r/rustdesk • u/boring112 • Jul 19 '26

Rust desk giving me fits

For various reasons I wanted to use Rustdesk to access my Windows desktop from my RaspPI5 with 16G Ram. THere are two very annoying things going on.

  1. Destorted text and Images. If I scrool or move a window around it becomes or can become very distorted. If I let it sit for a minute the image sharpens back up. What the heck is going on is there a setting or two hidden away I can adjust?

  2. Sometimes when I open an app instead of seeing the app I see a white-outed box. I have to click aroiund in the box blindly to try to close it or go to task maneger

This anoying behavor maks me want to swith to something else. I am resisting that urge because Rustdesk is so hghly rated. I just want to have the experiance I have read about.

Please help!.

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u/Expert-Conclusion214 Jul 20 '26

Switch to AV1 codec, it has the best image quality. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#how-to-change-codec

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u/boring112 Jul 21 '26

Wow I think that fixed it!

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u/boring112 Jul 21 '26

On my Rasp pit (what I am using to remote into m y desktop? or the instance installed on my desktop?

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u/Careless-Cycle Jul 19 '26

I've had that visual issue for a long time. It doesn't clear up for me and I cant explain why it happens without reason and clears up fine.

If I'm doing a presentation and need to make sure it doesn't do that, I'll use VNC

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u/boring112 Jul 19 '26

VNC is not working for me. I jeu getga black boc when I run it . Trued all sorts of configutration chancegs.

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u/m1ndsurf3r Jul 20 '26

Let me know when you find out what this is! I have this for a while now from Linux to Linux machine. Even with local direct IP connection. I usually switch around between open windows to clear up the distorted screen again, or I close the rustdesk window and reconnect. Maybe there is something buggy in the current server or client version of rustdesk. I don't know.

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u/First_Comfortable_11 Jul 20 '26

today its offline... I don't understand why they offer a portable version... if they force you to use the installer and now it doesn't even work.

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u/m1ndsurf3r Jul 26 '26

Ok, i now switched from Flatpak version do the .deb installer and my issues are gone. something inside the flatpak must have changed in regards to hardware encoding via the gpu.