19 ATI Color Tab 19 Hotkeys 22 ATI Options Tab 24 ATI Configuration Tab 25 ATI Advanced Settings Tab 2...

Page 6: ... Service 43 Limitations 43 Additional Accessories 44 Compliance Information 44 FCC Compliance Information 44 Industry Canada Compliance Statement 45 CE Compliance Information 45 Informations de conformité de la CE 45 Electrical Safety 45 VCCI Class B ITE Compliance Information 46 MIC Certification Information 46 BSMI Certification Information 46 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Direc...

Page 7: ...a threaded architecture with fast dynamic branching and high performance parallel processing Native high bandwidth PCI Express X16 lane support 128 bit full floating point precession ATI Avivo Workstation Technology True 64 bit per pixel floating point High Dynamic Range HDR rendering support High fidelity display engine capable of producing over one trillion colors Advanced support for 8 bit 10 b...

Page 8: ...on AMD Athlon 64 K7 XP or compatible 512 MB or more for best performance Motherboard with available X16 lane PCI Express slot and correct chipset driver Optical drive for installation software CD ROM or DVD ROM drive 450 watt or greater power supply recommended Auxiliary power cable with standard six pin connector Operating System Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 or higher Windows XP Home or Pro w...

Page 9: ...raphics Card Drivers To ensure the successful installation of your new FireGL card you must uninstall the drivers for the existing graphics card before removing it from your computer To uninstall previous drivers With your current graphics card still in your computer 1 Close all applications that are currently running 2 Navigate to the Control Panel and select Add Remove Programs 3 Select your cur...

Page 10: ... quick installation 1 Uninstall the drivers and software for your old graphics card if you have not already done so Note If you are using a motherboard containing an on board graphics solution and do not intend to use it as part of a multiple monitor setup disable it 2 Shut down and disconnect your computer system 3 Remove any previously installed card 4 Install your new FireGL card 5 Reassemble a...

Page 11: ... If necessary consult your computer s manual for help in removing the cover 4 Unscrew or unfasten and remove any existing graphics card from your computer Note If your computer has an on board graphics capability you may need to disable it on the motherboard For more information see your computer documentation L WARNING Wait approximately 20 seconds after unplugging the power cord before disconnec...

Page 12: ...d plug in the computer s power cord 9 Turn on the monitor and then your computer Connecting Display Devices The following connections are available Your FireGL card can connect one or two monitors either DFP digital CRT or analog VGA It can also connect a stereographics device You will need to use an adapter to connect analog VGA devices to the DVI I connections FireGL Baseplate Connections X DVI ...

Page 13: ... a VGA to DVI I Adaptor X VGA Monitor Connector Y VGA to DVI I Adaptor Z DVI I Connection Display Configuration Connector s Used Comments Single DFP display DVI I connector DFP digital flat panel display Single CRT display VGA connector with VGA to DVI I adapter CRT cathode ray tube analog display The DVI I connection can support a CRT display using the VGA to DVI I adapter Quad buffered stereogra...

Page 14: ... display HDTV display DVI I connector HDTV cable YPbPr with HDTV Component Adapter HDTV adapter should be attached to DVI I that is farthest from the motherboard CRT display DFP display VGA connector with VGA to DVI I adapter DVI I connector CRT display CRT display VGA connector with VGA to DVI I adapter VGA connector with VGA to DVI I adapter DFP display DFP display Quad buffered stereographics d...

Page 15: ...figure multiple monitors CRT display DFP display Quad buffered stereographics device VGA connector with VGA to DVI I adapter DVI I connector Quad buffered stereographics Check driver release notes for limitations on the use of stereographics CRT display CRT display Quad buffered stereographics device VGA connector with VGA to DVI I adapter VGA connector with VGA to DVI I adapter Quad buffered ster...

Page 16: ...10 Display Configurations ...

Page 17: ...lity For more information consult the HydraVision user s guide included on the ATI Installation CD ROM Installing Drivers and Software in Windows You will need to install the FireGL drivers and software in the following cases After you have installed the card in your system After you have reinstalled or upgraded your operating system This procedure applies to Windows XP and Windows 2000 L If you d...

