ATI Technologies 9600 - Radeon XT 128 MB DDR Video Adapter User manual

Radeon® 9600 PRO
PC & Mac Edition
User’s Guide
P/N 137-40864-10

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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
System Requirements 1
External Connections 1
Related Documentation 2
Multimedia Features 2
Viewing 3D Graphics 2
TV Out Support 3
ATI Displays Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction 5
Open the ATI Displays control panel 5
ATI Displays Control Panel 6
Advanced Display Options 6
VersaVision™ Tab 7
Display Scaling 7
Display Control Tab 9
Advanced DFP Tab 10
3D OpenGL® Overrides 10
Add an Application Profile 11
Select or Create a Preset 11
Enabling Mac2TV™ 12
Set Up Tab 12
Optimizing Mac2TV™ 13
Controls Tab 13
Ratio/Size Tab 14
ATI Displays Preferences 16
ATI Displays Help 16
Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback 16
Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) 17
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Video Mode Table 19
Digital Flat Panel 20
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Product Registration 21
Customer Care 21

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Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
FCC Compliance Information 23
Industry Canada Compliance Statement 23
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Directive Compliance 24
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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CHAPTER 1:
Introduction
The Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition is a graphics accelerator card
that delivers maximum programmability and entertainment value to both
gamers and developers. It includes flexible dual-display support for
multiple combinations of Digital Flat Panel and CRT monitors. Your new
graphics card provides:
• Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations using
digital and analog displays.
• OpenGL® acceleration providing superior 3D rendering
performance, advanced imaging, and filtering techniques.
• Quartz® Extreme and Core Image.
• Industry leading DVD acceleration for High Bitrate, low CPU
usage, and playback of the latest movies at any resolution.
The Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition can also be installed in a
Microsoft® Windows® based computer. For more information see the PC
Getting Started guide that was shipped with your graphics card. A PC-
specific version of the User’s Guide can be found on the PC installation
CD-ROM.
System Requirements
External Connections
• One Dual Link DVI output.
• One Single Link DVI output.
Hardware • AGP 4X capable G4 or G5 computer.
• Minimum 512MB of system memory.
Operating
System • Mac OS® X version 10.3.6 or higher.
Monitor • Compatible display devices: DVI or VGA display (using
the supplied DVI-to-VGA adapter).
• ADC Style Display Panel requires an adapter (sold
separately).

2 Related Documentation
Note: Future references to Mac OS® X in this manual are intended
to be generic and inclusive of their respective versions of the
Macintosh® operating systems.
Related Documentation
The README file summarizes the latest product revisions. Click the
README icon on the installation disk to open this file.
Detailed help and feature descriptions are available directly in ATI
Displays.
Multimedia Features
Your Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition turns your Mac computer
into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. Use your new graphics accelerator
card to:
• Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2560 x 1600.
• Watch full screen, full motion, DVD quality video using the
Apple® DVD Player or QuickTime® playback acceleration.
• Output your Mac’s display to digital flat panels and digital
projectors.
• Output to analog displays and projectors.
The following information describes these features in more detail and
suggests ways you can optimize your machine to get the most out of your
card.
Viewing 3D Graphics
Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition’s 3D acceleration features support
the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities:
• 4 pixel pipeline architecture.
• 128 bit memory interface.
• Hardware accelerated vertex and pixel shaders.
• 1.6 Gigapixels per second fill rate.
• transform rate of 200 million vertices per second.
• 8.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth.

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In addition, the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition offers the
following graphics technologies:
SmoothVision™ 2.1 is an antialiasing solution that raises the bar for image
quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to post-process
graphics before they are displayed.
SmartShader™ 2.0 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™ 2.0 is designed to alleviate the resource constraints of
earlier shader hardware, paving the way for more complex, detailed, and
realistic shader effects in applications requiring high-performance 3D
rendering.
HyperZ™ III makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by
decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer at higher
resolutions.
Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition only displays 3D graphics in
thousands and millions of colors. If you set your display to 256 colors, this
will affect Finder™, OpenGL®, Quartz® Extreme, and QuickTime®
acceleration.
TV Out Support
The Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition supports TV Out by using the
optional Apple® G5 DVI-I to Video Adapter. For more information see
your local Apple® reseller.

