Why is DirectX and Graphics Acceleration disabled on Windows Server 2003?

Standard Toaster · 20-04-2005 07:23PM #1

Why is DirectX and Graphics Acceleration disabled on Windows Server 2003?
Surely having them enabled wouldn't effect performance that much?
Or would it?

/confusezzzzed

po0k · 20-04-2005 07:25PM

Windows Server 2003

Standard Toaster · 20-04-2005 07:30PM

Yeah I know mate but I just found it strange.
Seems the sound service is disbaled by default too (Enterprise)

Capt'n Midnight · 20-04-2005 08:14PM

But they leave the wireless stuff enabled :rolleyes:

Standard Toaster · 20-04-2005 08:16PM

Has that changed with SP1?

Capt'n Midnight · 20-04-2005 10:44PM

No way I'm putting SP1 on a production server till it's proven to be stable.

aidan_walsh · 20-04-2005 10:48PM

The_Edge wrote:

Why is DirectX and Graphics Acceleration disabled on Windows Server 2003?

I think the better question would be why are they installed on Windows Server 2003?

rsynnott · 22-04-2005 03:48PM

They're disabled because that's only sensible for a server. You don't want to add additional senseless points of failure. And what on EARTH would you use them for? Who knows why they're there... It seems strange to include things for idiots to turn on...

Capt'n Midnight · 22-04-2005 05:11PM

rsynnott wrote:

They're disabled because that's only sensible for a server. You don't want to add additional senseless points of failure. And what on EARTH would you use them for? Who knows why they're there... It seems strange to include things for idiots to turn on...

Just shows how similar the code is, and that most of the price difference between Windows HOME and Windows ENTERPRISE is down to licencing rather than real technical improvements.

Also IMHO shows that they couldn't have had a proper design walk through.

Anyone know if the IPSEC hang on reboot is fixed ?

rsynnott · 22-04-2005 05:45PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Just shows how similar the code is, and that most of the price difference between Windows HOME and Windows ENTERPRISE is down to licencing rather than real technical improvements.

Also IMHO shows that they couldn't have had a proper design walk through.

Anyone know if the IPSEC hang on reboot is fixed ?

This was my first thought (this was CERTAINLY the case with Win2000); however as far as I know they've never produced a consumer OS based on the Win2003 kernel. Unless it's the same OS as WinXP (I use neither often, so don't know much about it). In which case, why the different names?

rsynnott · 22-04-2005 11:47PM

doggiepaw wrote:

hehe, no way I'm putting you in charge of my servers till you're proven to be stable

In Soviet Russia, server crashes you :rolleyes:

Why is DirectX and Graphics Acceleration disabled on Windows Server 2003?

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