User’s Guide
Radeon X1550 Series
Macrovision
Disclaimer
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
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Installing Hardware
Table of Contents
Using Multiple Displays
Introduction
Using TV Display and Capture Features
Installing Software and Drivers
CrossFire FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Reference
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Introduction
Radeon X1550 Series Features
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SmoothVision
512-bit Ring Bus Memory Controller
VideoShader
Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine
High Dynamic Range HDR Rendering
CrossFire Ready
Before You Begin
System Requirements
External Connections
Record Your Serial and Part Numbers
To uninstall previous drivers
Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers
2 Navigate to the Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs
6 Before You Begin
Basic Graphics Card Installation
Installing Hardware
Graphics Card Bus Types
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Installing the graphics card
Graphic Card Installation
Advanced Installation AGP
10 Advanced Installation AGP
Installing the graphics card
Advanced Installation PCIe
Advanced Installation PCIe
Graphics Card Installation
12 Advanced Installation PCIe
3 Remove the computer cover
14 Connecting Devices
Connecting Devices
Connector Types
Connecting Your Monitors
Using Multiple Displays
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2 Plug the monitor cables into their appropriate connectors
1 Power off your computer and monitors
To connect your monitors
Configuration
Connectors
Display
Comments
Connectors
18 Display Configurations
Configuration
Display
Configuration
Connectors
Display Configurations
Display
20 Display Configurations
Installing Drivers and Software in Windows
Installing Software and Drivers
To install ATI drivers and software
CHAPTER
Monitor Configuration
Reinstalling Drivers
To set up a multi-monitor display
To configure your primary display
To manually reinstall drivers
To install the Catalyst software suite
Installing the Catalyst Software Suite
Express or Custom Install
Installing the Catalyst Software Suite
26 Installing the Catalyst Software Suite
Launching Catalyst Control Center
Catalyst Control Center
Launching Catalyst Control Center Using the Start Menu
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Launching Catalyst Control Center Using the System Tray
Other Quick Launch Access Points
Launching Catalyst Control Center Using the Desktop Shortcut
Launching Catalyst Control Center Using Hot Keys
Catalyst Control Center Standard View
Launching Catalyst Control Center
Catalyst Control Center Dashboard
Switch Views
Catalyst Control Center Views
Basic View
Advanced View
Enable Hotkeys feature
Hotkeys Manager
1 Open Hotkeys Manager 2 Select the Enable Hotkeys feature check box
Create a Custom View
Create a list of active hot keys
Profiles Manager
1 Open Hotkeys Manager
See a list of active hot keys only
2 Select Profiles Manager
Display Profiles Manager
Create a profile
2 Open the Profiles Manager
Activate an application, file, or shortcut when a profile is started
Preferences
1 Open the Profiles Manager
3 Click opens the following application, file or shortcut
Hide or show Tooltips
2 Click Always on Top
Show or hide text that appears on the toolbar buttons
Hide the Catalyst Control Center Splash Screen
Change Catalyst Control Center language
Restore Catalyst Control Center to the factory default settings
Change the appearance of the Catalyst Control Center
Display help for the aspect or feature you are using
