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ATI Technologies X1950 XTX Using the Radeon® X1950 XTX with CrossFire™, CHAPTER 7:, CrossFire™ Overview, CrossFire™ Rendering Modes, Allowable CrossFire™ System Components

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CHAPTER 7:

Using the Radeon® X1950 XTX with CrossFire™

The Radeon® X1950 XTX can be used as a Slave graphics card in a CrossFire™ system.

For the full system requirements necessary to put together a working CrossFire™ system, see the CrossFire™ FAQ.

CrossFire™ Overview

This section provides an overview of the main features and configurations for CrossFire™. These topics will be covered in more detail in other chapters of this manual.

Allowable CrossFire™ System Components

The basic requirements of a CrossFire™ system are a CrossFire™ certified motherboard with two PCI Express® x16 slots, a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card, and a compatible CrossFire™ Compatible graphics card.

A CrossFire™ Edition graphics card works with all members of the same brand-family. Thus a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card can be used with any Radeon® X1950 product.

For an up-to-date listing of CrossFire™ certified motherboards, see:

ati.com/crossfire

CrossFire™ Rendering Modes

A CrossFire™ system has four possible display modes:

•SuperTiling

•Scissor Mode

•Alternate Frame Rendering

•Super Anti-aliasing.

Contents

Page Page Page Page Table of Contents Using TV Display and Capture Features Using the Radeon® X1950 XTX with CrossFire™ Glossary CHAPTER 1: Introduction VideoShader™ 512-bitRing Bus Memory Controller Ultra-ThreadedShader Engine High Dynamic Range (HDR) Rendering System Requirements ati.com/crossfire Before You Begin Before you begin installing your new graphics card, please do the following Record Your Serial and Part Numbers Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers To uninstall previous drivers 2Navigate to the Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs Add/Remove Page CHAPTER 2: Installing Hardware Installing the graphics card 1Turn off the computer, monitor, and other peripheral devices WARNING 3Remove the computer cover If necessary, consult your computer’s manual for help in removing the cover Connecting Devices Page CHAPTER 3: Using Multiple Displays • Refer to your Windows online help and documentation for further information on using the Settings tab When you use multiple monitors with your card, one monitor will always be Display Configurations Page CHAPTER 4: Installing Software and Drivers Run the ATISETUP a)Click the Start button in the task bar b)Click Run Monitor Configuration Warning To configure your primary display Properties Advanced To set up a multi-monitordisplay 3Click Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor Reinstalling Drivers ATI Easy Install Next Installing the Catalyst™ Software Suite To install the Catalyst™ software suite Page Page CHAPTER 5: Catalyst™ Control Center Video To access the Video aspect Video Display Options Force TV Detection Color Display the Color aspect Color Monitor Properties Component Video Properties Digital Panel Properties Force Hotkeys Manager To access Hotkeys Manager Hotkeys Preferences To access Preferences Preferences Access CrossFire™ CrossFire Enable CrossFire™ Page Page CHAPTER 6: Using TV Display and Capture Features Using a Monitor vs. Using TV Display Viewing Text on a TV Using a TV as the Only Display Using Games and Applications Connecting to HDTV Note: Input and output cables lengths should not exceed 50 feet (15m) Installing your ATI HDTV video cable 1Turn on your component input device, and set it to YPbPr input Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable Page CHAPTER 7: Using the Radeon® X1950 XTX with CrossFire™ SuperTiling Scissor Mode Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) Mode Super Anti-aliasingMode Page Page Page CHAPTER 8: CrossFire™ FAQ 5Which slot does the CrossFire™ Master card go into on the motherboard 6Are there any software settings required for CrossFire™ to work Enable CrossFire What is the difference between a CrossFire 8How are the graphics cards connected on a CrossFire™ system 9Which games/applications work with CrossFire™ 10Is a driver profile required to make CrossFire™ work What happens if you pair a two CrossFire What happens if the CrossFire 15How many independent displays can be connected to a CrossFire™ system Page CHAPTER 9: Reference Page Page Page Product Registration To activate Customer Care you must register your product with ATI at: ati.com/online/registration Customer Care ati.com Additional Accessories ati.com/online/accessories Compliance Information This section details the compliance information for this product FCC Compliance Information Industry Canada Compliance Statement CE Compliance Information Informations de conformité de la CE Electrical Safety Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance Page CHAPTER 10: Glossary Adaptive Anti-aliasing AGP Alpha Blending Alternate Frame Rendering Anisotropic Filtering Anti-aliasing Aspect Aspect Ratio Avivo™ Color Back Buffer Bilinear Filtering Bit Depth Bitmap Brightness Buffer Catalyst™ Control Center Color Component Color Correction Component Video Composite Video Compositing Engine Control Point CRT Dashboard Direct 3D® DirectX Dithering Dot pitch DVI EDTV Flat Shading Fog Frame Buffer Frames Per Second Gamma Gouraud Shading HDCP HDMI™ HDTV Hue HydraVision™ HyperZ™ HD Keyframe Interpolation KTX Buffer Region Extension Lighting Mipmapping NTSC Offscreen Memory OpenGL® ATI Overdrive PAL PCI PCI Express® (PCIe™) Pipeline Pixel Refresh Rate Rendering Resolution Saturation SCART Scissor Mode SDTV SECAM Shadow Mask SmoothVision™ HD Specular Highlight Super Anti-aliasing SuperTiling S-Video Texel Texture Mapping Texture Preference Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) Trilinear Filtering Vector Adaptive Deinterlacing VersaVision™ Vertex Shader Vertex shader units VGA Connector Video Immersion™ VideoShader™ HD VPU Recover YPbPr Z-buffer Page Index 3D 23, 36, 37, 39, 46, 51, 52, 59, 68, 74 3Dc 59 Anti-aliasing 24, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 60, 61, 73 brightness 23, 50, 61, 63, 67 Catalyst Control Center 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 36, 44, 45, 46, 52 Color 17, 23, 39, 50 CrossFire 4, 23, 24, 35, 38, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52 CrossFire Edition 4, 24, 35, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46 Direct 3D 22, 61, 65, 72 Dot pitch 31, 65, 73 dot pitch 31 driver installation 15 drivers DVD 4, 15, 51, 64, 67 DVI 13, 24, 44, 46, 51, 52 DVI-I 13, 44, 46, 50, 51 gamma 23, 39, 61 GPU 36, 37, 38, 39 HDTV 31 Help 17, 21 Hue 61, 68 Master graphics card 4, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 51, 64 motherboard 4, 24, 35, 44, 51 NTSC 59, 66, 69 OpenGL 22, 69 PAL 70 Resolution 4, 17, 31, 40, 50 Scissor Mode 35, 37, 38, 39, 72 SuperTiling 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 TV 21, 23, 30, 31 VCR 64, 67 VGA 4, 13 Video 22, 50, 52 Windows 15, 17, 18, 53 YPbPr 13, 53, 64