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I would like to set up a single PC for multiple users to use apps like photoshop for photography processing.

I've tried giving other users access to my pc via remote desktop, but that approach didn't work. Here's why:

  1. Windows Remote Desktop does not support accelerated image processing via GPU

  2. There is a slight but very annoying delay when working through WRD, even when accessing the computer via LAN

  3. Some of the users tried to use graphical tablets, for example Wacom Cintiq x15 and have found, that it is impossible to work in this manner because WRD does not transfer all the points in the curves they draw; as a result, the curves look more like polygons. This problem remains with various WRD settings.

What would be the best remote access software for this purpose?

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Questions with "best" in the title usually aren't good questions. You should have seen a big red warning when you posted this. However, you have a definite list of requirements so asking which software meets these is OK. – ChrisF Jan 14 at 17:41
This is a poorly constructed question. Fundamentally this is not a software but rather a hardware problem. For example working through a LAN will always be slower than working locally, a problem that no software can solve. – JonnyBoats Jan 14 at 17:56
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Remote Desktop can do some GPU acceleration via RemoteFX, but you need Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate on the host. Quite honestly, with your requirements - particularly the tablet support - what you want isn't possible with anything I've ever seen. – afrazier Jan 14 at 19:45
what kind of lan? 10/100 or gig-e? – Journeyman Geek Jan 16 at 13:59
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You can calculate yourself why whis is not possible.

Imagine a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, I think for working with graphics applications this is a fair asumption, more likely too small than too big. Now every pixel has something around 6 byte of color information, and every image has to be calculated around 30 times per second. Without any compression you would have to transfer around 350MB per second through your network. With the help of compression and a lower framerate this value can be brought down to better results, but compression and decompression takes time (causes lag).

The way I would solve this would be network mounts, where the software is installed on the server but runs on the users machine. I don't have any experience with these only know that it works pretty well at my university.

I am not sure if it is legal to share the use of photoshop or similar software in this way, unless you have a multi-user license or something similar.

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This is why thin clients can be a pain in the rear. Local resources are just too powerful to be simply ignored. – surfasb Jan 14 at 20:58
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Try techinline remote desktop.

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Could you elaborate on what makes that particular product worthwhile for the OP's needs? Nothing I see indicates that it does anything the OP asks for. (Never mind comparing it against its real competition like TeamViewer, RAdmin, WebEx, RDP, VNC, etc.) – afrazier Jan 16 at 20:50
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