ATI Technologies HD2600XT - Radeon 512MB Pcie, CATALYST Control Center User Manual

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

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

4. Ensure that the “Composition” tab is been

selected (found on the lower half of the

Profiles Manager page)

5. Ensure that the “RADEON

accelerator” has a check in front of it. Next,

press the “+” check box to expand the list of

settings to be included in the profile. By

default what ever section of the CATALYST

Control Center you were using when the Profile

Manager is launched will be automatically

included in the profile. If you’d like to include

more setting in the profile, just check the

other areas of the CATALYST

settings you’d like to add to the profile.

6. Next press the “Activation” tab to determine

how you’d like to activate the profile. You

can enable the profile through the system

|tray menu, a user assigned hotkey, the

“Profiles” toolbar, or from a user-defined

desktop shortcut.

7. You may optionally load an application

whenever the profile is activated. First check

the “opens the following application, file or

shortcut” option then press the “…” button,

which will allow you to browse for the

application you’d like to start when the

profile is loaded.

8. Finally save the profile by pressing the

“Save” button.

9. To modify a profile, you first must adjust the

settings within the CATALYST

you want modify within the profile. Then

launch the Profile Manager and modify one of

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