Remote Desktop

Hi All... Is anyone working in Fusion 16 on Windows with Remote Desktop? Fusion launches but other than the window title bar everything is black. It looks like the interface might pop on for a quick second and then disappear.

We are on a shelter at place order for the time being so I working from home. If I connect to my work desktop with TeamViewer the interface works fine.

I'm guessing you're using Windows RDP. It has some problem with fusion that makes everything black.
Try Teamviewer, Splashtop or even Steam Remote Play together with this: https://github.com/tyami94/RemoteDesktop

We've been using RemotePC, which works pretty well. We used to use Teamviewer, but it's disallowed by some of our clients due to a vulnerability that was disclosed a couple of years ago. That hole was patched, but the clients still don't trust it.

Windows Remote Desktop can't pass an OpenGL image, which is why Fusion doesn't work with it. Some other remote access programs have similar problems. Steam Remote Play is a good choice to solve that problem because it's specifically designed to have access to the GPU image buffer. I've not used it, myself, but I've heard it's an adequate solution.

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We've been using RemotePC, which works pretty well. We used to use Teamviewer, but it's disallowed by some of our clients due to a vulnerability that was disclosed a couple of years ago. That hole was patched, but the clients still don't trust it.

Windows Remote Desktop can't pass an OpenGL image, which is why Fusion doesn't work with it. Some other remote access programs have similar problems. Steam Remote Play is a good choice to solve that problem because it's specifically designed to have access to the GPU image buffer. I've not used it, myself, but I've heard it's an adequate solution.

Interesting and many thanks for the explanation. For clarity and to make sure I understand... Does the current Fusion interface use OpenGL? Did the Fusion 7 interface not use OpenGL as it displays fine through Remote Desktop? I have not texted the versions between 7 and 16.

For the most part, with a few exceptions, we use TeamViewer. They rolled out 2-factor authentication after their hack a few years ago so we feel reasonably confident that it is secure.

I'm not 100% sure on how the view buffer works, but my understanding is that it started using OpenGL in Fusion 8, when the UI code was rebuilt. I could be entirely wrong about that, of course; I'm dredging up a half-remembered conversation from two or three years ago...

It's been OpenGL since 5.0. That's when the coordinate system changed so Y=0 was at the bottom.