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Re:Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret abou... by chrisjsmith on Friday June 03, 2011 @12:51PM (#2617052)
Yeah tried that. Didn't make much difference. I think the main issue with the Quadro's was the poor quality of drivers more than anything else. Even the WHQL ones are junk.

VMware - forget it - unusable. All our infrastructure is VMware based and we have to do remote debugging on VM's via RDP. Yuck. I think when RDP is used it falls back to a GDI+ backend as HW accelerated primitives cannot be thrown down an RDP link and then uses tiles (as you state).

This is all down to the fact that RDP came before DWM. If it was the other way around we'd be throwing surfaces down the wire which would be nice.

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Re:Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret abou... by edandersen on Sunday June 05, 2011 @09:34PM (#2623366)
>> This is all down to the fact that RDP came before DWM. If it was the other way around we'd be throwing surfaces down the wire which would be nice.

The joke here is that on Vista to Vista RDP connections (.NET 3.0), WPF was properly remoted over the wire and rendered on the client machine instead of bitmaps being sent. This was removed in .NET 3.5. (http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=216)

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