Remote Desktop issue

[All Terrain Venomoth]

I don't know if there's a way to resolve it, but if the machine you're trying to connect to was previously logged into with Remote Desktop, the result will be a silent failure to stream. It'll act like it's streaming, but it'll be black.

Ideally there'd be a way for it to solve this, either by letting people log in locally or something, or if that's not possible, provide an error stating what happened.

[Zenon]

Gah, thanks for pointing that out!

I was trying to stream to my laptop with a RDC to my host system open (or previously open) as well.

All I ended up getting was a blank screen with the option to display streaming stats. Thought it might of been a driver issue or something.

[Half Alife]

This is normal, because when you use RDP, the graphics card cannot use DirectX. Try to start a game over RDP, you will get some nice errors. This is why streaming will not work either.

[testman]

VNC master race here.
I wanted to see if this problem also appears with VNC.
I started streaming with active VNC connection, and stream worked just fine, but VNC connection was closed.

[All Terrain Venomoth]

Originally posted by Half Alife:

This is normal, because when you use RDP, the graphics card cannot use DirectX. Try to start a game over RDP, you will get some nice errors. This is why streaming will not work either.

I understand why it happens, but the system should provide an error when it does, or have a way to resolve it (by logging back in locally to restore the video card). The main issue is that even if there is no active RDP connection to the PC, the PC will still be in an "RDP" mode until someone logs into it locally to reactivate the video card driver.

Originally posted by Norc:

VNC master race here.
I wanted to see if this problem also appears with VNC.
I started streaming with active VNC connection, and stream worked just fine, but VNC connection was closed.

Yeah unfortunately VNC is really unusable in many scenarios. RDP is a much faster and stable protocol for slow (read: cellular) connections.

[FractaL]

Has anyone found any workarounds for this? I dislike having to go down into the basement to log back in to my machine to come back upstairs to play games. ... call me lazy. :)

[wrathchild67]

Instead of disconnecting from the RDP session, run this command from the commandline on the machine you're connected to: tscon 0 /dest:console

You may need to change 0 to 1 or 2 for it to work. It's typically 1 for Windows Vista and 1 or 2 with WIndows 8. What this does is it unlocks the screen at the remote machine.

[GodsBane]

i made a batch script to redirect output back to the monitor of my windows 7 machine when i am done instead of just disconnecting. it's pretty simple:

tscon 1 /dest:console

Then i run i just right click --> run as admin and it redirects back to the monitor and disconnects the session. This may also require you connect using /console or /admin. In windows xp you need to use 0 instead of 1.

[FractaL]

Yay! Smart people! :)

tscon 2 did the trick as I'm on 8.1. This page is one of the first results on my google search, so hopefully this will help someone else who has the same issue. I used to have a few batch files for Windows 7, but I'm still new to 8 (and now 8.1).

Thanks very much!

[noah_sama]

tscon is not on my system for some reason. Has some update removed it?