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I have a server running Windows 2008 Enterprise with the following specs:
Dual Xeon E5-2670, 96GB, 2x480GB SSD
2.66GHz / 3.3GHz Turbo, 1Gbit Port
16 Cores / 32 threads
I am using this server for browser task automation (via Python) and found that it runs very slow. Rendering simply pages with images takes a long time and FPS when watching videos is also very low.
I have tried with both latest versions Firefox and Chrome and get the same problems and although I think RDP is causing some of the issues - I am confident it is not the main cause, since the Python code running on the server itself also runs very slow when automating any browser based tasks.
If anyone has any advice on what could be changed to make browser run smoother (Win2008 features, software, changes, etc), it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Thanks for that. Although I couldn't disable it for the OS itself (as it does not allow display changes when accessing via RPD on 2008), I was able to disable hardware acceleration for the browser itself. It didn't make much difference so I guess its down to the minimum video capability issue you mentioned. Do you know of any other solution please, or alternatively are there any dedicated servers which can support better video capability? Thanks again for the help. – Exam Orph – 2018-02-22T12:59:11.347