Pro Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) provide support for Citrix HDX and HDX 3D Pro with AMD APUs for Moonshot

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provide support for Citrix HDX and HDX 3D Pro with AMD APUs for Moonshot -

Citrix XenDesktop with HDX and HDX 3D standard a exceptional user experience with high-quality multimedia and graphics

While most user graphics and application requirements are good with HDX standard HDX 3D Pro are ideal needs supports higher end application treated as those that use OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL and newer versions of DirectX 11

the emergence of new "physicalized" offers

as Hosted desktop Infrastructure (HDI) on the HP platform, the Moonshot model is supplied to change for virtual desktops today. On the basis of AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), HP Moonshot a dedicated, non-virtualized platform provides both a CPU and GPU per user.

This document is intended to describe the HDX support model for HP Moonshot platform with AMD APUs and answer frequently asked questions an IT professional when using XenDesktop considering 7.1, 7.5 and 7.6 on the HP Moonshot CS100 for HDX 3D Pro XenDesktop. running

In XenDesktop 7.1, 7.5, and 7.6 of both standard and HDX HDX 3D Pro Support HP Moonshot platform AMD APUs. The matrices below are designed to explain various usage models requirements and known technical problems.

This entire support statement with the applied for easy viewing tables can be downloaded in PDF format here.

Table 1

HDX Support Matrix for HP Moonshot with AMD APU technology

VDA Graphics Citrix VDA Supported versions HP Moonshot Supported Windows OS AMD driver requirements
HDX Standard Direct graphics rendering.DirectX 9, 10 and up to level9_3 11feature. Please refer to the FAQ section below for details and this blogfor more information. XenDesktop 7.1, 7.5 and Citrix 7.6Fully optimized solution for XenDesktop on HP Moonshot support. Users must install a hotfix from Citrix to enable optimization for XenDesktop 7.1 and 7.5. Please note CTX140923 for x86 and x64 CTX140924 for hotfix. Now included for XenDesktop 7.6 in this hotfix in standard VDA is Windows 7 x64 New AMD Catalyst package 14.301.1001-140915a-176768C-HP-WHQL.exeNote. This package temporarily available through Share File until the HP m700 Pageis updatedPrevious release of AMD Catalyst package: AMD Catalyst package 13.0.0.09 December 2013
HDX 3D Pro Direct Graphics renderingDirectX 11, OpenGL, OpenCL and WebGL supports XenDesktop 7.1, 7.5 and 7.6Architecture Citrix, with limitations. See Table 2 (below) for details Windows 7 x64 New AMD Catalyst package 14.301.1001-140915a-176768C-HP-WHQL.exeNote: This package is temporarily available at Share File until HP m700 page is updated. for HDX 3D Pro only please 14.301.1001-140915a-176768C-HP-WHQL Catalyst package use.

Table 2

HDX 3D Pro Requirements and known limitations of the HP Moonshot with AMD APU technology

tested is associated with
issue edition / limitation Description solution / Notes
screen resolution only standard screen resolutions are recommended (eg 1080p and 720p). Standard refers to resolutions listed by Windows in the Screen Resolution window. If you are using 7.1 or 7.5, you can use the AMD utility tool that is provided for your convenience, but is not officially supported by AMD. Users can create custom resolutions with this tool. For XenDesktop 7.6 users natively custom resolutions AMD Utility tool supports without using. XenDesktop 7.1 and 7.5 users will use require use of their desktop session AMD. Users need to HDX 3D Pro session, you run to connect the utility, and then reconnect disconnect to use the new custom resolution.
monitor support single monitor available at this time for HDX 3D Pro. This was only the new AMD driver and XenDesktop 7.6 HDX 3D Pro VDA. Requires new AMD Catalyst package 14.301.1001-140915a-176768C-HP-WHQL.exe
OpenGL Resolution changes applications or OpenGL use DirectX, try to change the screen resolution while it is in the full-screen mode do not. This behavior, which typically with games and not business and productivity applications. full-screen applications are not supported at this time with AMD GPUs
Aero Support Aero visual effects not supported on Windows 7 and can affect a high CPU performance. FAQ, see

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Where can I learn more about HDX v. HDX 3D Pro?

