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RADEON
™
9200 SERIES
User's Guide
P/N 137-40474-10
Copyright © 2003, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.
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  • Page 1 Copyright © 2003, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and all ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of 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 without notice.

  • Page 2: Disclaimer

    ATI hardware, software, or other products and documentation provided herein. ATI Technologies Inc. reserves the right to make changes without further notice to a product or system described herein to improve reliability, function or design. With...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Disclaimer ....................i Product Notice..................i MACROVISION..................i Introduction........1 Features At A Glance ..................
  • Page 4 Using TV Out....... . 29 View your PC’s display on a TV............29 Connecting to a TV or a VCR ..............

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Introduction The RADEON 9200 Series graphic accelerators delivers ground breaking 3D graphics performance. • Designed and built by ATI Technologies Inc. • Powered by the RADEON 9200 Series Visual Processing Unit (GPU). • Awesome 3D gaming performance. ® • Support for OpenGL applications.

  • Page 6: Features At A Glance

    Features At A Glance RADEON 9200 Series The RADEON 9200 Series provides high performance acceleration for today's demanding 3D graphic applications. Its main features are: • VIDEO IMMERSION™ II which provides industry-leading DVD playback and digital TV decode capability • CHARISMA ENGINE™ II which is the main GPU, providing the necessary power to accelerate today’s 3D games and applications •...

  • Page 7: Ati's Catalyst™ Software Suite

    ™ ATI’s Catalyst Software Suite Multiple Displays and 3D Gaming Experience ATI’s Catalyst Software Suite provides multiple display functionality, and the advanced graphic features, such as SMARTSHADER, for the ultimate 3D gaming experience. For help on installing the Catalyst Software Suite, refer to the Getting Started Guide.

  • Page 8: Hydravision

    HydraVision™ In addition to the multiple display functionality available with ATI’s Catalyst Software Suite, you can also use HydraVision for advanced multi-monitor management. For more information on HydraVision, please refer to the HydraVision User’s Guide PDF located on your ATI Installation CD.

  • Page 9: Connecting Your Monitor(S)

    Connecting your monitor(s) The RADEON 9200 Series, depending on the graphic card configuration, provides hardware support for one VGA monitor and one flat panel monitor, or two VGA monitors using a DVI-I-to- VGA adapter*, or only one VGA monitor. It also provides TV Output via a S-Video out connector.

  • Page 10: Display Configurations

    S-VIDEO OUT CONNECTOR FROM MONITOR Display Configurations The following table lists the different ways you can connect displays to your RADEON 9200 Series with multimonitor configuration Display Connector(s) Used Comments Configuration VGA connector OR DVI-I CRT- cathode ray tube analog One CRT display connector with DVI-I-to-VGA display...
  • Page 11 Unsupported configuration if CRT display + VGA connector + the CRT display is attached to TV Output the DVI-I connector via a DVI-I- to-VGA adapter* DFP display + DVI-I connector + TV Output CRT display + VGA connector + DVI-I DFP display connector VGA connector + DVI-I...

  • Page 12: Catalyst™ Software Suite

    Catalyst™ Software Suite The following section provides an explanation of each ATI tab available after installing the Catalyst™ Software Suite. Features presented in the following pages may not be supported in all operating systems and/or may appear differently. ATI Displays Tab The ATI Displays tab provides the multi monitor features.

  • Page 13: Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays

    Enabling/Disabling Secondary Displays ® Access the Windows Control Panel. Double- click Display. Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. Click on the ATI Displays tab. Click the enable/disable button for the display device you want to enable/disable. Click OK or Apply to save the changes.

  • Page 14: Virtually Repositioning Your Displays

    To enable Extended Desktop Mode, refer to the section Enabling Extended Desktop Mode. ® Access the Windows Control Panel. Double- click Display. Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. Click on the ATI Displays tab. ® ® Windows XP, Windows The ATI Displays tab shows you the display(s) that...

