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RemoteFX is something I had not heard of - will take a look!

deburo 6y ago
Do you even struggle with RDP when you're on the same network? We also have an R720 at work, running a Windows Server 2016 under Hyper-V and it performs very poorly (Windows UI is super slow, etc.). I know next to nothing about physical servers, but I've had great success swapping HDDs for SSDs in laptops to dramatically increase Windows' modern UI's performance. Our R720 has HDDs instead of SSDs, I've thought of upgrading them to see how it works out. If you ever find a solution, please let me know.
- whalesalad 6y ago
  Yes! I am having the same issue, but I have a mixture of old school 10k SAS disks and a bunch of desktop grade SATA SSDs. Windows performance on this machine is atrocious (virtualized in ESXI) whereas Linux is great.
zamadatix 6y ago
RemoteFX will enable both GPU acceleration in apps as well as GPU acceleration in the RDP session encode but... RDP is still only limited to 30 FPS for whatever reason and so you may continue to be disappointed in it. Also 1,300 Mbps sounds like a wireless network so your main problem on the network side is being half duplex and airtime delays (even from just beacons) not throughput. I'd pick a 100 Mbps hardwire to RDP on over any Wi-Fi setup as the video bandwidth isn't actually that helpful but jitter/latency are problems with trying to send inputs at the same time. Not much you can do about that though.
- gruez 6y ago
  Doesn't remote fx require special hardware/os on the host side?
  - zamadatix 6y ago
    Not really, OS wise it can't be Home edition but because Homedoesn't officially support hosting RDP at all. Hardware wise it requires basically "a gpu", even a low end decade old integrated Intel GPU will work.
    - gruez 6y ago
      Yeah my use case isn't really some sort of RDI farm, but just a way to access one of my existing machines which I also happen to use physically. For that use case RDP (without remotefx) works fine, but it doesn't look like setting up remotefx would be easy.
      - zamadatix 6y ago
        I think you might be reading about RemoteFX vGPU or something else in the RemoteFX family? If so that's a different thing than RemoteFX for RDP. The latter is literally just enabling a couple Group Policies in gpedit - otherwise it's exactly the same as running normal RDP.
        gruez 6y ago
        Which group policies are you talking about? Are they the policies for enabling AVC encoding? eg. https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.TerminalServer::TS_SERVER_AVC_HW_ENCODE_PREFERRED https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft... https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.TerminalServer::TS_SERVER_AVC444_MODE_PREFERRED https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft... https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.TerminalServer::TS_DX_USE_FULL_HWGPU https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft...
        zamadatix 6y ago
        Every nerd knob for RDP host configuration can be found under this tree in the group policy editor https://i.imgur.com/PtN0fNt.png https://i.imgur.com/PtN0fNt.png The 2 you need to enable to just enable RemoteFX are "Use hardware graphics adapters for all Remote Desktop Service sessions" to Enabled and "RemoteFX for Windows Server 2008 R2/Configure RemoteFX" to "Enabled". These 2 should net you GPU acceleration in the remote session. For GPU accelerated encoding you can also set "Configure H.264/AVC hardware encoding for Remote Desktop Connections" to "Enabled". Those 3 policies are all I usually tick but the rest of the policies in that tree are nerd knob tunables with many relating to bandwidth/resource utilization/image quality tradeoffs if that so interests you.

Do you even struggle with RDP when you're on the same network? We also have an R720 at work, running a Windows Server 2016 under Hyper-V and it performs very poorly (Windows UI is super slow, etc.). I know next to nothing about physical servers, but I've had great success swapping HDDs for SSDs in laptops to dramatically increase Windows' modern UI's performance. Our R720 has HDDs instead of SSDs, I've thought of upgrading them to see how it works out. If you ever find a solution, please let me know.

whalesalad 6y ago
Yes! I am having the same issue, but I have a mixture of old school 10k SAS disks and a bunch of desktop grade SATA SSDs. Windows performance on this machine is atrocious (virtualized in ESXI) whereas Linux is great.

zamadatix 6y ago

RemoteFX will enable both GPU acceleration in apps as well as GPU acceleration in the RDP session encode but... RDP is still only limited to 30 FPS for whatever reason and so you may continue to be disappointed in it. Also 1,300 Mbps sounds like a wireless network so your main problem on the network side is being half duplex and airtime delays (even from just beacons) not throughput. I'd pick a 100 Mbps hardwire to RDP on over any Wi-Fi setup as the video bandwidth isn't actually that helpful but jitter/latency are problems with trying to send inputs at the same time. Not much you can do about that though.

gruez 6y ago
Doesn't remote fx require special hardware/os on the host side?
- zamadatix 6y ago
  Not really, OS wise it can't be Home edition but because Homedoesn't officially support hosting RDP at all. Hardware wise it requires basically "a gpu", even a low end decade old integrated Intel GPU will work.
  - gruez 6y ago
    Yeah my use case isn't really some sort of RDI farm, but just a way to access one of my existing machines which I also happen to use physically. For that use case RDP (without remotefx) works fine, but it doesn't look like setting up remotefx would be easy.
    - zamadatix 6y ago
      I think you might be reading about RemoteFX vGPU or something else in the RemoteFX family? If so that's a different thing than RemoteFX for RDP. The latter is literally just enabling a couple Group Policies in gpedit - otherwise it's exactly the same as running normal RDP.
      - gruez 6y ago
        Which group policies are you talking about? Are they the policies for enabling AVC encoding? eg. https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.TerminalServer::TS_SERVER_AVC_HW_ENCODE_PREFERRED https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft... https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.TerminalServer::TS_SERVER_AVC444_MODE_PREFERRED https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft... https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft.Policies.TerminalServer::TS_DX_USE_FULL_HWGPU https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft...
        zamadatix 6y ago
        Every nerd knob for RDP host configuration can be found under this tree in the group policy editor https://i.imgur.com/PtN0fNt.png https://i.imgur.com/PtN0fNt.png The 2 you need to enable to just enable RemoteFX are "Use hardware graphics adapters for all Remote Desktop Service sessions" to Enabled and "RemoteFX for Windows Server 2008 R2/Configure RemoteFX" to "Enabled". These 2 should net you GPU acceleration in the remote session. For GPU accelerated encoding you can also set "Configure H.264/AVC hardware encoding for Remote Desktop Connections" to "Enabled". Those 3 policies are all I usually tick but the rest of the policies in that tree are nerd knob tunables with many relating to bandwidth/resource utilization/image quality tradeoffs if that so interests you.