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Introduction 5
CHAPTER 2:
ATI Displays Control Panel
Introduction
The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features of
that the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition has to offer.
Open the ATI Displays control panel
1Open the Apple® System Preferences.
2Click the ATI Displays icon.
or
1Click the Hard Disk icon.
2Open Applications folder.
3Open Utilities folder.
4Open ATI Utilities folder.
5Open ATI Displays.
For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features, refer to
the built-in help feature, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays
control panel.

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ATI Displays Control Panel
Display Info dialog shows the current display settings for the display.
Detect Displays button detects all connected displays. This feature is
useful when a second VGA monitor is connected to your graphics adapter.
Detect Displays removes the need to restart your computer.
Note: Your display will momentarily go blank when all devices are
being detected.
The Profile dialog presents information on the specific Radeon® graphics
card and video driver installed in your computer. Even if ATI Displays
cannot identify your ATI product it will still provide display configuration,
driver version and other related information. A warning dialog will display
if no ATI product is installed in your computer.
The Support dialog provides an internet link to ATI Technologies’ web
site.
Click Create Apple® System Profiler Report to generate a detailed
report of the computer’s installed hardware and software.
Advanced Display Options
Advanced Display Options adds even more functionality, giving you
complete control over your display.

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To access the Advanced features open the ATI Displays control panel and
click the ADVANCED button.
VersaVision™ Tab
UsetheVersaVision™ tab to rotate your display while maintaining thefull
feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. ATI’s hardware
accelerateddisplayrotation andscalingtechnology providesrotationleftor
right by 90 degrees or turn it upside down to a full 180 degree rotation.
Use Relative Rotation to rotate the contents of your display relative to its
current position. Hovering the mouse cursor over a direction button will
show you a preview of the change. Clicking the desired rotation button will
cause the display to refresh and rotate.
Full 3D support is maintained regardless of rotation selected.
Use the Default button to reset Relative Rotation and return your display
to its normal orientation.
Use the Revert button to undo all changes and reset the desktop to the
original state or last known good setting.
Display Scaling
Use this option to control the display output size without affecting the
desktop resolution of your display.

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If the computer desktop, toolbar or dock exceeds the physical size of your
display select StandardUnderscan(87%)in the DesktopSizedrop down
menu.
You can also create a unique desktop size by selecting Custom and
adjusting the slider to the desired setting.

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Display Control Tab
Force Single Display Operation, when using a dual display video card,
causes all display modes to appear as a single list of supported resolutions
in the Apple® Displays Properties.
Only one display is on when this feature is enabled. The default setting is
Disabled.
Enable GTF Modes for CRT provides a list of all available modes for
your monitor based on the Generalized Timing Formula standard. This
feature is enabled by default.
EnableATI“Valid” and “Safe”flagsinmodelist, when enabled, lets the
video card to determine which video modes are valid and safe.
Enable Hot Plug Detection lets the operating system automatically detect
when a display is connected to the computer and activates the “Detect
Displays” button. This removes the need to restart the computer after
attaching a secondary display.
Defaultbutton undoes all changes andsetseverything to the factory default
settings.
Apply button causes all the selected options to be enabled at one time.

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Advanced DFP Tab
The features on this tab are intended to support Digital Flat Panels (DFP)
only.
Enable ATI Hardware Scaler on non-Apple panels can be used with flat
panels with fixed resolutions. Use this feature to change video modes using
the ATI Scaler.
Enable frequency reduction on high resolution displays may correct
problems concerning jitter or dot crawl.
Enable Alternate DVI TMDS Receiver Mode corrects problems such as
noise or blank screens on some flat panels.
Default button undoes all changes and sets everything back to the original
factory settings.
Apply button enables all the selected options at one time.
3D OpenGL® Overrides
ATI Displays can override key 3D graphics options for OpenGL® based
games and applications. Create a profile, a group of settings, that can be
applied on a per program basis. Use OpenGL® Overrides to turn on
OpenGL® functionality when it is not supported by a specific application
or turn off functionality where it is enabled by an application.

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Add an Application Profile
To add an application to the Application Profile list:
1Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays.
2Click Add.
3Browse to the desired application.
4Click Choose.
Select or Create a Preset
ATI Displays includes a number of predefined OpenGL® presets that can
be applied to any application. You can also create your own unique preset.
To select a Preset:
1Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays.
2Select the desired preset from the Preset drop-down menu.
To create a new preset:
1Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays.
2Click Preset drop-down menu and select New Preset.
3Enter a name for the preset.

