Performance of Desktop Apps running in virtualized servers

Targets Windows
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I have a Desktop App running on a Windows server, accessed via Remote Desktop. When the app runs on a non-virtualized server or a regular PC, performance is reasonably fast. However, on a virtualized Windows server, it becomes significantly slower.

Is there a way to force software rendering to bypass dependency on the virtualized GPU?

Any suggestions to improve the performance of a Xojo app in virtualized environments?

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Allocate more vcpus. Allocate more memory. Get a dedicated server.

Remember, most virtualization is on shared servers where there are multiple tenants. To ensure quality for everyone, you only get the resources you pay for.

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Thanks @Greg_O.
In ma cese is it not a shared server, is a dedicated one.
What I noticed is that same server non-virtualized versus virtualized, running the same apolicatiin, the difference of performance is very important, and I what to know if there is any Xojo special compilation setup or any Xojo sentence or optimization that could help on performance on virtualized servers.

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Hello,
Is the GUI required? Minimizing the window makes it run much faster.

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As early as possible (e.g. App.Opening):
System.EnvironmentVariable("XOJO_D2D_SOFTWARE_RENDERING") = "True"

Or set this Environment Variable globally on that system, so that it’s set and available before you’re launching the Xojo built application.

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