Has anyone remotely controlled their desktop with Surface RT?

[TheAsbo]

Could it play games? I have a fairly powerful desktop that runs at a resolution of 1920x1200 and Windows 7 64-bit. Could I play something like Minecraft or XCOM: Enemy Unknown remotely with a mouse on a Surface RT? Would the different resolution be a problem? Is there a large delay or latency issue?
And what software would you use? Teamviewer or the built in Remote Desktop software?

 

[anon(123856)]

Yeah, I have used the built in app to remote into my laptop and it works very well. I used the desktop version, though. I haven't tried the metro app yet. It works in a similar manner to the regular Windows remote access app. I haven't played any games but I used it to run Firefox and web browse. It resized the desktop to fit on the Surface screen and over my local network, it flew. No lag or latency issues.

 

[Haxcid]

For playing games RDP is probably not the best choice. If you want to stream games to your RT from your PC then I would suggest Splash Top personal. I also suggest a wifi connection that does 300Mbps less than that and it can be a bit flakey.

 

[berty6294]

TeamViewer works incredibly but for games Splashtop works the best. Gotta be on the same network though.

 

[Racing Snake]

I RDP into my desktop all the time, basically to run some software I can't yet get on the tablet!
I use the built-in app, no issues at all and very reliable.

On the off chance I want to transfer files I'll use the other windows standard "mstsc"