Hi Folks,

I'm trying to run a setup with 3 computers, where two have a single GPU and
the other has two GPUs. I want to connect 3 monitors to the machine having
two GPUs, and use RDP to connect to and display back from the other two
computers. This works very well, and I really like not having to use a KVM
to switch between machines.

However, when I do this, I note that BOINC looses sight of the GPU and pauses
GPU processing. I believe this is probably due to Windows 7 routing the
display to the RDP session, and for some reason shutting down the GPU on the
remote machines. This is a real problem.

So, I've done a search through the sight for references to RDP and Remote Desktop, but havne't found much other than a single message that touched
on Remote Desktop in passing. Do any of you good folks on this forum have
have any ideas or methods for forcing the GPU to stay active during the RDP
sessions? Or any better search strings to use in mining the forum archives?

Thanks,

William Epperly

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"Remote Desktop" is incompatible with any GPU computing because Microsoft decided to use (switch to) another generic (old) video driver during RDP
and this way disables the installed video driver which supports the GPU computing.

You have to use something like TeamViewer, LogMeIn, VNC which don't play with the video driver.

(for search you have to try "Advanced search" on 1 year period

Or search in Google this way:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Remote+Desktop+site%3Asetiathome.berkeley.edu
)

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Hi Bilbg,

Very much appreciate your response. I have tested with a couple of the
utilities mentioned, VNC and TeamViewer. Both of these do seem to solve
my issue with losing the GPU, but each has a couple of issues of their
own. I think I can over come these smaller issues by adjusting various
config parameters.

Thanks for the link.

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