Page 18: ... The ATISETUP utility will start automatically if you insert the ATI Installation CD ROM into your CD ROM drive after the operating system has started If your CD ROM auto run is not enabled or the ATISETUP utility does not start automatically a Click the Start button in the task bar b Click Run c Select SETUP EXE from the root directory of the ATI Installation CD ROM d Click OK 3 Click Install und...

Page 19: ...ulti monitor display 1 From the Start menu click Control Panel then Display Click the Settings tab to access the basic multi monitor configuration settings Note ATI software provides many additional configuration features that can be accessed by clicking the Advanced button from the Display Properties Settings tab 2 Select the Monitor icon identified by the number 2 3 Click Extend my Windows deskt...

Page 20: ...r it cannot be enabled through this same dialog To clone your Primary monitor 1 Click the buttons on the ATI Displays tab to clone the Primary Monitor The ATI Displays tab shows you that only one display is enabled which is the Primary Display Clicking the red enable disable button for the Secondary display enables it and also creates a clone image of the Primary display onto the Secondary display...

Page 21: ... there was a Windows conflict Reinstall the drivers at any time using the ATISETUP utility located on the ATI Installation CD ROM The ATISETUP utility will start automatically if you insert the ATI Installation CD ROM into your optical drive after the operating system has started To manually reinstall drivers If your CD ROM auto run is not enabled and the ATISETUP utility does not start automatica...

Page 22: ...16 Reinstalling Drivers ...

Page 23: ...ced display multiple monitor and 3D graphics features in ATI s Display Properties options ATI Displays Tab The ATI Displays tab provides control over multiple monitor features Here you can enable disable display devices and swap the assignment of Primary and Secondary displays The Displays Tab ...

Page 24: ...le display device configurations that have previously been created New configurations can be entered here and then saved using the Save button Hotkey Associates a hotkey with a scheme To input the hotkey highlight the field and press the appropriate key combination on your keyboard Display Configuration button These are the buttons that contain the name of the devices that can be connected to your...

Page 25: ...dows Display Property dialog under Settings For more information consult your Windows documentation To assign your Primary monitor 1 Click the buttons to assign the Primary monitor Clicking the button will reassign the Primary and Secondary monitors Clicking the button creates a clone or mirror image of the Primary display onto the Secondary display 2 Click OK or Apply to save the changes ATI Colo...

Page 26: ...d settings will only be apparent within a full screen 3D application environment Profiles for Indicates whether the profiles in the drop down list are for your Desktop or a full screen 3D environment Profiles drop down list Lists all of the Desktop or Full Screen 3D profiles that you have saved Selecting a profile from the list loads those custom color settings for the relevant environment To crea...

Page 27: ...rve Brightness slider Increases or decreases the color brightness of your Desktop or full screen 3D application Changing the brightness adjusts the vertical position of the color curve Contrast slide Increases or decreases the color contrast of your Desktop or full screen 3D application Changing the contrast adjusts the slope of the color curve Reset buttons Restores an individual slider setting t...

Page 28: ...o button 2 Select the profile name from the drop down list box 3 Click Apply or OK To apply the settings for a Full Screen 3D profile 1 Choose the Full Screen 3D radio button 2 Select the profile name from the drop down list box 3 Click Apply or OK 4 Start your 3D application in full screen mode Hotkeys Some 3D applications automatically load their own color settings rather than those set through ...

Page 29: ... Current Profile action through the Hotkeys dialog make sure that the profile you prefer is selected from the drop down list box and click OK Once inside the 3D application use the hotkeys to trigger the profile Some 3D applications allow you to switch easily between full screen mode and windowed mode and do not load their own color settings In windowed mode you can make slider adjustments or sele...

Page 30: ...phics card s version information and specifications You can also enable or disable the ATI taskbar icon from this dialog The Options Tab ATI Options Tab WMV Acceleration When enabled improves the performance of WMV format video files Reactivate all warning messages Reactivates any disabled graphics warning messages ...

Page 31: ...TI taskbar applications and removes the ATI icon from your system tray Show ATI icon on taskbar Removes replaces the ATI icon from the system tray without disabling the ATI icon applications Disable quick resolution feature The quick resolution feature is accessible by left clicking the ATI icon in the system tray Checking this option disables this feature Reduce DVI frequency on high resolution R...

Page 32: ... add the information to the necessary Windows registry settings If prompted restart Windows If you subsequently experience problems with your application or if you want to try to optimize the performance of your system on specific applications modify your configuration settings accordingly Adding a new application profile Click the Add button in the Configuration Profiles section and enter the nam...

