User`s guide

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CHARISMA ENGINE
™
II is a transform and lighting technology
which controls changing shapes and lighting while maintaining fast 3D
game performance
PIXEL TAPESTRY
™
II uses six independent texture units per
rendering pipeline giving highly realistic and detailed 3D graphics.
VIDEO IMMERSION
™
II incorporates MPEG-2 decoding,
adaptive de-interlacing, and frame rate conversion.
These features make it possible to quickly render 3D graphics,
produce atmospheric effects, calculate light and color shading,
and determine which objects are in the foreground and which
are in the background.
RADEON
8500 MAC EDITION only displays 3D graphics in
thousands and millions of colors. When you use 256 colors,
there are too few colors to display complex 3D textures, so 3D
acceleration is not supported.
You can use the 3D Memory Monitor in the ATI Displays
control panel to see how memory on your
RADEON 8500 MAC
EDITION
is allocated when displaying 3D graphics. This allows
you to optimize 3D performance.
The 3D Memory Monitor is only supported in Mac OS 9.
NOTE