VNC on Vista

Question

I'm using UltraVNC on my Vista machine, and it's giving me very poor performance, even over a 300 mbs network. It seems to be doing screen polling.

I looked, and it doesn't look like the video hook driver is working. Does anyone know if you can use a video hook driver with Vista?

Which version of UltraVNC are you using? I recommend 1.0.5.6 — stukelly, May 08 '09 at 17:46
Just out of curiosity, why bother with VNC when you've got RDP out of the box on Vista? There are basic RDP clients for just about every platform these days. — Ryan Bolger, May 09 '09 at 16:08
Also note that if you _do_ want to run RDP on Vista Home, there is a way: http://serverfault.com/questions/6944/remote-desktop-to-vista-home-premium-pcs — Sam Schutte, May 14 '09 at 16:56

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 21 '12 at 08:32

Yes you can install the video hook driver on Vista, but you have to do it manually.

To improve speed, right click on the UltraVNC icon on the taskbar and select properties. Then tick the following boxes:

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If you are using the video hook driver, check if the Video Hook Driver option is ticked.

Then press OK to save the new settings.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '09 at 17:36

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Are you using the UltraVNC Video Driver? The latest is 1.0.5:

-Adam

answered May 08 '09 at 17:36

Adam Davis

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