Remote Desktop and OpenCL

[SamT]

Hi Forum,

Has anyone had any experience with remote desktop and Photoscan? I am accessing a workstation from a laptop using Microsoft RDP and I cannot see my GPU in the OpenCL tab. I can however when I plug in a monitor. I think this is because RDP uses its own driver.

I have tried screen scraping with VNC which works but the performance is pretty average.

If anyone could help me out that would be great.

Cheers,

Sam

EDIT: I will try HP RGS

[rival29]

Sam, try using chrome with the chrome remote desktop extension. It works beautifully. It uses a VP8 codec to stream a live video feed of the remote computer. The advantage to this method is that you system will behave normally, video cards will be initialized normally as well as OpenCL. However, other people can see what your doing on the remote screen. So turn the monitors off if you want privacy still.

[SamT]

Thanks rival29. That's a great idea! I'll test it out tonight.

Cheers,

Sam

[Wishgranter]

fastest and easiest app is the Team Viewer - . VNC is very slow.....

[SamT]

Thanks for the help guys.

I ended up using Teamviewer because I could not get Chrome Remote Desktop to work over LAN. Teamviewer just needed a couple of settings changed as it is not enabled by default.  Performance seems pretty good and OpenCL is accessible.

Cheers!

[ikercito]

My vote goes for Teamviewer too. I even have it on my mobile phone. Works wonders!

[ARF]

When using remote desktop or similar programs I've got a problem because agisoft doesn't show up the available GPU's.  I guess it's because they aren't being used for remote desktop.

Currently I need to start the processing locally at the computer.  Then I can login in remotely and complete the processing.

Is there a workaround for this?

[Marcel]

If you have an on-board GPU, does your PCI graphics card have priority in the BIOS?

I know some Bitcoin miners use a DVI dummy plug to trick the GPU into thinking a screen is attached. All I have seen is home made versions, if you find a commercial one please let me know.

(Note that I contacted Teamviewer about a screenless Windows PC defaulting to 640x480 pixel resolution, and their advice was also to use a DVI dummy plug).

[ARF]

Interesting. Thanks for the help.  Tea viewer seems to do the trick. 

[Ingsayyad]

I'm trying to access PhotoScan from remote desktop connection.  i can start PhotoScan but it took so long to open a project and then 'no response'. I cann't do any thing.
I just want to know if there is any known issue.

I 'm connecting to computer (see fig)


my Agisoft version is 1.1.6 build  2038
I have reinstalled it again and again but  no success.

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Ingsayyad,

The problem might be related to the visualization issue, if you are trying to open big mesh in the Model view.

I can suggest to use TeamViewer instead of Remote Desktop, since it will also allow to use OpenCL devices of the remote computer for computations.