Friday, 25 January 2013

Remote Desktop to Windows 8 VM with RemoteFX results in Black Screen

I will present the scenario where I found this issue but it could apply to other scenarios as well.

I have a Windows Server 2012 with a Windows 8 VM in Hyper-V. RemoteFX is enabled. If you have it disabled you will not encounter this problem.

You try to Remote Desktop to the Windows 8 machine. You enter your credentials and find only a black screen with the mouse cursor.

Solution: Install the latest drivers for the video card. In my case I have a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460. I downloaded the drivers available for Windows 8 and installed them in the Windows Server 2012. No more back screens.

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