Brief Hands-On Report--ATI Radeon Display Utilities v4.4 for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and Later
Requirements
- Mac OS X version 10.2.8 (Jaguar) or higher
- Power Macintosh Desktop Computer
- 128MB of system memory
- September 2004 ATI RADEON Universal ROM Update for full advanced feature-set
Supports
- RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION
- RADEON 9800 PRO MAC SPECIAL EDITION
- RADEON 9200 MAC EDITION
- RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION
- RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION
- RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION
- RADEON MAC EDITION (AGP & PCI)
Here are the release notes. Note that this utility now does support ATI OEM versions, including mobility versions, released by Apple.
We installed ATI Display 4.4 on our 17" PowerBook G4 with ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics and in our DP 2.0GHz Power Mac G5 with ATI Radeon 9600 Pro graphics. The utility is placed in a folder in the root Utilities folder and can also be accessed from a preference pane in the System Preferences application. In both Macs, ATI Display 4.4 only displays the Info and 3D windows. The latter is the most important feature because it allows the OpenGL settings in games to be overridden. We played Call of Duty with enhanced 2X FSAA(Super), 4X Anisotropic Filtering and Vertical Sync On and encountered no artifacts.
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