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Jeff Mottle · November 19th, 2006

I often switch between working on my workstation (dual monitor) and accessing my workstation on my laptop via remote desktop. I find that that while I'm on the desktop itself video performace can get quite sluggish just minimizing and maximzing windows and switching between applications. Outlook and IE can be quite bad at times, locking up for minutes at a time. When I access those same applications on my laptop via remote desktop there is no lag and performance is quite good. (3D and video the exception for obvious reasons)

My question is if anyone knows that parts of the OS and/or video cards are different between the two that could be causing this. It strikes me that there must be something on my workstation I need to tweak.

Cheers,
Jeff

November 19th, 2006	#1 (permalink)
Jeff Mottle President/Founder Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Age: 33 Posts: 5,078 Name: Jeff Mottle	Video Performance - Workstation vs Remote Desktop I often switch between working on my workstation (dual monitor) and accessing my workstation on my laptop via remote desktop. I find that that while I'm on the desktop itself video performace can get quite sluggish just minimizing and maximzing windows and switching between applications. Outlook and IE can be quite bad at times, locking up for minutes at a time. When I access those same applications on my laptop via remote desktop there is no lag and performance is quite good. (3D and video the exception for obvious reasons) My question is if anyone knows that parts of the OS and/or video cards are different between the two that could be causing this. It strikes me that there must be something on my workstation I need to tweak. Cheers, Jeff __________________ Jeff Mottle CGarchitect.com