Page 33: ...stereo display only available for those FireGL cards equipped with a stereo video connector SMOOTHVISION improves image quality by removing jagged edges anti aliasing from 3D images resulting in smoother more natural look ing objects Configuration Settings Enable 8 Bit double buffered Overlay Planes A default setting that uses 8 bits of each 32 bit frame buffer pixel as double buffered overlay pla...

Page 34: ...his option results in high quality images at the price of a negligible reduction in the application s performance When Always on is enabled you can apply anti aliasing using different sample patterns and sample points such as 2X or 4X Moving the slider to the right increases sampling to provide the most realistic 3D image at the cost of overall 3D performance Note The Always on setting overrides a...

Page 35: ... option requires a stereographics connection on your FireGL card Enabling this feature while using compatible stereo glasses and applicable software provides an immersive 3D stereo display L The Enable Quad Buffer Stereo option is only available for graphics cards that come with a stereographics connection ...

Page 36: ...30 ATI Advanced Settings Tab ...

Page 37: ...ideo suitable for use with most HDTVs Installing Your ATI HDTV Component Video Adapter 1 Shut down your computer and then disconnect your monitor 2 Plug the ATI HDTV Component Video Adapter into the DVI I connector on your FireGL card and tighten the thumbscrews 3 Using the appropriate cables connect the ATI HDTV Component Video Adapter s outputs to your HDTV s video inputs L You must have a monit...

Page 38: ...ent input device manual for further instructions 5 Turn on your workstation Your TV will not display anything until Windows starts this may take several minutes 6 To return to your CRT monitor display shut down your computer re connect the CRT monitor and then restart your computer 1 DVI I connection 2 HDTV Component Adapter 3 HDTV Video Inputs ...

Page 39: ... 1080i The default setting is 480i or 480p depending upon your component input device In the example below 480i 480p and 1080i are supported Use a small flat head screwdriver to set the switches the up position is ON and the down position if OFF Set the switches ON for all modes that your HDTV or component input device supports Aspect Ratio If your display supports 16 9 aspect ratio set DIP switch...

Page 40: ...mode and screen resolution that provide the best viewing results for your TV and use those settings exclusively To change HDTV display settings 1 Click the Windows Start button point at Settings and then click Control Panel 2 Double click the Displays icon click the Settings tab and use the Screen resolution slider to select the desired resolution Note If the selected resolution is not related to ...

Page 41: ...Setting the ATI HDTV Component Video Adapter DIP Switches 35 Note The YPbPr Properties page opens The DIP switch settings of the Component Video Adapter are shown as selected in Dongle Settings ...

Page 42: ... Click the Adapter tab then click the List All Modes button 8 Select a desired resolution 9 Select a desired mode 60Hz Progressive 30Hz Interlaced Note YPbPr is only available with the 30Hz or 60HZ settings L To override the DIP switch settings click Custom Settings button and select the desired modes ...

Page 43: ...he following troubleshooting tips may help if you experience problems ATI s documentation contains helpful installation configuration tips and other valuable feature information Please contact your dealer for more advanced troubleshooting information More troubleshooting information can be found on the ATI Web site Please visit ati com and select Customer Care ...

Page 44: ...signments Make sure that the auxilary power cable is attached to the graphics card Contact ATI s Customer Care or your local technical support No Display Check that the card is seated properly in its expansion slot Ensure that the monitor cable is securely fastened to the card Make sure that the monitor and computer are plugged in and receiving power If necessary disable any built in graphics capa...

Page 45: ...g and positioning controls of your monitor to position the picture on the screen Note The Screen Position settings in Display Properties Advanced Displays Adjustments tune the position of the picture on the screen via the video signal Set the monitor s RGB inputs and sync switches if this option is available to 75 Ohms with the sync set to external DFP monitor users Make sure that the DVI plug of ...

Page 46: ...our FireGL card uses the following addresses hex I O Address Standard VGA I O 3B0 3DF Memory Addresses Video RAM A000 BFFF Video ROM C000 C7FF Note You cannot change the addresses of your FireGL card In case of an address conflict try to modify the I O address of the add on card that causes the conflict To support the special graphics processor on the FireGL card the system BIOS should automatical...