Help
2 Click Help Contents
Create a Problem Report
To access the Information Center
Information Center
To access system information
Displays Manager
Access Displays Manager
Displays Manager Advanced View
Enable a secondary display device
Enable Extended Mode
3 Click Yes to the Enable this display dialog
3 Click Yes to the Enable this display? dialog
4 Click Yes to the Enable this display? dialog
Enable Stretch Main Horizontally
Enable Stretch Main Vertically
2 Click Clone Main with display device
3 Click Stretch vertically onto display device in the pop-up menu
3 Select Swap displays
Swap displays in Extended Mode
Swap displays in all other modes
3 Select Swap display mapping
Apply your settings
Force changes to a specific display setting
Discard your settings
Rotate the desktop
46 Display Options
Display Options
Select a refresh rate override
Determine how display devices are detected
Set resolution modes for devices with limited resolution capabilities
Detect whenever Catalyst Control Center is opened
Use manual detection only I must click Detect Displays button
Apply your settings
Monitor Properties
Discard your settings
Restore default settings
Monitor Attributes
Enable Extended Display Identification Data EDID
2 Click Attributes
Restore default settings
Apply your settings
2 Click Defaults
Discard your settings
Set Image Scaling
Attributes
2 Click Attributes
Apply your settings
Adjust the DVI Settings
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Set Color Temperature
Avivo Color
Apply your settings
Restore default settings
Discard your settings
HDTV Support
Add 720p mode to the Displays Manager Force button
2 Click HDTV Support
Add 1080p mode to the Displays Manager Force button
Add 1080i mode to the Displays Manager Force button
2 Click HDTV Support
3 Click Add 1080i standard format to the Displays Manager
2 Click HDTV Support
Add an HDTV format
4 Click Apply formats
2 Click HDTV Support
Restore default settings
Apply your settings
2 Click Defaults
Discard your settings
Adjust your Standard settings
Standard Settings
Discard your settings
Apply your settings
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Set the Anti-Aliasing preference manually
Anti-aliasing
Set Temporal anti-aliasing using SmoothVision HD
Set the Anti-Aliasing preference manually
Discard your settings
Apply your settings
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Anisotropic Filtering
Adaptive Anti-aliasing
Set the level of adaptive anti-aliasing
2 Click Adaptive Anti-Aliasing
Apply your settings
2 Click Anisotropic Filtering 3 Select Enable High Quality AF
Set the Anisotropic Filtering to automated preference
2 Click Anisotropic Filtering
Discard your settings
Catalyst A.I
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Discard your settings
Apply your settings
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Mipmap Detail Level
Adjust the Mipmap detail level
Apply your settings
Set the Mipmap detail level
Discard your settings
All Settings
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
2 Click All Settings
2 Click All Settings
2 Click All Settings
Set the Transparent Anti-Aliasing
2 Click All Settings
Set the Catalyst A.I. setting
2 Click All Settings 3 Scroll to Mipmap Detail Level
Set Wait for vertical refresh setting
Discard your settings
API Specific
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
2 Click API Specific
Set Support DXT texture formats for Direct 3D
Set Alternate pixel center for Direct 3D
2 Click API Specific
Apply your settings
Color
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Display Color page to configure Desktop
