Hi,
I have a wpf application that is being accessed via remote desktop over a low latency lan connection. We see that performance is very slow even when trying to run the devexpress demo application. Scrolling grids, resizing panels , and charts are all very very slow.
I've added an option to use use software rendering and that has helped, but was wondering if there is something else I can do to help increase performance.
Hi Jakup,
Please clarify if this issue can be reproduced with any WPF application or it's specific to our components. I suspect that this is a common WPF issue. If so, I suggest you follow the steps described in the Optimizing Visual Studio 2010 and WPF applications for Remote Desktop article. It describes a few methods that allow you to optimize your applications. Please try them and let me know if it solves the issue.
I apologize for the delayed response.
I have specially tested our demos using Remote Desktop and haven't noticed significant performance issues (see the attached screenshot). Of course, it's not as fast as when I run a demo on a local machine, but it's acceptable. Do you have different behavior on your side?
In the meantime, I should note that our developers have significantly improved the DXGrid's performance in version 14.1 (it's coming soon). After updating your components, scrolling in DXGrid will work much faster.
Thanks for the response.
We are remoting into a virtual machine using remoteFx. I suspect the vm isn't using any hardware acceleration (although remoteFx is supposed to offer this). If I specifically force the use of software rendering on the vm, scrolling is better but not as good as the demo posted above. I think remoting into a real machine will use hardware acceleration vs remoting into a virtual machine.
When is 14.1 being released?
It will be released in a month (most likely - in the beginning of June).
If you have further question, drop me a line.
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