Page 47: ...e Argentina 0800 333 5277 Portuguese Spanish 7 00AM 3 30PM EST English 7 00AM 7 00PM Monday to Friday Toll free Telephone Brazil 0800 891 9068 Portuguese Spanish 7 00AM 3 30PM EST English 7 00AM 7 00PM Monday to Friday Toll free Telephone Mexico 001800 514 3276 Portuguese Spanish 7 00AM 3 30PM EST English 7 00AM 7 00PM Monday to Friday Toll free Telephone Other Latin American Countries 1 905 882 3...

Page 48: ... limit support options for products that are not registered or are at End of Life Warranty Information Hardware Warranty Service Statement ATI Technologies Inc warrants to the original purchaser of the hardware that the product is in good working condition according to its specifications at the time of shipment for a period of three years from the date of original purchase Should the product in AT...

Page 49: ...years from date of original purchase All accompanying cables and accessories are warranted for 90 days No warranties for this product expressed or implied shall extend to any person who purchases the product in a used condition The liability of ATI in respect of any defective product will be limited to the repair or replacement of such product ATI may use new or equivalent to new replacement parts...

Page 50: ...tallation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on 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 receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circu...

Page 51: ...61000 4 4 EN 61000 4 5 EN 61000 4 6 Informations de conformité de la CE Directive EMC 89 336 CEE et amendements 92 31 CEE et 93 68 CEE pour dispositif numérique de Classe B EN 55022 2003 CISPR 22 1997 Classe B Limites et méthodes de mesure des caractéristiques d interférences radiophoniques Matériel des technologies de l information EN 55024 1998 CISPR 24 1997 A1 2001 A2 2003 Norme sur l immunité ...

Page 52: ...on VCCI Class B ITE Compliance Information MIC Certification Information BSMI Certification Information Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Directive Compliance This product was manufactured by ATI Technologies Inc ...

Page 53: ...equired in order to produce a realistic representation of a three dimensional object on a two dimensional display AGP The Accelerated Graphics Port AGP is a slot on the computer motherboard designed specifically for 3D graphics cards AGP runs 3D images much more smoothly and quickly than was previously possible with PCI video cards AGP runs at several times the bus speed of PCI and employs sideban...

Page 54: ...y Aspect Ratio The proportions of a display are expressed as a ratio of its width and height Common ratios include 4 3 for TVs and CRTs 5 4 for LCDs and 16 9 for widescreen displays Back Buffer A type of offscreen memory used to provide smooth video and 2D graphics acceleration This technique uses two frame buffers so the process is often referred to as double buffering While the contents of one b...

Page 55: ...cter representation composed of individual pixels arranged horizontally in rows A monochrome bitmap uses one bit per pixel bpp Color bitmaps may use up to 32bpp depending on the color depth selected Brightness The amount of white or black that is applied to all colors onscreen By making the screen brighter you are adding more white to it This should not be confused with luminosity which measures t...

Page 56: ...s the complete absence of that particular color while a value of 255 in the upper right corner represents the full strength for that color Control Point A control point is a user created point on the color curve Users can change the color of the screen by moving the control points with a mouse CRT Acronym for cathode ray tube which is the main component of computer monitors and TVs Color CRTs use ...

Page 57: ...ch If the monitor is set to lower resolutions the pixels will be comprised of multiple dots DVI Acronym for Digital Video Interface a standard video connection used on many current computer displays There are three types of DVI connections DVI A analog DVI D digital and DVI I integrated capable of either analog or digital It supports high bandwidth video signals over 160 Hz so it is most often use...

Page 58: ...dual increases or decreases in the perceived brightness for that device A change in gamma produces a non linear change in the color curve ensuring that perceived changes in color and intensity are consistently applied Gouraud Shading A shading method used to produce a smooth lighting effect across a 3D object A specific color is used at each vertex of a triangle or polygon and interpolated across ...

Page 59: ...ndwidth efficiency particularly with respect to Z buffer operations The Z Buffer sometimes also called the Depth Buffer stores information used to determine the placement of objects in a 3D environment with respect to the viewpoint of the observer Reading and updating this buffer typically consumes more memory than any other part of the 3D rendering process making it a major performance bottleneck...

