Possible Dumb Question - Can you play games on Windows 2003 Server?

[gr1]

Game is Red Alert 2 from the Command and Conquer series..

i can't see why not.. but i'm sure ms would have some kinda problems

thoughts??

anyone tried this?

 

[gr1]

anyone?

 

[Cal166]

yes you can...

Edit: Why terminal server?
Edit2: I guess it is a really dumb question since no one has replied...

 

[thirdeye]

Have you EVER tried to play any game on terminal server? Unless you have a HUGE amount of bandwidth it's not gonna work well at all.

 

[Rapidskies]

You could play on the console but running a game in a terminal server session isn't going to fly.

 

[NogginBoink]

You can play games on W2K3.

You can't (realistically) play games through a terminal server session. DirectX through a TS session just won't work.

 

[phisrow]

Gaming over RDP isn't going to fly. Server 2003 is a perfectly decent workstation OS, though.

 

[gr1]

why wouldn't directx work over a ts session?

 

[AStar617]

Terminal sessions work because there is comparably little info on the screen that is updated often. Thus the bandwidth requirements are not usually high. With a game, you'll be in redraw hell. I've opened Guild Wars over VNC to quickly show something to someone but its very very far from "playable".

Wrong forum, btw.