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So if you're using Steam streaming and the session switches to the secure desktop due to a UAC prompt, what happens... does the screen just go blank (a la VNC),
by yrro 7y ago
So if you're using Steam streaming and the session switches to the secure desktop due to a UAC prompt, what happens... does the screen just go blank (a la VNC), leaving the remote user locked out?
- mikewhy 7y agoJust tried. If you're already streaming, it manages to show you the prompt, but there's no way to interact with it. The mouse moves (both on the host and client), but clicks don't go through. Keyboard navigation doesn't work either. If you try to stream something that first pops up UAC, the client just sits there waiting for it to be dealt with on the host.
- jandrese 7y agoSteam streaming always manages to feel half baked to me for reasons like this. Another is that it needs to unlock your screen before it can be used. So you either leave your computer unlocked, or you need to VNC into it to unlock the screen so Steam streaming works. Every time I do that I think there must be a better way.
- Faark 7y agoYeah, i often control my machine via RDP and then streaming a game from there is a pain. Here is some script I've found to unlock the local pc, disconnecting RDP in the process: > @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "$sessionid=((quser $env:USERNAME | select -Skip 1) -split '\s+')[2]; tscon $sessionid /dest:console" 2> UnlockErrors.logpp I've not used it often and mostly given up on Steams streaming stuff. Playing simple stuff though RDP directly usually works well enough for the few times I still did that. Notably pretty much all games launch flawlessly. The drawback is it not being optimized for games, offering a notably worse performance on that front.