For 4 years, I used a laptop to connect remotely to my desktop at the workplace. At home, I attached a large display to my laptop which has a graphics card. The text was a bit blurred, but still readable. However, positioning the mouse for editing text was rather difficult, so working from home didn't have the same productivity as working from office. I did mostly text editing, and it was quite cumbersome.
I recently got a desktop PC, as surplus hardware from the workplace. It is 5 year old, but has a large graphics card to drive two monitors. I upgraded both the desktop and the laptop to Windows 10.
To my surprise, the Remote Desktop Connection experience is much better with the desktop PC than with my laptop. I'm connecting to the same machine at the workplace, and I use the same monitor at home. With the desktop, there is no blurring of the text, and positioning the mouse is sharp and accurate. Working from home is now just as fast [ or slow-
] as working in the office.
I found a Microsoft publication which explains the improvements of the RDC protocol in Windows 10: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/01/11/remote-desktop-protocol-rdp-10-avch-264-improvements-in-windows-10-and-windows-server-2016-technical-preview/
I understand the improved experience relies on certain graphics capabilities, but this leaves me none the wiser for any future purchases. After all, my laptop also has a graphics card, admittedly a small one to fit into a 13" case. Assume I want to buy a computer, or just chose a new graphics card, in view of working from home. How would I know if it supports the AVC/H.264 codec and the other preconditions required by the new 4:4:4 compression for RDC ?
Has anyone tried "enabling" of AVC 444 as described in the article ?
I recently got a desktop PC, as surplus hardware from the workplace. It is 5 year old, but has a large graphics card to drive two monitors. I upgraded both the desktop and the laptop to Windows 10.
To my surprise, the Remote Desktop Connection experience is much better with the desktop PC than with my laptop. I'm connecting to the same machine at the workplace, and I use the same monitor at home. With the desktop, there is no blurring of the text, and positioning the mouse is sharp and accurate. Working from home is now just as fast [ or slow-
] as working in the office.I found a Microsoft publication which explains the improvements of the RDC protocol in Windows 10: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/01/11/remote-desktop-protocol-rdp-10-avch-264-improvements-in-windows-10-and-windows-server-2016-technical-preview/
I understand the improved experience relies on certain graphics capabilities, but this leaves me none the wiser for any future purchases. After all, my laptop also has a graphics card, admittedly a small one to fit into a 13" case. Assume I want to buy a computer, or just chose a new graphics card, in view of working from home. How would I know if it supports the AVC/H.264 codec and the other preconditions required by the new 4:4:4 compression for RDC ?
Has anyone tried "enabling" of AVC 444 as described in the article ?
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