3.31 – Hardware video acceleration

As of build 1075 in version 7.0, SparkView supports hardware video acceleration (via GPU/GPX). Acceleration can currently only be enabled over the RDP protocol for the following areas

• Desktop/Session Mode (no RemoteApp support yet)
• Session shadowing
• Session recording

To use hardware acceleration, you must have the latest version of SparkView installed and two group policies set on the server where Remote Desktop Services is installed and users have access.

The policies can be found at the following location:
Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → Remote Desktop Services → Remote Desktop Session Host → Remote Session Environment

The following two policies must be modified:

• Prioritize H.264/AVC 444 graphics mode for Remote Desktop Connections: Enable
• Configure compression for RemoteFX data: Enable und Do not use an RDP compression algorithm