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4Configure the preset by making adjustments to the Performance,
FSAA, Anisotropic Filtering, and Vertical Sync sliders.
Note: The preset selections and adjustments are saved automatically
as they are made.
Enabling Mac2TV™
The Mac2TV™ options are available when a TV is detected by the
graphics card. Mac2TV™ is only supported using the single link DVI
output via an Apple® DVI-to-Video adapter.
Set Up Tab
Video Output shows whether a TV or VCR has been detected. Select
Always Connected to over-ride this feature and force TV detection. Video
Output will display Device Detected (Off) or Device Detected (On)
depending on whether TV mode is selected. This feature is only supported
by graphics cards with a native TV Out port. The Radeon® 9600 PRO PC
& Mac Edition has this feature greyed out as it is always supported when
Mac2TV™ is enabled.
Use Output Standard to select and restrict the TV standard for your
country. The default setting is NTSC/PAL which provides support for both
standards.
Black & White, when enabled, forces Black & White output. The video
card produces greys instead of colors in the output signal producing sharper
images and text.

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Extra Set up: Hard Sync to TV, when enabled, removes a black line that
may appear at the bottom of the screen of high end TV equipment. This
process slightly alters the color across the screen. This color alteration may
or may not be visible.
Unless you notice a black line on your TV screen, it is recommended to
leave Hard Sync to TV disabled.
Optimizing Mac2TV™
You can optimize your TV display 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
Displays Control Panel then click the Controls tab button.
Controls Tab
Sharpness makes details on the TV screen sharper. Use this setting to
make blurry text readable.
Frozen Dot Crawl, when enabled, removes the undesirable characteristic
of many Composite televisions that is seen as thin, jagged edges moving
around objects on the screen. It is especially useful for viewing pictures or
stills. S-Video equipment does not exhibit this effect.

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The Anti-Flicker slider reduces the amount of display flicker. Display
flicker is both a distraction and tiring to your eyes, and is most pronounced
when text is being displayed.
The Brightness slider is related to the amount of light emitted by your
display or reflected from an object.
The Contrast slider 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, like
pure white squares on a jet-black background. If the contrast is too low, the
image may look gray or washed out.
The Hue slider, often used as a synonym for “color”, is the quality that
distinguishes among red, green, yellow, and so on. Hue is generally not
adjusted. Depending on the TV, however, it may be necessary or desirable
to adjust the hue to approximate the monitor’s display.
The Saturation slider is the amount of color present that distinguishes pale
or washed-out colors from vivid ones. Extreme settings, will produce black
& white (greyscale) output.
The Default button undoes all changes and sets everything to the factory
default settings.
The Revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original
state or last known good setting.
Ratio/Size Tab
Use the Ratio/Size tab to adjust the Aspect Ratio and change the display
size and position.
To set the video out preferences, click the Mac2TV™ icon on the ATI
Displays Control Panel then click the Ratio/Size tab button.

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UseAspectRatiotoselectbetween a fully adjustable display or one locked
to a specific aspect ratio. 4:3 Standard, 16.9 Widescreen, and Current
screen resolution are all fixed modes.
Overscan increases the vertical and horizontal size to fill your TV.
Use Movie Mode for the best results viewing TV or DVDs.
Use Display Position to move the TV/VCR image on your display. Use the
arrow buttons to locate the image to the desired position.
Use Display Size to increase or decrease the size of the TV/VCR image on
your display.
The Default button undoes all changes and sets everything to the factory
default settings.
The Revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original
state or last known good setting.

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ATI Displays Preferences
From the ATI Displays drop down menu you can set the Preferences for the
ATI Displays control panel. Here you can configure how the ATI Displays
control panel starts and exits.
ATI Displays Help
ATI Displays Help is an additional source of information when you are
using the ATI Displays control panel. Simply click on the icon on the
ATI Displays control panel.
Using DVD and QuickTime®Playback
Use the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition’s QuickTime® playback
acceleration to stretch movies to full screen size without compromising
frame rate or image quality. Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition’s
hardware scaler maintains the original quality of your DVD or
QuickTime® movie when scaling to a larger size – even full screen.
When playing movies in thousands or millions of colors, the ATI card
utilizes the 3D engine’s capabilitiesto scale and accelerate playback. When
scaling video, the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition uses special
hardware techniques (bilinear filtering) to enhance the video quality
instead of just repeating pixels.