User manual ATI FIREGL V5000

[. . . ] FireGL V5000 TM User's Guide P/N 137-50053-10 ii Copyright © 2004, ATI Technologies Inc. ATI and ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. [. . . ] Changing the brightness adjusts the vertical position of the color curve. Increases or decreases the color contrast of your Desktop or full-screen 3D application. The color image indicates visually how the Gamma, Brightness and Contrast sliders affect the final color settings of your display device. In Desktop mode, clicking on this with your mouse pointer will change the image. 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. The color curve indicates mathematically how the Gamma, Brightness and Contrast sliders affect the final color settings of your display device. Delete button All Colors checkbox Red, Green, and Blue radio buttons Gamma slider Brightness slider Contrast slide Reset buttons Color preview box Hotkeys button Defaults button Color Curve box 22 ATI Color Tab To create a Desktop or Full Screen 3D profile 1 2 3 4 Choose either the Desktop or Full Screen 3D radio button, as desired. Adjust the Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast sliders to the desired settings, either individually or using the All Colors checkbox. Click Save. To apply the settings for a specific Desktop profile 1 2 3 Choose the Desktop radio button. Click Apply or OK. To apply the settings for a Full Screen 3D profile 1 2 3 4 Choose the Full Screen 3D radio button. Start your 3D application in full-screen mode. Hotkeys Some 3D applications automatically load their own color settings rather than those set through the ATI Color tab. To use custom settings, you can preconfigure hotkey combinations to either adjust the individual color properties or apply profiles you have created, once the 3D application is running. ATI Color Tab 23 The Color Hotkeys Settings dialog To access the Color Hotkeys Settings dialog 1 2 Select the Full Screen 3D radio button. Click the Hotkeys button to access the Color Hotkeys Settings dialog. The easiest way to apply your own color settings from within a full screen 3D application is to create a Full Screen 3D profile and save it, assign hotkeys for the "Load Current Profile" action through the Hotkeys dialog, make sure that the profile you prefer is selected from the drop-down list box, and click OK. Once inside the 3D application, use the hotkeys to trigger the profile. Some 3D applications allow you to switch easily between full-screen mode and windowed mode and do not load their own color settings. In windowed mode, you can make slider adjustments or select a different profile on the Color tab, then switch back to full-screen mode to see the effects immediately. 24 ATI Options Tab ATI Options Tab The ATI Options tab provides detailed driver information and access to your graphics card's versioning and specifications. You can also enable or disable the ATI taskbar icon from this dialog. The Options Tab ATI Options Tab Version Information Details button Reactivate all warning messages Enable ATI taskbar icon application Shows the driver build version. Gives access to the Details tab, which lists the card's hardware details and driver information. Reactivates any disabled graphics warning messages. Enables/disables the ATI taskbar applications and removes the ATI icon from your system tray. ATI Rotation Tab 25 ATI Options Tab Show ATI icon on taskbar Disable quick resolution feature Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution Alternate DVI operational mode Removes/replaces the ATI icon from the system tray without disabling the ATI icon applications. The quick resolution feature is accessible by left-clicking the ATI icon in the system tray. Resolves display corruption or no image at high resolutions (for example 1280x1024 @75Hz) using a digital DVI display. Use this option if you are experiencing display corruption on your DVI flat panel display. ATI Rotation Tab Use the Rotation tab to rotate the image on your display up to 180 degrees. [. . . ] These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: · Re-orient or relocate the receiving antenna. 40 Compliance Information · Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. [. . . ]