  • Page 15: Ratiometric Expansion

    Click OK or Apply to save the changes. Ratiometric Expansion Your RADEON 9200 Series offers ratiometric expansion (or digital panel scaling as it is commonly known). This expands a low resolution image to fill a higher resolution panel. However, ratiometric expansion is only available on the Primary display.

  • Page 16: Ati Color Tab

    ATI Color Tab The ATI Color tab is used to adjust the color settings. You can change the red, green and blue display colors. Desktop brightness and Game Gamma (brightness) can also be changed. ATI Color Tab This increases or decreases the brightness of your Desktop desktop.
  • Page 17 Clicking the Game Gamma button accesses the Game Gamma Properties. Game Gamma Properties These controls allow you to increase or decrease the Red Green ® ® color brightness of Direct 3D and OpenGL games Blue sliders played in fullscreen mode. Uncheck this to adjust the RGB sliders individually.

  • Page 18: Ati Options Tab

    ATI Options Tab The ATI Options tab provides detailed driver information and access to the card’s specifications. You can also enable or disable the ATI taskbar icon. ATI Options Tab Provides the Catalyst version number, 2D version Version Information number and the driver build information. Provides access to the Details tab which lists the Details button card’s hardware details and driver information.

  • Page 19: Ati Overlay Tab

    Unchecking this allows you to remove the ATI icon Show ATI icon on from your system tray without disabling the ATI taskbar icon applications. Quick resolution feature is accessible by left- Disable quick clicking the ATI icon in the system tray. Checking resolution feature this option disables the feature.
  • Page 20 ATI Overlay Tab Use this slider to adjust the brightness of the video Brightness image. Use this slider to adjust the contrast in the video Contrast image. Use this slider to adjust the vividness of the color. Sliding it all the way to the left removes all color Saturation and produces a black and white picture.

  • Page 21: Clone Mode Settings

    Clone Mode Settings Clone Mode Options Video content is displayed on your Primary display Standard only. Video content is displayed on your Primary and Secondary displays. Video content is displayed on your Secondary display(s) is always in full screen Theater Mode mode.Note: your computer must be set for 16-bit color depth or higher to use this mode.

  • Page 22: Direct 3D® Control Panel

    ® Direct 3D Control Panel Using this tab, gamers can fine-tune the settings for ® Direct 3D games. Main and Custom Settings In the Main Settings you can maximize overall performance by moving the slider to the left, or you can enhance overall image quality by moving the slider to the right.
  • Page 23 This allows you to emphasize what kind of application experience you’d like to have. Moving the slider to the left will maximize application performance, while moving the slider to the right Main Settings slider will provide excellent 3D image quality. Moving this slider from one position to the next changes the individual Custom Settings sliders found below.
  • Page 24 Selecting this decides whether your application should use high quality or high performance Texture textures. Moving the slider to the right delivers the Preference highest quality experience. Moving the slider to slider the left emphasizes a high performance solution while still providing good visuals. This will allow you to choose the texture quality of the mipmaps the application will use.

  • Page 25: Direct 3D® Compatibility Settings

    ® Direct 3D Compatibility Settings Enabling this allows applications to use this kind of texture format. There are a few applications that Support DXT can only support a limited number of texture texture formats. By selecting Disabled, the driver will not formats support DXT texture formats, thus reducing the number of texture formats supported.

  • Page 27: Opengl® Control Panel

    ® OpenGL Control Panel Using this tab, gamers can fine-tune the settings for ® OpenGL games. Main and Custom Settings In the Main Settings you can maximize overall performance by moving the slider to the left, or you can enhance overall image quality by moving the slider to the right.
  • Page 28 This allows you to emphasize what kind of application experience you’d like to have. Moving the slider to the left will maximize application performance, while moving the slider to the right Main Settings slider will provide excellent 3D image quality. Moving this slider from one position to the next changes the individual Custom Settings sliders found below.
  • Page 29 Selecting this decides whether your application should use high quality or high performance Texture textures. Moving the slider to the right delivers the Preference highest quality experience. Moving the slider to slider the left emphasizes a high performance solution while still providing good visuals. This will allow you to choose the texture quality of the mipmaps the application will use.

