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RemoteFX On NVIDIA Lower Cost Video Cards

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http://serverfault.com – I am looking into a Windows Server 2008 SP1 with RemoteFX enabled, however I do not want to buy one of the NVIDIA Quadro $1000+ video cards to do it (as only a small number of users will be using virtual machines). I would like to use one of the Geforce cards (I was looking at the 560 Ti or the 570). I have heard that there are people that have modified the INF driver files for the Geforce cards to get them to work with RemoteFX, but I can't find any information on this. I would like to see some proof before heading out to buy one of the cards to test :) Any help would be greatly appreciated (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 05/07/2012 – Made popular on 05/07/2012

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