RDP relative mouse movement support Urgently needed

JP 31

I'm in real need of relative mouse movement support over RDP.

No, it's not for first person shooter games.

It is for production. My Architectural Cad software uses relative mouse movement to navigate around the model. When entering the walk-through mode, the viewpoint is not controllable. It moves so very fast in many directions. I also have 3D viz software with the same issue.

Also, I have dedicated machines to do production, but when doing a presentation in the conference room , I need to use RDP to connect to the more powerful machine.

Also, now working from home because of Covid-19, I really need a solution. People have suggested using 3rd party apps such as Terecredi and Parsec. I would rather not.

I think Microsoft should provide an option for Relative Mouse support for RDP. It could be a toggle setting if that is necessary.

I hope someone from Microsoft replies and takes this request seriously. RDP usage has grown by a huge amount and I hope you are up to the task of meeting our evolving needs.

Many thanks,
JP

Eric Burbeck 1 Reputation point

2022-01-11T20:21:56.987+00:00

I know you say you'd rather not, but try using a different RDP client. I had this issue in a multi-nested scenario: attempting to RDP to a corporate machine from within my Windows 11 ARM desktop, which was running via Parallels in Mac OS on my Macbook Air M1. Both the MS RDP client that ships with Windows 11 and the MS RDP app from the Windows store had horrible problems with the mouse cursor moving 3-4x faster than on my "local" Win11 desktop. I then installed mRemoteNG and found that the cursor in my remote session moves at the same rate as on my "local" desktop. Problem solved!

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Jenny Yan-MSFT 9,341 Reputation points

2021-01-21T03:14:34.837+00:00

Hi,
Please note remote desktop only supports sending / using absolute input modes instead of relative mode. When an application that uses relative modes tries to interpret the Remote desktop mouse input - the result is that you will get very large vectors.

But per searching, someone is investigating on this behavior and shared some workarounds to improve RDP's support on relative mouse movement.

Details could be found in below link:
Erratic mouse movement in 3D games over RDP with RemoteFX
https://superuser.com/questions/849918/erratic-mouse-movement-in-3d-games-over-rdp-with-remotefx

Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful.

Thanks,
Jenny
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JP 31 Reputation points

2021-01-21T12:44:02.76+00:00

I saw that article long ago. It hasn't worked for me and I'm asking Microsoft to make a change to make this an easy option to enable or toggle if required. It should work when the person is connecting to a PC from a remote PC or Mac. I don't want to start programming active x controls. That's Microsoft's job. Thanks for posting a possible solution, but it is not the answer.

JP 31 Reputation points

2021-01-21T12:45:54.207+00:00

Also there is this, but no real clue as to how to implement it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/termserv/imsrdpclientadvancedsettings6-relativemousemode

Jenny Yan-MSFT 9,341 Reputation points

2021-01-22T01:58:24.677+00:00

Hi,
Thanks for the response but if you need assistance for code part, it is suggested to separate new thread on code review or advice in relevant forum from the Homepage of
Q&A.

Thanks,
Jenny

JP 31 Reputation points

2021-01-22T02:00:44.85+00:00

Thanks but how about just having Microsoft put this on their "to do" list and add the feature to RDP?

AJ 1 Reputation point

2022-07-02T20:13:22.11+00:00

you kidding right?
That question was asked 7 YEARS AGO!!!
and interestingly still no action from Microsoft
isn't this like one of the easiest things you could implement into MSRDP???

AJ 1 Reputation point

2022-07-03T12:56:32.883+00:00

PS. VNC Viewer (The Client App) has the exact thing implemented already
if you could just copy that may be from an open-source version of VNC that would be ok too

AJ 1 Reputation point

2022-07-04T16:03:55.99+00:00

I found somewhat of a solution in Github
RemoteRelativeInput

It Might help to solve the problem for now
also, the instructions in the readme aren't that good, check "For those who want to use this app" on the issues tab for a better explanation

JP 31 Reputation points

2023-12-30T16:20:31.5566667+00:00

Sorry, forgot to comment on this ages ago as I had just given up. I still would like this for 3d navigation in ARchicad. Epic Twinmotion 3d navigation works just fine in RDP so perhaps it is something the software vendor needs to sort out. Still, if there was a command line switch I could add to my RDP connection, it would be most helpful.
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