remote connections to a computer

disneyjoe7

Is video card accelerator determined by the host computer, or the remote computer?

AudioGenics

probably specific to the hardware in question

see this definition....

in early computers Video hardware can be integrated on the mainboard / motherboard (expansion slot)

newer computers have video card with required hard driver installed

saw this ad :
new NVIDIA® Quadro® Plex 2200 S4 Visual Computing System (VCS),
the world's fastest 3D accelerator for remote graphics visualization and rendering.

disneyjoe7

Sorry let's add to this...

I'm remote connecting to a network computer, when I connect to it, it displays this "Hardware acceleration is either disabled or not supported by your video card driver...". I do believe its the video card which is part of the mother board, by why does it matter? It's not using it, or is it?

vlam

What remote desktop software are you using? Are you using something like VNC? I believe if you are using Windows RDP, it will use it's own video driver and it's not hardware specific.

disneyjoe7

The remote computer is win 7 32 bit, the one I look to it is my laptop win XP pro.

mmadden28

The video hardware/drivers used will be the one you are are physically looking at--Everything else is just digital data being transmitted across a medium-granted there will be data compression and such, but that has nothing to do with the video drivers at that point.
Just like Cable TV--The video hardware, etc is in your cable box and the TV, not at the cable company.
Although, with Remote KVM, there will be some limitations to what you can do n the remote computer that are limited by the hardware on the remote computer, and some of those lmitations do stem from the remote video hardware.

disneyjoe7

So what you're saying in another terms.

Is the remote computer looks for drivers, but then sends data over the net. Right? And being so then the remote computer needs a good video card. I put an ATI chip card in this computer, but I need to figure out what the drives need.

Sami

In a windows machine, it's most of the time the host card. Remote connections are not the strong suite of Windows OS which is designed to be used in a standalone machines. What exactly are you trying to do with it?

AudioGenics

check this out for ati drivers

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

disneyjoe7

Sami wrote: »

What exactly are you trying to do with it?

I use it for some report of my network, but I like the Win7 software for a game of FreeCell. :eek:


It's just a game, I like too play with.


But I'm learning something new also.

Sami

LOL, you can't get freecell on your XP?

If you like the Win7 Freecell better, I don't know if it is the same as Vista version but here's something anyways: http://jonnyw1989.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/windows-vista-games-for-xp-update/

mmadden28

There is nothing wrong with Windows Remote Desktop, if you're are having any performance issues, just tune the settings. Dsiable any visual stuff such as background, and animated cursors. And if yuo don't need it, disable connections to the printers and sound cards, etc. It the network that becomes more of a bottleneck than the video card.
Remote KVM type stuff is not intended for any heavy graphical stuff anyway--definitely no heavy gaming--but Freecell is certainly not heavy gaming.

disneyjoe7

It's the way it moves the card to another card, you can drag it over. But now if the remote computer doesn't do the "Hardware acceleration" you need to click one card then click when you what it.

It's F'ing STUDID XP does this crap, Ubuntu spilled me... FreeCell game is really fun on it. Win 7 is not bad I give it a close 2nd nice under the ubuntu game.


But all in all I got $0.00 into this computer, now if I can get this video card to work it would be really nice. But this card is old how old don't know, old for sure I had it in a spare card box for years now.

Sami

Are you dual-booting to XP and Ubuntu or do you have that Ubuntu machine running somewhere in the network? With *nix the remote connections are much better and easier. You could run that Freecell from the Ubuntu machine in XP without using a remote desktop.

disneyjoe7

Sami wrote: »

Are you dual-booting to XP and Ubuntu or do you have that Ubuntu machine running somewhere in the network? With *nix the remote connections are much better and easier. You could run that Freecell from the Ubuntu machine in XP without using a remote desktop.

My laptop is a dual boot machine with XP pro and Ubuntu.


I never tried running Freecell in windows from linux / Ubuntu.


Edited

Found this file

C:\UBCD4Win\BartPE\I386|SYSTEM32\FREECELL.EXE


Ran this file sure enough a FreeCell game but looks and acts as if windows?

Sami

disneyjoe7 wrote: »

C:\UBCD4Win\BartPE\I386|SYSTEM32\FREECELL.EXE


Ran this file sure enough a FreeCell game but looks and acts as if windows?

It's a Windows game from UBCD4WIN which is a boot CD. Here's Win7 desktop running Freecell from Ubuntu:

disneyjoe7

Sami,

Sorry I can't make out the picture, I think you're trying to give me a 1000 word reply.

Sami

You need to have the Ubuntu machine running, then you can access it by SSH. I have several machines here running Ubuntu, one desktop and a few servers. Sometimes I need to access GUI programs on the servers and that's when I use Xming and SSH.

SSH and X Windows is a much better way of remote access, I wish someday it would also come to MS Windows. SSH I can do to a Windows machine but I have not tried running any GUI's through it as I don't think it will work.