User manual TYAN TACHYON

[. . . ] TACHYON Series Graphics Cards User's Guide Revision 4. 0 Copyright Notice The material in this document is the intellectual property of TYAN. While we take every care in the preparation of this document, we cannot guarantee the correctness of all the content. Our products undergo continual improvement and we reserve the right to make changes without notice. Trademarks All Trademarks and Registered Trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners. VGA is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. [. . . ] On the Settings tab, click and drag the appropriate monitor icon to the desired position. For example, the secondary display can be dragged to the left of the primary display, allowing it to be virtually on the left, as shown below. 2. Click OK or Apply to save the changes. http://www. tyan. com 19 Radiometric Expansion The Tachyon series cards offer radiometric expansion (or digital panel scaling as it is commonly known). This expands a low-resolution image to fill a higher resolution panel. However, radiometric expansion is only available on the Primary display. Therefore, if a flat panel display (FPD) is set as Secondary, the Extended Desktop mode is disabled and the resolution is less than the FPD's native resolution. This causes the FPD to default to center mode. 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. 20 Tachyon Graphics Card Chapter 4 CATALYSTTM Software Suite Desktop Brightness ATI Color Tab This increases or decreases the brightness of your desktop. The higher the gamma value, the higher the brightness of your display. This adjusts the selected color (red, green or blue check button) by moving the color curve with your mouse. This allows you to reset the desktop brightness and color settings to default values. Color Curve Game Gamma button Defaults button Clicking the Game Gamma button accesses the Game Gamma Properties. Game Gamma Properties These controls allow you to increase or decrease the color brightness of Direct 3D and OpenGL games played in fullscreen mode. (NOTE: Game Gamma is NOT supported in Windows® NT4. 0) Uncheck this to adjust the RGB sliders individually. Check this to adjust all three sliders at the same time. This allows you to reset the Game Gamma settings to default values. Red Green Blue sliders RGB Lock Defaults button http://www. tyan. com 21 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 Version Information Details button Reactivate all warning messages Enable ATI taskbar icon application Show ATI icon on Provides the CATALYSTTM version number, 2D version number and the driver build information. Provides access to the Details tab, which lists the card's hardware details and driver information. This allows you to reactivate any disabled graphics warning messages. Unchecking this allows you to disable the ATI taskbar applications and removes the ATI icon from your system tray. Unchecking this allows you to remove the ATI icon from your system tray without disabling the ATI icon applications. 22 Tachyon Graphics Card Chapter 4 CATALYSTTM Software Suite taskbar Disable quick resolution feature Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolutio n Alternate DVI Operational mode Quick resolution feature is accessible by left clicking the ATI icon in the system tray. Checking this option disables the feature. Resolves display corruption or no image at high resolutions (for example 1280x1024 @ 75Hz) using a digital DVI display. (This setting has no effect when using a DVI-to-VGA adapter) Use this option if you are experiencing display corruption on your DVI flat panel. Clicking the Details button provides access to the Details tab. ATI Overlay Tab The ATI Overlay tab allows you to configure the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and gamma properties of your video overlay. Video Overlay Video overlay allows for the viewing of full-motion video on your PC. [. . . ] (you can also use F8 to bring up the Microsoft Windows® Startup Menu. ) In Safe Mode, bring up the Device Manager and check for duplicate display adapter and monitor entries if you are only using one graphics card. For more assistance, use the Troubleshooting Guide located in the Windows® Help or contact your computer manufacturer. To contact TYAN for assistance, you can send e-mail to TACHYON@TYAN. COM, or visit us on the website at HTTP://WWW. TYAN. COM. To upgrade the Tachyon Graphics Card Driver, you can download it from the website at: HTTP://WWW. TYAN. COM/SUPPORT/HTML/DRIVERS_GC. HTML 44 Tachyon Graphics Card Appendix 2 ---Acronyms Appendix 2 --- Acronyms Standard acronyms used in the literature are presumed known and will not be explained. When in doubt, the reader can refer to the following table for a quick check. Acronym AGP ATPG ATSC BGA BIOS BIST bpp CRC CRT D3D DAC DDC DDR DFP DPM DTV DVI DVS EPROM FIFO HDTV I 2C DCT JTAG Full Expression Accelerated Graphics Port Automatic Test Pattern Generation Advanced Television Systems Committee Ball Grid Array Basic Input Output System. [. . . ]