Citrix developed a comprehensive whitepaper detail HDX protocol.

  • Where can I learn more about HDI on Moonshot?

Please visit dedicated Moonshot HP page for more information HDI supplied by HP and AMD.

  • Is HDX standard support DirectX?

Yes. HDX-standard does not support DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 and up level9_3 support to offer DirectX / 11th see more information about DirectX for this link.

  • Is HDX standard support OpenGL and OpenCL?

No. not supported HDX standard OpenGL and OpenCL only HDX 3D Pro supports Open GL and Open CL

  • How can I run OpenGL, OpenCL and DirectX 11 feature 10_0 and with more applications on HP Moonshot AMD APU technology?

In support of applications using OpenGL, OpenCL or DirectX 11 feature level 10_0 and above, install the HDX 3D Pro VDA.

  • When I'm with XenDesktop 7.1 or 7.5 HDX 3D all problems I have occur Pro VDA can?

Yes with XenDesktop 7.1 and 7.5 HDX 3D Pro VDA you can see a black screen appear as below when registering. Please To solve this, the corresponding hotixes for x64 systems and x86 systems.

Note that you can also use this black screen occur if you have disabled a version of used WinPE, which is newer than 3.0 as Microsoft 8dot3 naming. For more information, see CTX131796

  • I am with XenDesktop 7.1 or 7.5 HDX 3D Pro VDA with appropriate hotfix and see this black screen border , Is this to be expected?

Yes. The black screen is resolved with the AMD Catalyst package 14.301.1001-140915a-176768C-HP-WHQL.exe and only 7.6 HDX 3D Pro VDA XenDesktop.


  • What is the installation procedure for HDX 3D Pro for Moonshot with AMD?
  1. The HP Moonshot chassis manager sure you have all nodes activated or those that specifically take advantage of the new 1.8 GHz function for HDX 3D Pro.
  2. hpiLO-> set node options CPU 1.8GHz all
  3. Install Windows OS and Windows patchesInstall the corresponding AMD drivers mentioned above in Table
  4. installing the XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro VDA for either 7.1 or 7.5 or 7.6
  5. for 7.1 or 7.5 install either VDA update for x86 or x64 an RDP session.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX140263

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX140262

for 7.6 install only the HDX 3D Pro VDA than the hotfix above are only 7.1 and 7.5. needed No further updates

. Note:. The HDX standard VDA Citrix hotfix in the table above for HDX 3D Pro

found no application

  • Can I run Windows Aero Windows 7 on the HP ProLiant use m700 and it affect the performance?

Yes. In XenDesktop 7.1, 7.5 and 7.6, you can enable m700 Moonshot Aero on HP ProLiant. However, this requires to disable the mirror driver, which reduces CPU impact on performance, users can make HDX experience. Be careful and understand the impact on performance when using the mirror driver or Windows Aero.

Consult disable the following registry key display mirror driver.

  • [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARECitrixHDX3DBitmapRemotingConfig] "HKLM_EnableMirrorDriver" = dword: 00000000

This will then enable Aero functionality on Windows 7

Enable Aero theme

Verify , Aero functionality


  • What are the supported modes for resolutions that can be used with the new AMD Catalyst package?

All modes support 60Hz. 1920 × 10 also supports 30Hz as indicated below:

  • 2048 × 1536
  • 2048 × 1080
  • 1920 × 1440
  • 1920 × 10 30Hz / 60Hz
  • 1920 × 1080
  • 1680 × 1050
  • 10 × 10
  • 10 × 00
  • 1440 × 1080
  • 1440 × 00
  • 1400 × 1050
  • 1366 × 768
  • 1280 × 1024
  • 1280 × 960
  • 1280 × 800
  • 1280 × 768
  • 1280 × 720
  • 1152 × 864
  • 1024 × 768
  • 1024 × 0
  • 800 × 0
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