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