Color Desktop
2 Select Desktop from the Set color correction for drop-down menu
Set Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast simultaneously
Reactivate your color settings
Revert to last known All Channel settings
2 Select Desktop in Set color correction for 3 Select All Channels
2 Click Reactivate ATI color controls button
Restore default settings
Apply your settings
2 Click Defaults
Discard your settings
Display Color page to configure FullScreen 3D
Color - FullScreen 3D
Set Color Gamma
Set Color Contrast
Apply your settings
Avivo Video for Radeon X1000 Series
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
2 Click Standard Settings
Standard Settings
Select a Video Preset
2 Click Standard Settings
Restore default settings
Apply your settings
2 Click Defaults
Discard your settings
2 Click Adjustments
2 Click Adjustments
2 Click Adjustments
2 Click Adjustments
2 Click Defaults
Restore default settings
Discard your settings
Select an Overlay Display when in Clone Mode
Apply your settings
2 Click Theater Mode
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Apply your settings
Select a deinterlacing mode
Restore default settings
2 Click Defaults
Let the application control video adjustments
All Settings
2 Click All Settings 3 Scroll to Video Adjustments
Adjust Gamma
Adjust Saturation
2 Click All Settings 3 Scroll to Video Adjustments
2 Click All Settings 3 Scroll to Video Adjustments
Adjust Hue
2 Click All Settings 3 Scroll to Theater Mode Settings
3 Scroll to Overlay Display Mode
Select a deinterlacing mode
2 Click All Settings 3 Scroll to Deinterlacing
Restore default settings
VPU Recover
2 Click Defaults
Discard your settings
2 Click Enable VPU Recover
Enable VPU Recover
Prepare an error report
Restore default settings
Apply your settings
2 Click Defaults
Discard your settings
Discard your settings
Apply your settings
92 VPU Recover
Using TV Out
Using TV Display and Capture Features
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To connect S-Video Out
Using a Monitor vs. Using TV Display
Using a TV as the Only Display
Connecting to HDTV
Using Games and Applications
Viewing Text on a TV
Installing your ATI HDTV video cable
Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable
98 Connecting to HDTV
3 Are there specific CMOS motherboard settings for CrossFire?
CrossFire FAQ
4 Are there any software settings required for CrossFire to work?
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6 Which games/applications work with CrossFire?
5 How are the graphics cards connected on a CrossFire system?
7 Is a driver profile required to make CrossFire work?
11 On what basis are different rendering modes chosen?
12 What type of performance improvement is expected?
Reference
Troubleshooting
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General Troubleshooting
104 Troubleshooting
Problem
Possible Solution
Customer Care
Product Registration
HDTV/HDTV Adapter Troubleshooting
Problem
Access
Service
ati.com
Availability
Compliance Information
Additional Accessories
ati.com/online/accessories
FCC Compliance Information
Industry Canada Compliance Statement
Electrical Safety
CE Compliance Information
Informations de conformité de la CE
Compliance Information
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Directive Compliance
110 Compliance Information
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Glossary
Pulldown
Alternate Frame Rendering
Alpha Blending
Adaptive Anti-aliasing
Anti-aliasing
Anisotropic Filtering
Aspect
Aspect Ratio
Bilinear Filtering
Back Buffer
Bit Depth
Bitmap
Buffer
Brightness
Catalyst Control Center
Color Component
Composite Video
Component Video
Compositing Engine
Control Point
Direct 3D
Dashboard
DirectX
Dithering
Flat Shading
EDTV
Frame Buffer
Gamma
Frames Per Second
Gouraud Shading
HDCP
HydraVision
HDTV
HyperZ HD
KTX Buffer Region Extension
Keyframe Interpolation
Lighting
Mipmapping
OpenGL
Offscreen Memory
ATI Overdrive
Pipeline
PCI Express PCIe
Pixel
Refresh Rate
Scissor Mode
Resolution
Saturation
SCART
SECAM
SDTV
Shadow Mask
SmartShader HD
Super Anti-aliasing
Specular Highlight
SuperTiling
S-Video
Texel
Transition Minimized Differential Signaling TMDS
Texture Mapping
Texture Preference
Vector Adaptive Deinterlacing
Trilinear Filtering
VersaVision
Vertex Shader
VPU Recover
VGA Connector
Video Immersion
VideoShader HD
Z-buffer
1080i 56, 57, 120
Index
3Dc 111
480i 105, 120, 125 480p 105, 125
Aspect Ratio 57, 78, 83, 87
Clone Mode 42, 43, 82
Catalyst A.I. 58, 65, 90, 100
Catalyst Control Center 23, 24, 27, 30, 31, 99, 100, 101
CrossFire 99, 100, 101, 102
contrast 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 85, 104
CRT 4, 105, 116, 117
Customer Care 38, 103, 105, 106
Dot pitch 95, 117
Direct 3D 46, 70, 71, 72, 101, 113, 117, 124
DVD 4, 21, 116, 119 DVI 51, 52, 53
DVI-I 104
gamma 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80, 113
Extended Mode 42, 43, 44, 82
HDTV 95
Help 23, 27, 31, 38
Lighting 111, 112
Hue 54, 78, 80, 81, 86, 113, 120
NTSC 111, 118, 121
OpenGL 39, 46, 47, 70, 71, 121
PAL 122 PCI 122
Resolution 4, 23, 41, 48, 50, 53, 95, 104
Pipeline 100, 101 Pixel 72, 101
Saturation 54, 80, 81, 86, 113, 120
TV 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 94, 95
Theater Mode 78, 82, 83, 86
VCR 116, 119
Video 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 104
VGA 4
Windows 21, 23, 24, 105
Wizard 38, 78