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Settings for use with Win8?

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BuddyRich
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Settings for use with Win8?

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I am using Win 8 retail and 1.1.1.0 uVNC.

It works but even though I am through Gigabit LAN I am getting weird performance issues with KB more than anything else.

Long pauses before I can start to type in input boxes. Mousing around, changing tasks, apps, etc. seem to work OK.

Of note, Win8 can't turn off Aero and I am noticing large memory usage (though not really CPU) with DWM.exe (Desktop Windows Manager). So I guess I need some advice on how to configure it for decent perf. within a home LAN env.

Other than install, do I have to do anything to use the w8hook dll addon?
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Re: Settings for use with Win8?

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I'm having the same keyboard issue in Windows 8 with 1.1.1.0 uVNC. It sometimes locks up on mouse clicks as well, but it's generally just randomly accepting or not accepting keyboard input.
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Re: Settings for use with Win8?

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under investigation
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Re: Settings for use with Win8?

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It's also starting to give some random disconnects unrelated to kb/m inputs. I've tried RealVNC server, and it doesn't have any of the keyboard or disconnect issues, but it does seem much slower than uVNC 1.1.* with Win8. Obviously neither are quite as fast as RDP, but I'd prefer not to have to deal with the local log on/off requirement it has.
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Re: Settings for use with Win8?

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looks like I spoke too soon about RealVNC, it refuses to refresh the screen, forced to disconnect and reconnect. Did not have that issue with uVNC fortunately.
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Re: Settings for use with Win8?

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check done...
There are several issue's with the keyboard.

*wrong timeout, this cause the keyboard to disconnect -> video only
*ctrl key is set ON when viewer connect, keys doesn't work before pressing ctrl
*possible null pointer can crash the server
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Still testing as it require several fixes.
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Re: Settings for use with Win8?

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Should be fixed with version 1.1.2
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