  • Page 30: Opengl® Compatibility Settings

    ® OpenGL Compatibility Settings Force Z-buffer This allows you to explicitly set the Z-Buffer depth. Most depth applications will work best when Disabled is selected When applications use both dithering and alpha blending, visual artifacts can occur. This option allows Alpha you to select how the application should handle both dithering...

  • Page 31: Smartgart

    SMARTGART™ SMARTGART is a suite of testing and diagnostics tools that perform a variety of bus tests to determine the optimal settings for your ATI graphics accelerator installed in your computer. SMARTGART automatically configures your graphics device to the optimal settings. SMARTGART does not actually disable any AGP functionality in your computer’s hardware.

  • Page 32: Retest All

    This setting is disabled for many computers because the motherboard is not capable of supporting this feature. Retest All Click this button to retest all graphic bus capabilities. All tests and diagnostics are initiated immediately following a system restart. Any settings that have previously been set to Off will be turned on, providing the test passes.

  • Page 33: Using Tv Out

    Using TV Out View your PC’s display on a TV Your RADEON 9200 Series has TV Out capability. You can attach your card to a TV and monitor at the same time. Or you can connect it to your VCR and record your monitor’s display.

  • Page 34: Connecting To A Tv Or A Vcr

    Connecting to a TV or a VCR To connect your RADEON 9200 Series to a TV or a VCR, use the available TV Output connector. Your card will support either a S-video connector or a Composite connector. If your TV has cable input only, you can connect your card to your TV through your VCR or an RF modulator (available in most electronics stores).

  • Page 35: Starting Windows® With Tv Display Enabled

    Turn on your PC and your TV (or VCR). S-Video Out S-Video In Composite In TV or VCR NOTE: Newer TVs may have S-Video Cable or the Video Input on the front Composite Cable panel S-Video-to-Composite Adapter ® Starting Windows with TV Display Enabled The TV screen may become scrambled during the ®...

  • Page 36: Using Scart Connectors For European Tvs

    Using SCART Connectors for European TVs (Right = red) Audio In (Left = white) Connect to PC Connect to Audio Out Audio Cable TV or VCR Composite Cable or S-Video-to-Composite Adapter Cable Connect to PC SCART TV Output Composite Video-In (yellow) CONNECTOR The above illustration shows how to connect your PC to a European TV using the SCART.

  • Page 37: Using And Adjusting Tv Out

    Using and Adjusting TV Out For information about how to use TV display, right click the ATI taskbar icon, point to Help, then point to ATI Television Display. How TV Display Cannot Be Used A TV cannot be left connected to the RADEON 9200 Series if two analog monitors are connected, even if the TV is off and not enabled in the software.

  • Page 38: Viewing Text On A Tv

    Use the controls available on the Adjustments tab on the Monitor Properties page (accessible by clicking on the Monitor button on the ATI Displays tab) to adjust the display on your monitor only. Click on the TV button to adjust the TV display only. Viewing Text on a TV A TV is designed primarily to show moving, rather than static, images.
  • Page 39 To Increase the Horizontal Size ® Access the Windows Control Panel. Double- click Display. Click on the Settings tab and then the Advanced... button. Click on the ATI Displays tab. Click on the TV button. Click the Adjustments tab. In the Screen Size section, click on the plus (+) button beside the horizontal arrowheads increase the horizontal size of the TV display.

  • Page 40: Changing Display Configurations

    Changing Display Configurations If you move your PC to a place where you are using TV display only, make sure that you have the TV display feature enabled. You can set your display resolution as high as 1024x768. However, higher resolutions will result in a virtual desktop.

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