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Use the Catalyst™ Control Center to fine-tune your graphics settings, enable or disable connected display devices, and change the orientation of your desktop. Many of the features show you a preview of the changes before they are applied. The Catalyst™ Control Center offers you two views of the software: • Standard View is a simplified view that includes wizards to get the inexperience user up and running. • Advance View allows the advanced user to access and configure the complete feature set o

512-bit Ring Bus Memory Controller • Programmable intelligent arbitration logic. • New fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs. • Hierarchal Z-buffer with Early Z test. • Lossless Z Compression (up to 48.1) • Fast Z-Buffer Clear. • Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering. • Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions. Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine • Support for Microsoft ® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable ve

In Desktop mode, clicking on this with your mouse pointer will change the image. Hotkeys button Opens the Color Hotkeys Settings dialog. There you can assign hotkeys for adjusting your color settings within a full screen 3D application environment. To activate this button, you must select the Full Screen 3D radio button. Defaults button Restores all of the color settings to the default values. Click Apply or OK to save. ATI Color Tab To create a Desktop or Full Screen 3D profile 1 Choose either

The CATALYST Software Suite installs the ATI display tabs. These tabs are accessed through the Windows® Display Control Panel, through the Advanced... button located on the Settings tab. For a detailed explanation of each ATI tab, refer to the section CATALYST Software Suite on page 7. Direct 3D and OpenGL The CATALYST Software Suite also supports the latest versions of Direct 3D and OpenGL. Many new 3D game titles, and the latest versions of older titles, will virtually come to life as they uti

Hue Use this slider to adjust the pureness or tint of the red, green and blue components of the color. Gamma Use this slider to adjust the overall intensity of the video image. Defaults This allows you to reset the Overlay settings to default button values. Direct 3D® Control Panel Using this tab, gamers can tweak the settings of their 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

This option allows you to select how the application should handle both features at the same time. In most cases Error Diffusion will handle this situation quite well, but there are a few cases where selecting Ordered may be necessary Support KTX buffer region extension Defaults button Enabling this feature allows rapid updates of those portions of your screen that have changed. Note that most applications will not be affected by activating this feature This button allows you to reset the OpenGL

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Products may not be exactly as shown. Features, performance, and specifications may vary depending on operating environment and are subject to change without notice. Copyright © ATI Technologies Inc. 2000. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada Using Video In Capture full motion or still image video Your new RADEON™ graphics card has Video In (also known as Composite In) capability for capturi

Fog Term used to describe the blending of an object using a fixed color as objects are made to appear more distant from the viewer. Frame Buffer The portion of the memory buffer on the graphics card used to store the image being displayed. All rendering processes have been accomplished by 127 this stage and this buffer contains only a one-to-one relationship of the data 127 this stage and this buffer contains only a one-to-one relationship of the data to be relayed to the display. Frames Per Sec

Load/Unload MultiDesk—This button restores or removes multiple desktop functionality. .. NOTE: Unload applies to your current Windows®98SE/Windows® Me session only. When Windows®SE/Windows® Me restarts, MultiDesk will reload. Individual Application Settings—This button allows you to specify, enable and disable desktop management settings for individual applications. .. NOTE: These settings override the global settings defined in the Desktop Management dialog. 16 RADEON™ VE User’s Guide Hot Keys