RealVNC on XP Pro x64?

[James Weatherall]

Lionel,

The VNC Server binaries we currently provide are 32-bit binaries and as such
the standard update capture mechanism doesn't work for most apps running on
Win64.  The quickest workaround is to configure your VNC Server to poll for
updates, which will mean increased CPU usage by VNC Server, but will avoid
the update issues you are seeing.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Lionel Camara
> Sent: 29 August 2005 22:35
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RealVNC on XP Pro x64?
> 
> Does anybody have experience running RealVNC on Windows XP 
> Pro x64 Edition?
> 
> I've been running 3.3.7 on many of the office computers 
> without any problem
> (mostly XP Pro & 2000). We recently got a new computer with 
> x64 Edition.
> Using 3.3.7 the screen wasn't refreshing properly (only a small square
> around the cursor was being updated). To get the image 
> displayed I needed to
> either "Request screen refresh" from the menu, or "paint" the 
> area I wanted
> to see. Needless to say that got old quick.
> 
> I decided to try installing 4.1.1 to see if it was something 
> that was fixed,
> but now I can't even connect using that.
> 
> Server: XP Pro x64 - RealVNC Free Edition 4.1.1
> Client: XP Pro SP1 - RealVNC Viewer 4.1.1 (also running 3.3.7 service)
> 
> Is the 3.3.7 service messing things up? I wouldn't mind 
> upgrading, but if
> 4.1.1 won't help me with this I'd rather just stick with 3.3.7.
> 
> I don't have any experience w/ x64 before this, but we'll probably be
> getting it installed on any other new machines we get (until 
> Longhorn's
> released), so I'd like to get it working right before I have 
> more machines
> to deal with.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Lionel
> 
> ----------
> 
> Lionel Camara
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> 
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