ATI Technologies X1600 - Radeon Pro 512 MB PCI Express User manual

Radeon® X1600
Series
User’s Guide
P/N 137-40890-20

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Note: This graphics card is for use only with compatible UL Listed
personal computers that have Installation Instructions detailing user
installation of card cage accessories.
LIMPORTANT 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® X1600 Series Features 1
Features 1
System Requirements 4
External Connections 4
Before You Begin 5
Record Your Serial and Part Numbers 5
Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 5
Installing Your ATI Graphics Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing Hardware 7
Graphics Card Bus Types 7
Basic Graphics Card Installation 7
Advanced Installation: AGP 9
Advanced Installation: PCIe™ 11
Connecting Devices 13
Using Multiple Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting Your Monitors 15
Display Configurations 17
Installing Software and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® 19
Software Installation Prerequisites 19
Monitor Configuration 20
Reinstalling Drivers 21
Installing the Catalyst™ Software Suite 22
Catalyst™ Control Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Launching Catalyst™ Control Center 25
Launching Catalyst™ Control Center Using the Start Menu 25
Other Quick Launch Access Points 26
Catalyst™ Control Center Dashboard 28
Catalyst™ Control Center Views 29
Basic View 29
Advanced View 29

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Custom View 29
Hotkeys Manager 30
Profiles Manager 32
Preferences 34
Help 36
Information Center 37
Displays Manager 38
Displays Manager 39
Display Options 44
Monitor Properties 47
Monitor Attributes 48
Digital Panel Properties 49
Attributes 50
Avivo™ Color 52
HDTV Support 53
3D 55
Standard Settings 56
Anti-aliasing 58
Adaptive Anti-aliasing 60
Anisotropic Filtering 60
Catalyst™ A.I. 62
Mipmap Detail Level 64
SmartShader™ 65
All Settings 66
Set the Anti-Aliasing preference manually 67
API Specific 69
Color 71
Color Desktop 72
Color - FullScreen 3D 75
Avivo™ Video for Radeon® Series starting from 9500 76
Standard Settings 77
Adjustments 78
Video Overlay Theater Mode 80
Deinterlacing 81
All Settings 83
VPU Recover 86
CrossFire™ 88
Using TV Display and Capture Features . . . . . . . 95
Using TV Out 95
Viewing Your PC’s Display on a TV 95
Connecting to a TV 95
Using a Monitor vs. Using TV Display 96
Viewing Text on a TV 97

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Using a TV as the Only Display 97
Using Games and Applications 97
Connecting to HDTV 97
Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable 99
CrossFire™ FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Troubleshooting 105
Product Registration 109
Customer Care 109
Getting Additional Accessories 111
Compliance Information 111
FCC Compliance Information 111
Industry Canada Compliance Statement 112
CE Compliance Information 112
Informations de conformité de la CE 112
Electrical Safety 112
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Directive Compliance 113
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

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Radeon® X1600 Series Features 1
CHAPTER 1:
Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1600 Series
graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free
computing.
Radeon® X1600 Series Features
Features
• 157 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process.
• Dual-link DVI.
• Twelve pixel shader processors.
• Five vertex shader processors.
• 128-bit 4-channel DDR/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface.
• Native PCI Express x16 bus interface.
• AGP 8x configurations also supported with AGP-PCI-E external
bridge chip.
• Dynamic Voltage Control.
Ring Bus Memory Controller
• 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads.
• Programmable intelligent arbitration logic.
• Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs.
• Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test.
• Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1).
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear.
• Z/stencil cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.
Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine
• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.
• Full speed 128-bit floating point processing.

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• Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic
branching and flow control.
• Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency.
• 3Dc+ texture compression
• High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel
data formats.
• High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps and single-
channel data formats.
• Multiple Render Target (MRT) support.
• Render-to-vertex buffer support.
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0
Advanced Image Quality Features
• 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the
pipeline.
• Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing.
• 32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the
pipeline.
• Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing.
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes.
• Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable
sparse sample patterns, and centroid sampling.
• New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and
Quality modes.
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode.
• Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions,
including widescreen HDTV resolutions.
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes.
• Up to 128-tap texture filtering.
• Adaptive algorithm with Performance and Quality options.
• High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k).
Avivo™ Video and Display Platform
• High performance programmable video processor.
• Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and
H.264 decoding and transcoding.
• DXVA support.
• De-blocking and noise reduction filtering.