Nvidia broke my RDP!

25/08/2008 22:31 | Windows | 3 replies | 2495 views | RSS

After upgrading my Forceware Geforce drivers, I couldn’t connect to my machine via Remote Desktop. But instead of removing and reinstalling other older or beta drivers, someone over at Nvidia forums found out a simple fix. This is what he did:

Go to this key in your registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

And add this dword value under it: “SessionImageSize”=dword:00000020

Re and goboot! Boot and rego! ehrr …. reboot and GO!


  1. [...] reading several thousand “me too” posts on various forums, finally a solution to the nVidia ate my RDP [...]

  2. On 5 November 2008 at 17h43, anonymous wrote

    Hi there,

    Thank you for sharing this. I can confirm that this solution also solve this issue with 178.24 on 8800 GTS.

  3. On 18 February 2009 at 21h32, mark wrote

    Yep, same drivers also fix the 9800GTX.