ATI Technologies Radeon X300 Series User manual

ATI
RADEON™ X300 Series
User’s Guide
P/N 137-40723-10

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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
•Read Instructions - All the safety and operating instructions should
be read before the product is operated.
•Retain Instructions - The safety and operating instructions should
be retained for future reference.
•Heed Warnings - All warnings on the product and the operating
instructions should be adhered to.
•Compatibility - This option card is for use only with IBM AT or
compatible UL Listed personal computers that have Installation
Instructions detailing user installation of card cage accessories.
•Grounding - For continued protection against risk of electric shock
and fire, this accessory should be installed only in products equipped
with a three-wire grounding plug, a plug 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 option card
and the PC chassis.
•Lightning - For added protection for this product during a lightning
storm, or when it is left unattended and unused for long periods of
time, unplug it from the wall outlet, and disconnect the antenna or
cable system. This will prevent damage to the product due to
lightning and power-line surges.
•Power Lines - An outside antenna system should not be located in
the vicinity of overhead power lines or other light or power circuits, or
where it can fall into such power lines or circuits.
•Antenna Installation - When installing an outside antenna system,
extreme care should be taken to keep from touching such power lines
or circuits, as contact with them may be fatal.

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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
RADEON™ X300 Series Features 1
Graphic Features 1
External Connections 1
Using Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Connecting Your Monitors 3
Display Configurations 4
ATI’s CATALYST™ Software Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction 5
Features 5
Multiple Displays and 3D Gaming 5
HYDRAVISION™ 5
Accessing the CATALYST™ Software Suite 5
ATI Displays Tab 6
ATI Color Tab 8
Hotkeys 12
Color Hotkeys Settings 13
ATI Options Tab 15
Options Details Tab 16
ATI Rotation Tab 17
Rotation HotKeys 19
ATI Overlay Tab 20
Video Overlay 20
Clone Mode Settings 21
ATI 3D Tab 23
Custom Properties Dialog 25
Direct 3D® Compatibility Settings 28
OpenGL® Compatibility Settings 29
ATI VPU Recover Tab 30
Using TV Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using TV Out 33
View your PC’s display on a TV 33
Starting Windows® with TV Display Enabled 35
Using SCART Connectors for European TVs 35
How To Enable/Disable The TV Display 36

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Using and Adjusting TV Display Features 36
How TV Display Cannot Be Used 36
Using a Monitor vs. Using TV Display 36
Adjusting Monitor Display 36
Viewing Text on a TV 37
Reducing Edge Distortion 37
Using TV Display Alone 38
Using Games and Applications 38
Select your TV broadcast format 38
Adjust your TV screen size 39
Adjust your TV screen position 40
Adjust the composite sharpness of your TV display 40
Adjust the S-Video sharpness of your TV display 41
Adjust the composite dot crawl on your TV Display 41
Adjust the chroma flicker removal setting on your TV Display (if
available) 42
Adjust the luma flicker removal setting on your TV Display 42
Reset the advanced settings on your TV Display(if available) 43
Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
FCC Compliance Information 45
Industry Canada Compliance Statement 45
CE Compliance Information 46
L’Information de conformité de la CE 46
CE-Konformitätserklärung 46
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

RADEON™ X300 Series Features 1
CHAPTER 3:
Introduction
RADEON™ X300 Series Features
Graphic Features
• Four parallel rendering pipelines.
• SMARTSHADER™
• Full hardware-based support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0/9.1
programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration.
• Complete feature-set support for OpenGL® 1.5 and 2.0
extensions.
• SMOOTHVISION™
• Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and
improves blurred images.
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with aloss-less compression up to a
ratio of 6:1 at all resolutions.
• 2x/4x//8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes with up to 128-tap
texture filtering.
• HYPER Z™
• Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant
object data that is not visible to the user.
• Conserves video memory bandwidth.
• Loss-less Z-buffer compression
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.
• VIDEOSHADER™
• Seamlessly integrates pixel shaders with video in real time.
• All format DTV/HDTV decoding.
• Adaptive Per-Pixel- De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion.
External Connections
• 15-pin D-shell (female) VGA output.
• DVI-I output.

2 RADEON™ X300 Series Features
• S-Video output or Video In/Video Out (VIVO) connection.

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CHAPTER 4:
Using Displays
Connecting Your Monitors
Your RADEON™ X300 Series provides hardware support for one VGA
monitor as well as TV output via a S-Video Out or Composite Out
connector.
Note: If you use multiple monitors, the RADEON™ X300 Series
card must be the primary graphics card. Normally, the system BIOS
determines which graphics card will be the primary.
Connections and Adapters for the RADEON™ X300 Series Card
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Standard VGA Monitor Connector. To connect a VGA monitor
to the DVI-I connector, plug the supplied DVI-I-to-VGA adapter
into the DVI-I connector, then plug your monitor cable into the
adapter.

4 Display Configurations
To connect your monitor
1 Power off your computer and monitor.
2 Plug the monitor cable into the appropriate connector.
3 Power on your monitor first, and then restart your computer so that
Windows® can detect the new hardware settings.
4 When the New Hardware Found Wizard appears, at the appropriate
prompt insert the ATI Installation CD to load the drivers for your
RADEON™ X300 Series card.
Display Configurations
Your RADEON™ X300 Series graphics card provides single display
functionality and TV Out. The following table lists the different ways you
can connect displays to your card.
Display
Configuration Connector(s) Used Comments
Single CRT
display VGA connector CRT- cathode ray tube analog display.
Single TV S-Video Out The S-Video out can also support a
composite connection via the S-
Video-to-Composite adapter.
Single TV Composite Out
CRT display +
TV VGA connector + S-Video Out
CRT display +
TV VGA connector + Composite Out