How does device discovery work with the PCoIP Management Console 2.x and 3.x?
The PCoIP Management Console must discover all of the PCoIP devices that it manages and therefore supports the discovery of devices using three mechanisms: DHCP Option discovery DNS DNS Service Record Discovery DNS-Based Discovery Prefix Manual Discovery …
No audio when using Unified Communications with a USB headset
Problem Some users have reported no audio when using Unified Communications solution in firmware 4.7.0, they can only hear the ring of the incoming call and when the call is answered there is no Rx/Tx audio.   Cause This issue has been tracked down to the …
The VMware Horizon View PCoIP server logs show "IPC Can't encode. Waiting. queue" after a random disconnect.
Problem The VMware Horizon View Client or PCoIP Zero Client experience a random disconnect from the VMware Horizon View session. Inspection of the PCoIP server logs show a high slice rate count after a random disconnect. The following example shows 192 …
PCoIP Performance monitor counters are not available with the PCoIP Standard Agent and Graphics Agent.
If the PCoIP performance counters are not available in Windows Performance monitor when a user is in session please check the Performance Counter DLL Host service is running. The service may need to be set to automatic from manual startup. Once the …
Can a WAN accelerator be used to improve the performance of PCoIP sessions?
PCoIP does not benefit from a WAN accelerator, legacy WAN accelerator solutions use different methods to improve the performance of applications operating over congested networks. These methods include compressing packets, implementing proxy servers that …
Why is Adobe Flash choppy with VMware Horizon View and PCoIP Zero Clients?
Answer: Note: This article only applies to VMware Horizon View desktops that do not have physical GPU acceleration. To optimize the performance of Flash, ensure that the Flash player has hardware acceleration turned off: Right click on the Flash window …
Should I configure "Maximum Initial Image Quality" to 100 if I want lossless still image?
No. Regardless of PCoIP image-quality settings, still images are always lossless. The time it takes to display them depends on your image-quality settings and available network bandwidth. For most situations, it is recommended to use 40 for Minimum Image …
What does "IPC: Frame encode took xxx ms so far. Dropping down the quality to index x." in the log files indicate?
Answer: In this case, the imaging encoder has determined that too many bits were being sent in the upper portion of the frame (i.e. flooding) which causes the frame to take longer to encode, and therefore appears unresponsive to the user (> 750 ms to …
Will out of order packets impact a PCoIP session?
PCoIP will work when packets are becoming out of order between the two PCoIP endpoints. Re-ordering packets on PCoIP endpoints requires that packets are held in a queue/buffer while waiting to receive the packets that need to be put back into order.  With …