For those on windows(and with an Intel WiFi card) there is a hidden but an extremely useful feature - "project" can be used to turn any other windows PC/Laptop/Tablet into a second screen, just enable "cast to this PC" in settings, then from the host PC press Win+P from anywhere and the second machine becomes a secondary display instantly. To windows it appears as a normal display, without any hackery involved.
My small company spends thousands per year on TeamViewer licenses, just because RDP can not attach to running desktop sessions (using Nvidia graphics cards). Do you think this is something that could change in the future, or is it a fundamental property of RDP?
I really dislike our reliance on TeamViewer, especially now in covid times where were relying even more on remote access.
Can you use a RealVNC variant instead? I just replaced TeamViewer with UltraVNC single click for my remote support needs, it’s free, it’s branded with my logo and my clients find it easier to use.
I'm not sure, I think I've tried it but I don't remember what the result was. Note that our goal is decently fast (20fps+) 3d graphics.
I've also tried moonlight (which is an nvidia gamestream implementation), which seems to have performance but the client wasn't very usable for this usecase.
Oh, yeah it's probably not going to handle that too well. It's not really designed for full motion video. I tried running a game over it and only got a couple of FPS (although that's over an ancient USB WiFi dongle so modern performance might be better).
Still great for general productivity type stuff though!
RDP/termsrv by design create a new session for incoming connections. However, with Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), Windows Containers and Windows AppGuard, we definitely have a way of launching remote applications in an existing session.
Have you perhaps looked at WVD or RemoteApp? If you'd like to talk more professionally, you can email me at {first_name}.{last_name}@microsoft.com (my name is available on github.com/zeusk).
This might sound weird, but Steam allows you to stream your desktop for games and provides full control as well as stream of audio and video. Works on any device.
Wonder if it could help. Being targeted at games, it has great performance.
WebRTC is the way to the future of open source remote desktops. I don't know exactly by I have a strong feeling that google is using WebRTC for chrome remote desktop
I have trouble with RDP and a 1060, though I've not tried in many months so it might be something that has since been fixed.
The issue seemed to be switching between remote and local access, i.e using the machine locally, then from remote, then coming back to local. It would usually survive a couple of cycles of this then just be a black screen after login. Once in that state tricks to reboot the graphics driver did not work and reporting in speed working too, though the rest of the machine was up as services like IIS and file shares kept responding just fine.
My hacky solution is to run VM for most day-to-day work on that machine and remote to that, only using the bare metal when I need the fancy gfx card or otherwise the little bit of extra unpf gained by not having a virtualization layer in the mix.
Yeah I work at a games studio, we are fully remote at the moment due to covid, and disconnecting/reconnecting RDP usually crashes whatever is running on the machine at the time, due to "GPU removed" error. Also only DirectX applications work through RDP, nothing OpenGL/Vulkan based. We have some Citrix licences for that.
Are you talking about WiDi? I tried to use that on my 3gen i7 laptop. It was awful experience on Windows 7. Then I switched to Linux and never went back.
If I remember correctly, this feature is based on Miracast which means that it also works for most WiFi-enabled TVs.
Very useful for presentations, if the Intel drivers and TV manufacturer code have mercy on you that day and work without crashing, artefacts or random disconnects.
Does that ever work reliably? I've tried it on a number of different systems, and half the time it just does nothing, and when it does, the screen updating is quite choppy to the point of being unusable.
Similar here, my 5 year old laptop doesn't support it. I'm willing to accept lower performance if a nonaccelarated software route could be made to work
It feels trying to get troubleshooting for Windows is like shouting into the void, so I, as well as I think many others, have long since just given up.
I for instance bought "Assure Software Support" at $99 a year to try to get support for an unrelated (usb-c dock) issue. And there seemed to be no way to actually use it, and I just gave up, resentful that I paid Microsoft a support fee.
This. There doesn't seem to be a pricepoint which effective for getting both help, and information back inside Borgs (of all kinds) to actually effect change.
I had a problem at work with Microsoft X.509 certificate management. I even found the reasonably capable, actual decision-making person who did X.509 at a conference, and he was pretty clear: nothing I said to him there, or in any other forum was going to change pace inside the company on the problem at hand. (he did point out it affected the DoD so I was somewhat assured it was going to get fixed)
OTOH when it was pointed out how badly Microsofts TCP implementation behaved, they did make changes. So "it depends"
I’ve submitted plenty of detailed bug reports with zero response or just form replies, so I don’t waste my time shouting into the void anymore. Having an actual response that isn’t just “we appreciate your report and will have someone look into it” might help.
There should be a better way of reporting a bug on Windows than posting it on a public forum full of spam that is only accessible from a Metro app which does not come with LTSC.
To add, gpu accelerated, low to non cpu usage as well with recent drivers, unlike the 99% other solutions, no more whiney fans.
It reliably works with recent hardware only, you may see few performance profile options to choose from, that is an indication of HW accel.
The fact that this part isn't linked to from the "Cast to wireless display" section of settings is absurd. Win10 control panel is a mess. I actually made a real effort to find the setting. Your post was the only thing to point me in the right direction.
I could be mistaken, but I figured I'd point this out since it was my experience, the host PC must have wireless (context: I had a PC with only an ethernet connection, no wireless card).
It will take advantage of the ethernet connection, making for a more responsive experience, but however it is designed requires wireless even if the both computers are connected to ethernet.
I connected a usb wireless dongle and it did the trick for me.
It’s best used for desktop apps and things like PowerPoint. It starts to lose frames and have tearing when doing video. I doubt it would be acceptable for any gaming.
It works well enough, but it’s not going to satisfy people who are concerned with things like benchmarks and FPS.
Yep, it does - the underlying technology is based on Miracast and works only with Wifi adapters made by Intel because it's point-to-point. Sadly it doesn't work through an AP connection at all.
