Flash Player Performs Poorly for Win2003 Terminal ServerClients - Macromedia Flash Player

[ult_netsupport]

We are currently experiencing problems viewing websites which contain large
amounts of Flash content or Flash animation on our Win2003 Terminal Server
Clients.

When a website is opened containing Flash content with a terminal server
client, users are experiencing severe lag and almost complete loss of keyboard
and mouse control. Upon running network monitoring software, we have discovered
that terminal server clients are using as much as 10Mb of bandwidth whilst
viewing sites containing large amounts of Flash content. During normal use,
most of our terminal server clients are using no more than 45-50Kb of bandwidth.

As most of our terminal server clients are limited to a 256Kb connection or
less, users are left with an almost unusable terminal until the Flash content
finishes playing or the website is closed.

I realize that the way the screen is rendered in a terminal server session may
be contributing towards the problem, however is there any way that Flash Player
can be configured to optimize its performance for terminal server use?

Thanks in advance,

[stonneway]

This is more a "feature" of terminal server. We have the same here with Flash
content (when flash v8.0.24 decides to work) along with other dynamic content.

Terminal server has a relatively low update speed, and only updates the moving
parts of the screen (or rather the changed parts of the screen). As a result,
it has problems keeping up with moving images or animations.

We counter this here by advising people to browse flash sites locally if
possible (some users use thin clients so its not possible), and to change the
default home page to something like google which has no flash on it. We spent
ages dealing with new users complaining that "the internet is slow" when in
actual fact is was the flash adverts on the MSN home page slowing down their
session.

As far as I'm aware theres no real solution to this, as its just the way that
Terminal Services works which is making flash sites appear juddery and slow,
which in turns slows down all the session data over the internet (ie makes the
users mouse and keyboard stop responding). If you do find a solution, let me
know, coz i would love to hear it.

Olly