win10 IE high CPU usage - GPU card can help?

[JavierBernal]

Hi,

We are using Horizon 7.7 and win 10 VDI desktops. Users experience performance issues every now and then. It seems to be related to IE high CPU consumption especially when playing HTML5 videos (brightcove player). We are thinking about putting a NVIDIA card in the servers and configuring Virtual Shared Pass-Through Graphics Acceleration. NVIDIA Tesla P4 is the card compatible with our servers we can use.

My concern is that I am not sure if IE will benefit from the graphic card. In this article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2528233/how-to-enable-or-disable-software-rendering-in-inte... says that IE will do software rendering instead of GPU rendering if it is launched in a remote desktop session.

Do you know if this applies to PCOIP or Blast sessions?

Did you have any similar performance issues with IE where a GPU card helped?

Thanks,

Javier

[vJoeG]

Since the Brightcove produces HTML5 content have you thought about using the HTML5 redirection which would send the content to the endpoint to be rendered there? What are your users connect to the VDI environment with? Thin/Zero clients or workstations/laptops with any GPU's available?

[JavierBernal]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your response. Users won't have GPUs available, most of them will connect from Dell wyse clients.

I thought about HTML5 redirection but it seems to be supported only for Edge and Chrome. Is there any way to configure HTML5 redirection for Internet Explorer? or is there any other kind of setting in IE for HTML5 that can help in this issue?

Thanks,

Javier