ATI CATALYST CONTROL CENTER User Manual

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SWITCHING VIEWS:

The default configuration for the CATALYST

™

Control Center is the “Standard” view, which

gives users the ability to very easily configure

the most important settings of their ATI graphics

card. Pressing the View toolbar button will

switch users to the “Advanced” view, giving

users access to a significant number of features

and settings.

DESKTOP MANAGER:

When using the standard view it is highly

recommended that you press the “Wizard”

button to setup your display configuration.

When in the “Advanced” view, users have the

ability to configure their displays any way they

want. Right clicking on the icons in the

“Desktop #:” boxes will allow users to rotate,

swap display mapping, enable/disable displays,

clone, stretch horizontally and stretch vertically

across two displays, as well as access display

properties. Users can also drag and drop

displays back and forth between the “Desktop

#:” and “Additional Displays” boxes. To enable

extended desktop, click on the 2nd display box

within the display arrangement section.

3D SETTINGS:

The “Standard” view offers a single slider that

adjusts a number of advanced features that

effect overall 3D performance and quality shown

within the 3D preview. The “Advanced” view

allows users to adjust a number of 3D settings

such as anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering etc.

There is also a “No preview” section that

contains all of the 3D settings within a single

page (note that the “Wait for display refresh”

setting is only located in the “No preview”

page). Also note that all of the 3D settings are

now applied to both OpenGL and Direct3D

applications. Users no longer have to specify

different settings for different APIs.

HOTKEYS:

Clicking on the “Hotkeys” button will launch the

hotkey manager, which allows users to setup

hotkeys for a number of functions found within

the CATALYST™Control Center. An example of

how to setup a hotkey has been provided below:

1. Launch the Hotkey Manager by pressing the

“Hotkeys” button within the toolbar.

2. Ensure that “Enable Hotkeys feature” is

checked.

3. Select “RADEON®graphics accelerator” under

“List Hotkeys for” option.

4. Scroll down until you see the “Pause/Resume

3D Preview” option and either double click on

the text or click the mouse once (this will

high-light the line in red) on the text and press

the “Edit…” button

5. Specify the key combination that will activate

the function (in this case “Pause/resume 3D

Preview”), and press okay

6. Press Okay on the main page of the

Hotkey Manager

7. Go to the 3D area of ACE, and press the new

hotkey combination to pause the preview, and

again to resume.

PROFILE MANAGER:

Clicking the “Profiles” button will launch the

profile manager, which allows users to save all of

their CATALYST™Control Settings into a profile.

Users may also decide the manner in which to

launch the profile (hotkey, desktop shortcut, etc.)

as well as whether they’d like to associate an

application with that profile, which will

automatically launch an application the same

time the profile is activated. An example of how

to create a profile has been provided below:

1. Launch the Profile Manager by pressing the

“Profiles” button within the toolbar.

2. Enter the name of the profile within the “Enter

or select a profile name” field.

3. Add a description in the “Profile description”

field if you’d like.