Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful in trying to get a Performance Rating in Windows 8, I would just receive the following error while trying to 'Rate this computer' This article is intended to help these people be able to re-provide a great desktop experience by utilizing Hyper-V's RemoteFX feature.Ī virtual machine on which you will be performing tests via RDP.īefore we go ahead and do all the good stuff, let's take a look at the performance of a Windows 8 Workstation which has been given 1 GB RAM and a single vCPU (yes, I'm stingy) on top of a Windows 2012 Hyper-V Server. Thing is - most organizations are retiring their physical servers running Remote Desktop, and replacing them with bigger, beefier servers which are becoming part of Hyper-V clusters and they're now running Virtual Servers to provide the Remote Desktop solutions. Lack of sound? You probably should have remembered to enable the Windows Audio service! So, take the same server, chuck in a reasonably decent graphics card, and play the same video - then voilà! Brilliant display. Of course, the solution to this is to add a GPU. That's because the server isn't designed for multimedia, and the graphics card is a built-in bog standard one with virtually no hardware acceleration. Performance is poor and choppy, despite you having a gigabit connection to the server. Try it! RDP to a physical Windows 2012 Server, and try to play a 720p video. Of course, RemoteFX does rely on the underlying hardware to make things a bit zippy, but when you're delivering content through a server which generally has a poor graphics card, then the performance isn't that great. You could even stream a 720p video without RDP skipping a beat - how cool is that? With the advent of Windows 2012 and Windows 8, RDP has gotten a whole lot better due to the fact that RDP now uses even more RemoteFX technologies to make desktop sessions a lot smoother, faster and feature rich. RemoteFX is already in use today, but you're probably not aware of it.

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