Retina/HiDPi Support on macOS Server

[MacBook1]

Hello,

We have been looking for a solid remote work solution for our macOS desktops and NoMachine seems to be winning in terms of latency. One issue we’re running into is that our retina/HiDPi displays are not being encoded at their native resolutions but instead at their scaled resolutions. This means that the client machine sees a much lower resolution or blurry picture. I have seen a couple other questions from a few years ago and was curious if this was still something being worked on. Thanks!

[serqetry]

I have been struggling trying to get a decent screen sharing solution between MacOS (server) and Linux (client).  NoMachine is the only thing that comes close, but the lack of retina support makes it still basically unusable.

I see multiple posts that are now closed, and mentions of a road map issue that are just a dead link now.

Is this ever going to happen?  It seems this was first brought up over 4 years ago on these forums.  What is the status of this?  Has it just been abandoned and everyone must make do with an extremely blurry image (or shrunken image) when connecting to a MacOS server?

[Britgirl]

It certainly is not abandoned, we have had other priorities, mainly NoMachine Network, for NoMachine 9. Developers are currently working on HiDPI support, so that NoMachine can capture the screen of the server at native pixel resolution on such displays.

A note about the links you mention, you should see a page informing you that our road map is no longer in the public domain when you click on a feature request link.

[serqetry]

Ok, good to hear, and thank you for the response.  I’ve tried several other remote desktop solutions but none of them work anywhere near as well as NoMachine… other than it looking like I have vaseline on my eyeballs.  I hope it won’t be too much longer!

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