Page 60: ...trong shadows in the background A softer light would be more diffuse and not cast shadows such as you would get outdoors on a typical overcast day Mipmapping The most memory intensive aspect of 3D graphics are the textures that give an object its realism like wood marble leather and cloth Because objects in real life become less detailed as they move farther away from the viewer 3D programmers sim...

Page 61: ...card slot such as a separate graphics card PCI replaced the older ISA and VESA bus standards and was itself superseded by the AGP standard for the main graphics card bus PCI Express PCIe The successor standard to the PCI and AGP bus standards with a significantly faster serial communications system further opening up bandwidth for more communications between such peripherals as graphics cards and ...

Page 62: ... 60 Hz whereas computer displays typically have refresh rates of 75 Hz or more At refresh rates of 70 Hz and lower screen flicker is often noticeable Rendering Rendering refers to the final drawing stages where the 2D image that appears on a display is derived from its 3D descriptions What appears on the display may look three dimensional but it is really just a 2D grid of pixels designed to appea...

Page 63: ...SmartShader HD contains advanced vertex and pixel shading capabilities A shader is a small program that runs on the GPU and describes how an image should be rendered Vertex shaders manipulate the individual polygons that make up 3D objects and pixel shaders operate on the individual pixels that fill in these polygons to create a visible image SmartShader HD is designed to alleviate the resource co...

Page 64: ...apping is the process by which a two dimensional surface gets wrapped around a three dimensional object so that the 3D object takes on the same texture qualities For example if you take a 2D textured surface that looks like cloth and wrap it around a 3D sphere the sphere will now appear to have a cloth like surface Texture Preference Texture Preference is a feature enabling the user to select the ...

Page 65: ...te surface deformations such as waves rippling in a pool or the stretching and wrinkling of a character s clothes as he or she moves VGA Connector A type of graphics connector sometimes also called an analog connector It is the most common type of video connector available consisting of 15 pins set in three rows The VGA is an acronym for Video Graphics Array which is also the name for the video re...

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Page 67: ...g 47 Anisotropic filtering 48 57 Anti aliasing 48 57 Aspect Ratio 48 ATI taskbar applications disabling 24 25 enabling 24 25 ATISETUP utility 15 B Back Buffer 48 back buffer 49 Bilinear Filtering 48 Bit depth 49 Bitmap 49 brightness 21 22 49 52 53 color settings 19 Buffer 49 52 53 C card specification information 24 CE Compliance Information 45 Color 13 color hotkeys 21 Color component 49 50 Color...

Page 68: ... primary monitor 13 Configuration Tab 25 contrast 21 22 color settings 19 Control Panel 3 13 Control point 50 CPU 55 CRT 50 51 57 D Depth Buffer 53 desktop color settings 20 Digital Video Interface 51 Direct 3D 50 Direct 3D 28 display corruption DVI 25 high resolution 25 displays Hotkey 18 primary 17 scheme 18 secondary 17 Displays Tab 17 Dithering 51 Dot pitch 51 57 driver information 24 driver i...

Page 69: ...ection 21 Gouraud Shading 51 52 Graphical Processor Unit GPU 57 H HDTV 34 Help 3 High Definition Television HDTV 52 High Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection HDCP 52 Hotkeys color settings 22 Hue 53 57 HydraVision 53 HydraVision 12 HYDRAVISION 11 HyperZ HD 53 I Industry Canada Compliance 45 Installing your ATI HDTV Component Video Adapter 31 K Keyframe interpolation 53 KTX Buffer Region Extension 54 ...

Page 70: ...47 55 Pipeline 55 Pixel 56 57 pixel shaders 57 Pixel shading 57 primary display 17 primary monitor assigning 19 profiles color 20 R Red Green Blue RGB 53 57 Refresh Rate 13 56 registration 3 Rendering 56 Resolution 13 56 S safety instructions iii Saturation 53 57 secondary display 17 serial number 3 shader 57 shader effects 57 Shadow mask 57 SmartShader HD 57 SmoothVision HD 57 SMOOTHVISION 28 ...

Page 71: ...re buffer 49 Texture mapping 58 Texture Preference 58 Trilinear filtering 58 U UXGA 56 V Vertex shader 59 vertex shaders 57 vertical refresh rate 56 VGA 56 59 VGA connector 59 Video Graphics Array 59 video memory 49 W Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Compliance 46 Windows 15 55 X XGA 56 Y YPbPr 36 Z Z buffer 53 59 z buffer 49 ...

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