Poor RemoteFX Performance

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I have Hyper-V running on an DELL Optiplex 9020MT Core i7 3.8GHz with 32GB RAM on Windows Server 2012 R2.

For testing purposes I enabled RemoteFX on the Intel HD 4600 graphics chip built in to the CPU.

I then added the RemoteFX adapter in an 8.1 Enterprise guest, and video performance is really bad.

A Windows 7 guest without any RemoteFX adapter with my Wyse RDP client works amazing it is really smooth.

Anything I have done wrong or should check? Or is ut simply a case of the Intel 4600 HD graphics being slower than emulated?

Best Answer

The Intel 4600 HD graphics chip is extremely underpowered for this application.

You need a graphics card specifically designed for remote desktop workloads that can render multiple desktops at once if you are using RemoteFX. The nVidia GRID and ATI FirePro are such cards.

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