xServe 2008 10.9.4 Factory Graphics

[Ricky Smith]

Alright so I have an xServe running 10.9.4 all the updates. I know that hardware acceleration isn't supported with a monitor attached. But from what I could find as long as you're using it as a headless system (Remote Desktop) you're fine.

Now I've noticed with Remote Desktop or VNC before on other OS X systems that it's horribly sluggish much like I'm experiencing now. But I want to verify if this is just a remote connection issue or could be because of the graphics card even though I'm connected via RD. I tried both VNC and RD and the mouse hardly keeps up and is slow as hell. It's on the local network both machines are hardwired.

 

[Altemose]

Alright so I have an xServe running 10.9.4 all the updates. I know that hardware acceleration isn't supported with a monitor attached. But from what I could find as long as you're using it as a headless system (Remote Desktop) you're fine.

Now I've noticed with Remote Desktop or VNC before on other OS X systems that it's horribly sluggish much like I'm experiencing now. But I want to verify if this is just a remote connection issue or could be because of the graphics card even though I'm connected via RD. I tried both VNC and RD and the mouse hardly keeps up and is slow as hell. It's on the local network both machines are hardwired.

Remote Desktop does have some lag and latency. It is far from unusable though.

 

[Ricky Smith]

Once I put the new card in Remote Desktop became more useable but still slow

 

[Altemose]

Once I put the new card in Remote Desktop became more useable but still slow

Well. Remote Desktop will never be the same as a directly connected monitor. The reason it got better was since the graphics load was taken off the CPU and placed on the GPU when you got a good card in there.

 

[Intell]

Apple Remote Desktop works best when the quality is set to 75%. What is your quality currently set at?

 

[Ricky Smith]

I've tried all the way down to black and white. I understand RD will never be as good as a local display. It seems useable now. But always found windows RDC to be far less lag

 

[Intell]

What resolution are you using it at and over what kind of a network?

 

[crazzyeddie]

This won't work with the xServe GPU, but if you find something similar, it might solve your issues:

http://blog.macsales.com/25997-head...new-solution-to-old-problem?APC=XLR8YourMac13