Policy

Configure H.264/AVC hardware encoding for Remote Desktop Connections

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryWindows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Remote Session Environment
Supported onAt least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting lets you enable H.264/AVC hardware encoding support for Remote Desktop Connections. When you enable hardware encoding, if an error occurs, we will attempt to use software encoding. If you disable or do not configure this policy, we will always use software encoding.

Internal name
TS_SERVER_AVC_HW_ENCODE_PREFERRED
Policy ID
8dd7152ec222
Elements
0

Registry values

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Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\AVCHardwareEncodePreferredREG_DWORD
1
0

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