RadEdit

RadEdit is a nifty utility that can come in handy to all those who want to customize some of the data displayed within the BIOS of their ATI video card. They might want to do this when they want to switch to a different PAL/NTSC TV standard or when they want to overclock their cards.

You only need to find a suitable app for flashing the BIOS - nonetheless, creating a backup is highly recommended before you go ahead and start tampering with any of the details.

Alternatively, you can also browse the web for BIOS images, then experiment with tweaking their settings. In order to any of the loaded ROMs to be efficiently processed, they need to belong to compatible ATI video cards.

Due to RadEdit, you get the possibility to customize the core and memory frequency, as well as the TV standard, fonts or checksums.

The application allows you to alter a wide range of values, such as the memory timings, the refresh rate or the TV initialization standard. You can also choose to enable unsupported TV standards or to synchronize clocks.

RadEdit can also come in handy to users who want to examine the real core clock and memory clock values, as well as the effective memory clock.

You can also analyze the fonts or load a different set of 8x8 or 8x16 of DOS fonts or CPI files. The current ones can be saved to a standalone package, so you can restore them in case anything goes wrong with the custom ones.

RadEdit can be of use when it comes to tweaking BIOS images, yet this can also lead to damages or unwanted consequence, so it is only PC experts who should be relying on its features.