User Guide

ADOBE ATMOSPHERE 207

User Guide

[1002] - ATI Technologies chipsets

This line, for example, identiﬁ es a video chipset containing a chipset manufactured by ATI. If the line starts with two

slashes it is disabled, otherwise it is enabled.

3 Try to locate your video chipset in the ﬁ le (if you do not know what chipset you have, see the next paragraph). If

there is a line for your chipset, but it is disabled, remove the two slashes, save the ﬁ le and relaunch Atmosphere. If

there is no entry for your chipset, then you will have to add a line.

4 Atmosphere recognizes your chipset from two numbers, the Vendor ID and the Device ID. If you do not see

your video chipset in the list, you will have to look up the numbers for your chipset and enter them in the

conﬁ guration ﬁ le.

5 Download the DirectX Caps Viewer from http://www.microsoft.com/, unzip it and run it.

6 In the DirectX Caps Viewer, there is a tree view on the left. The name of your video chipset appears under the

heading “DirectX Graphics Adapters”. Try to ﬁ nd this name in the AtmoHWConﬁ g.txt ﬁ le. If it is present but

disabled, remove the two slashes, save the ﬁ le and relaunch Atmosphere.

7 If the chipset is not listed, click on the video chipset name that appears under “DirectX Graphics Adapters.” In the

right pane, you will see see two items, “VendorId” and “DeviceId” among others.

8 Note the characters of the VendorId ﬁ eld that appear after the 0x and leading zeroes: for example, it’s 1002 for a

VendorID of 0x00001002.

9 Note the characters of the DeviceId ﬁ eld that appear after the 0x and leading zeroes: for example, it’s 10d for a

DeviceId of 0x0000010d.

10 Check the AtmoHWConﬁ g.txt ﬁ le for a line that lists your vendor. If your vendor is there, add a line like this

under the vendor name:

(tab)xxxx – description

Where (tab) means press the tab key once, xxxx is the last digits of the DeviceId and description is any text that helps

you remember the entry–Atmosphere ignores the description. Save the ﬁ le and relaunch Atmosphere.

11 If your vendor is not listed, add two lines to the end of the ﬁ le AtmoHWConﬁ g.txt ﬁ le like this: