Hi,
We have developed a WPF application which we want to host on Remote Desktop (Windows Server 2012 R2) for several of our clients. While testing performance we found that it was very poor in comparison to running the application on a desktop computer.
We know this is due to the lack of a GPU on the server, so Remote FX might be a (albeit expensive) solution to our problem.
However, while further testing, we found a surprising and significant improvement in performance after installing Visual Studio 2015 on our Windows Server. So much of an improvement in fact, that we wouldn't need any further GPU hardware to offer a good
performing solution to our clients. I'm talking 5-10 times faster loading and response times for our application.
The problem is, we don't want to go installing Visual Studio on the terminal servers of all our clients, but just the package necessary for the performance gain. After installing Visual Studio, we started uninstalling every component it installs through
'Programs & Features', to pinpoint the one responsible for the gain in performance, but even when the last component was uninstalled, the performance was still improved. If we reverted to a snapshot before installing Visual Studio on the server, the performance
gain was lost again.
In other words, we have no idea what caused the improvement gain, but we would like to find out so it would make our installations easier. It could be a package, or a registry change, or ...
If anyone has any idea, please help us out :)
PS: I've already used our Silver Partner benefits to ask the same question, opened up a support incident, but they just send me from Technical Support, to General Support, to Technical PreSales Support and back to Technical Support... Noone seems to be able to give me an answer to this question.