Desktop Transporter Help
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Optimizing performance
There are several ways for you to increase performance when using
Desktop Transporter. The optimizations mainly fall into two categories:
Decreasing the amount of data sent over the network, and decreasing
processor usage on the Macintosh sharing displays (leaving more time
for the applications on the sharing computer to do their work).
Decreasing bandwidth usage
The following optimizations will decrease bandwidth usage:
- Share
your display as grayscale instead of thousands or millions of colors
(you can change
this on the fly)
- Make
sure compression is enabled
- Change
the shared display to a lower resolution
Lowering processor usage
These optimizations will decrease processor usage, possibly improving
update latency:
- Make
sure that the display is shared with the same number of colors as it is
actually displaying (ie, if your display is currently running with
millions of colors, you should share it using millions of colors as
well). This does not apply to Grayscale; for grayscale mode, you should
have your screen set to millions of colors.
- Disable
compression. This has a very low impact on performance, and the
benefits are not great. You risk severly increasing bandwidth usage by
doing this, but if network performance is not an issue, it might be
worthwhile - especially when you are attempting to watch
quickly-changing content (such as an animation, a movie or a game).