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Anyone using remotefx with either windows server 2008 or 2012?

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juno77

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Heya guys I'm having trouble getting diablo 3 to have good fps in remotefx. I'm currently using windows server 2012 r2 datacenter and a vm of windows 8.1 enterprise. I've successfully loaded remotefx onto my windows 8.1 enterprise vm but my fps goes up and down between 15-30 fps and is rarely steady.

I've read a lot of comments of people running with their remotefx vm with 60 fps. I'm not sure how, are you guys using remote desktop service from windows or something else? I'm using a gtx 780 as my video card on the host and installed the latest geforce driver on it
 
I've been remote botting using my work site as my main botting farm. We have a fiber connection there which I have setup V P N access for myself which has been running smoothly for almost a year now. I originally tried RDP and came to the conclusion VNC shits all over it for this sort of thing. You can port forward VNC if need be and change video quality to reduce bandwidth usage. Setting this sort of thing helps when you're the one and only IT personnel at the site. I've setup some unused laptops and a desktop behind our server rack so no one can see it.

Remote botting is very cost efficient as I was able to use the spare laptops there and no need to pay for electricity. It also isolates your botting farm from your home IP address :)
 
Could you go over a step by step of how to do this so I can try to do this for myself?
 
Well first thing is you download and register a the free version of Real VNC and play around with that. If you have never used it just do a youtube video search and there will be a video of some guy showing how it works.
 
Not sure what I'm doing wrong but using real VNC 4.6.3 enterprise trial makes it really choppy for me. The screen freezes when I try loading up d3
 
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Heya Defqon, thanks a lot for recommending Real VNC, I really appreciate the low bandwidth it takes. I just have one question though, why is it producing less FPS than if I were to use RDP?

Oh and what do you think about the other following solutions:

Teradici Arch
teamviewer
splashtop 2
Ericom's remoting protocol
 
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I've used teamviewer as well which has similar performance to VNC however I didn't like teamviewer as it required you to go through their authentication system 1st. Remember when remote botting or using some sort of remote access you're not meant to be playing the game this way. It's only used to manage the bot such as muling items, starting / stopping bot etc.

Are you running your VNC through your own LAN or are you connecting to a work site? If I run mine through just within my home LAN the latency and quality is excellent of couse but if I'm connecting to work I lower the video settings and latency is still very good and i get a ~20ms ping to my work network through V P N.
 
Yeah I am hosting the VMs on the same rig that I am connecting them to. The connection I think as far as response is concerned is more responsive than RDC that windows offers but the overall FPS for whatever reason is lowered say from 40ish fps with using windows RDC with lan experience compared to realVNC to about 20 fps.

I really like how responsive realVNC is and how little bandwidth it takes, I just wish I could generate more fps with it.
 
Also how did you manage to forward the 5900 port for realVNC for all your VMs? My cisco e1200 router would only let me forward 1 vm/IP
 
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Also how did you manage to forward the 5900 port for realVNC for all your VMs? My cisco e1200 router would only let me forward 1 vm/IP
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If you're accessing you're VM's on a public IP externally then you have to use a different port for each VM.

eg:

VM 1 port 5900
VM 2 port 5901
VM 3 port 5902
etc

To change the VNC ports, right click on the VNC icon on the bottom right hand side of your screen and select options, then go to the Connections section. Here you can change the default port. Make sure you forward all the ports that you're going to use.

As for the FPS through the LAN mine is actually quite good, running it through the internet it does drop off a bit however I don't care as it's not like i play D3 through VNC.
 
Alright thanks a bunch.

Had no idea about being able to change what ports vnc used. Helps a lot.

As far as FPS I have a huge problem when trying to use more and more VMs, obviously that's a hardware limitation but I feel like I should be able to do more than what I'm currently doing.

Here are my specs:

X9DA7 supermicro mobo
dual e5-2665 cpu
1600 ddr3 kingston ecc 8x8 ram
1 tb ssd
gtx 780 6gb

Currently I am only able to pump out 17 vms with 2 core, 30 gb storage, 2 gigs ram, 256 dedicated vram each vm, windows 7 32 bit sp1 with latest updates

In hyper-v cpu utilization for each vm is never above 5%, so that should theoretically be 20 vms max right?

I notice huge fps drop between 6-9+ vms like single digit fps, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

I also notice each vm hd is actually only 15.5 gigs while inside the vm it's 30gb total, does this have anything to do with it?

Also should I let the system handle page filing or should I limit it to 2gb? If I have an ssd in the case for vms wouldn't it be better to have as much page filing as the vm allows?
 
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You have a fairly beefy system there however just from a quick glance and can see a couple things that might cause the FPS issues. I've tried running my D3 instances on 2GB RAM and it just didn't cut it. I think one of your bottle necks might be the RAM per VM. I run mine with 4GB. Also in regards to your graphics try lowering the graphics setting to a minimal and see how you go.

The page file system is automatically set according to how much RAM is allocated to the VM. Leave it as it is because it sounds to me like the VM is starved of RAM which then starts writing to the page file system slowing down the entire system. The page file system is only used when the system has no more free RAM to use.
 
Alright, I'll try all those tomorrow and will report back with results. Also the task manager in windows server 2012 is not the actual utilization of the whole pc right? So if within task manager for windows server 2012 if it says I'm only using 10-15% cpu and 40 gigs of ram, that's not a reflection of my vms is it?
 
Are you using VMware or Hyper-V? If you've opened up the task manager on your host those usages include both your host and vm stats in as one however if you open up task manager within a vm it only shows the usages for that particular vm.
 
I'm using windows server 2012 r2 datacenter and hyper-v. Idk I have about 17 vms running with 5% cpu utilization each, so that should be about 75% total cpu usage right? But in my windows server 2012 task manager it says only 15% of my cpu is being used. and the only ram being used is majority from remotefx driver or whatever that address is called I forget


Also I can use remotefx with vmware?
 
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