Remote Desktop

Saturday, 03/24/2007 -- by Neumann. Subject: Remote Desktop

Has anyone had any luck creating a remote desktop connection to a computer running ICD3? I use my private computer which I have just upgraded to a new machine with Vista installed. Since The Scala team have no intention of upgrading the software to be compatible with Vista (which is shipped on all new computers here in Denmark) I thought of using another computer on the network that is still running XP, and then work through remote desktop. But that doesn't work for me either. Are there any other obvious solution? Obviously I cant run 2 machines just to be able to service ICD3.

Saturday, 03/24/2007 -- by Marvin Droogsma. Subject:

You meen the native XP remote desktop? I have used tightVNC succesfully on ICD3

Monday, 03/26/2007 -- by Neumann. Subject: Remote desktop

Yes I mean the native XP Remote Desktop.

In the meantime I have discovered quite a few problems with Vista, which might make my decision of going back to XP more likely. Vista simply isn't ready for market yet.

Monday, 03/26/2007 -- by John Schilling. Subject: Comsumer-level machines are shipping iwth VISTA

Basically in most markets "Consumer Boxes" without requirements for hardware with complex device drivers are shipping with VISTA. Anything with "complex" HW is shipping with XP.

Corporate/Business systems are still shipping with XP--with some models available with VISTA for organizations without well disciplined/competent IT departments.

White box machines are still mostly shipping with XP--in The U.S., in Denmark, in Germany, in France, and in any other market where function and stability are important.

For machines that are shipping with VISTA--purchase the machine with VISTA Basic, buy an OEM copy of XP-Pro, wipe the hard disk drive and install XP. If you never run VISTA on a machine you can get a EURO 37,00 refund for "VISTA Home Basic". [or--simply accept giving Microsoft the VISTA 37 "gift" if you don't want to deal with the work getting the refund...]

--JSS

Monday, 03/26/2007 -- by John Schilling. Subject: Designer 3/5 can not function correctly with RDP

Applications that are DirectX based can not function correctly with RDP-clients.

VNC--without a "mirror driver" is the only viable remote control option.

For IC5--the DX9 "Software Render Library" is required to be in the DirectX application's directory.

--JSS

Monday, 03/26/2007 -- by Neumann. Subject: Remote Desktop

I can understand that Vista isn't ready for production. I have experienced other problems and has decided to run XP on my new computer.

But it harms me that Microsoft unleash a product that really isn't ready for market yet!

But I still want to be able to control ICD throgh remote desktop so that I can use ICD from various locations. And I can understand from Marvin Droogsma and John Schilling that the way to do that is by using tightVNC.

Thanks guys!

Monday, 03/26/2007 -- by John Schilling. Subject: All of the various "VNC" projects are useful

Currently the "UltraVNC" project--at revision 1.0.2--WITHOUT THE INSTALLATION OF THE "MIRROR" DRIVER! --is, in my view, the most useful of the various VNC's.

If using InfoChannel5 it is important to have the Microsoft "Software Rasterizer for the Microsoft DirectX 9.0"--available from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=57d03491-6c49-4429-bff7...

Regards,

--JSS

Wednesday, 03/28/2007 -- by Neumann. Subject: Remote desktop

Thanks John I'll look at it.

Wednesday, 03/28/2007 -- by Neumann. Subject: Remote desktop

It doesn't seem to be an option to leave out the mirror driver. What does the mirror driver do that makes it important to leave it out?

Wednesday, 03/28/2007 -- by John Schilling. Subject: The mirror driver is optional

The current VNC installer has an option to NOT install the Mirror driver. [check box under "what components to install"]

The problem is that while the "mirror driver" is an efficient way to trap/catch GDI function calls--that is graphical calls that perform standard windows desktop rendering operations--It does not have any real/adequate coverage of the DirectX API. So--screen updates/refresh operations--both "DirectX in a Window" and "DirectX-funscreens" do not work correctly.

--JSS

Tuesday, 04/03/2007 -- by Neumann. Subject:

Thanks.

I found it.

I can't make it work. But I'll try a little harder, when I get some more time.

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