RDP Again - What is the best choice for the situation...

[aidanjt]

Yep there's pretty much no chance of playing any sort of 3D game simply because your GPU (on the host) will be not be used in the RDP (or other remote access) session, and without that there's not a hope in hell of it working.

There's that, and the fact that 3D APIs don't translate through remote links, nobody has even bothered trying because the latency involved is far too high for 3D acceleration.

[ahuman]

ARgh.

Well I guess 3d gaming is out of the question, but still, is there anything that is either faster than MS's RDP or equivalent? Someone mentioned UltraVNC and I'll look into it, but it would be nice to get sound too. Is there anything out there? Did anyone ever use Radmin 2.2?

[aidanjt]

X11 and esound architectures on unix (linux) might do what you want, but it wont work on windows, and it's a tad complex to set up.

[BlackDwarf]

I use MS's RDP on my LAN to remote access my server when needs-be. Its like being at the computer!?

And yeah, do yourself a favour and get out of the stone-age with Win 9x. XP post SP2 was the most stable OS I've ever used (not including OS X of course ). I'm using Vista now... I can't understand how it takes someone 3 years to understand how to use an OS. There isn't THAT much to it......

[TheAnimus]

I can't understand how you can understand 98SE, in a year. A horrific hodge podge of legacy technologies. 386 enhanced knowledge anyone? Hmm botching round extended memory management fun.

Take NT (2k,XP,Vista) its very straight forward by comparison, and easy to get to grips with, as there is much less backwards compatability stuff, you don't even have to know a thing about DOS.

[funnelhead]

ARgh.

Someone mentioned UltraVNC

The name is funnelhead. You're welcome.