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[bspachman]

When accessing my HTPC via an RDP or VNC client and I try to use Theater View, the remote screen (ie on my client) shows a black screen with the error "Error starting Direct3D engine (error finding compatible stencil buffer format)"

I've tried setting the various drawing quality options from Low->High in the Theater View options. All throw the same error.

Any thoughts on different MC configurations or RDP/VNC configurations I could try?

brad

[Chili-Jam]

Sorry but you're out of luck here. I'd like to do the same but it's simply not possible because 3D doesn't get rendered in a RDP connection. You can only avoid Theater View in this case.

[llafriel]

UltraVNC shows theaterview just fine. (although lots of graphics makes it slow) Films works too, don't ask about fps though..

[bspachman]

Good call on UltraVNC! It does NOT throw the Direct3D error in Theater View.



(Now to see if I can configure it to be as responsive as the baseline Microsoft RDC server and Mac client)

brad

[MrC]

Try JollysFastVNC as a Mac client.